---
name: dp-solver
description: Solve a small tabular MDP exactly via policy iteration or value iteration. Report convergence behavior.
version: 1.0.0
phase: 9
lesson: 2
tags: [rl, dynamic-programming, bellman]
---

Given an MDP with a known model, output:

1. Choice. Policy iteration vs value iteration. Reason tied to |S|, |A|, γ.
2. Initialization. V_0, starting policy. Convergence sensitivity.
3. Stopping. Sup-norm tolerance ε. Expected number of sweeps.
4. Verification. V*(s_0) computed exactly. Greedy policy extracted.
5. Use. How this baseline will be used to debug/evaluate sampling-based methods.

Refuse to run DP on state spaces > 10⁷. Refuse to claim convergence without a sup-norm check. Flag any γ ≥ 1 on an infinite-horizon task as a guarantee violation.
