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ASK in the Dark: Uncertainty-Gated LLM Assistance under Partial Observability

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arXiv:2607. 02686v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning agents operating under partial observability must act on incomplete information, making them natural candidates for guidance from small language models (SLMs) that carry broad reasoning priors.

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