It's not clear where you are having difficulty - your title and most of your question text is at odds with the code you provide. However the following code fixes various errors and fills in missing code. It generates the answer you want and uses Memoize to optimise viterbi's performance by caching results for given arguments lists.

use strict;
use warnings;
use Memoize qw();

my $trans = {
    'end' => {M2    => 1},
    'M2'  => {I1    => 0.1, M1 => 0.3},
    'I1'  => {begin => 0.8},
    'M1'  => {begin => 0.2},
    };

Memoize::memoize ('viterbi');
print viterbi('end', 3);


sub viterbi {
    my ($state, $output) = @_;

    return $output == 0 ? 1 : return 0
        if $state eq 'begin';

    return 0
        if $output == 0;

    my $r = $output - 1;
    my $max;
    
    for my $yy (keys %{$trans->{$state}}) {
        my $value = $trans->{$state}->{$yy} * viterbi($yy, $r);
        
        $max = $value if ! defined $max || $value > $max;
    }
    
    return $max;
}

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Prints:

0.08

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True laziness is hard work

In reply to Re: how can i hold temporary values in a recursive function by GrandFather
in thread how can i hold temporary values in a recursive function by siskos1

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