We’ve found that adding adaptive noise to the parameters of reinforcement learning algorithms frequently boosts performance. This exploration method is simple to implement and very rarely decreases performance, so it’s worth trying on any problem.
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arXiv:2607. 29419v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In reinforcement learning, exploration with sparse and delayed rewards presents a significant challenge due to the limited feedback available for guiding the learning process.
arXiv:2606. 16590v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Exploration in deep reinforcement learning (RL) is commonly implemented as temporally uncorrelated white noise.
arXiv:2608. 15700v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Background: Distillation of training targets generated thru search/planning has proven useful in reinforcement learning, but search can take exceedingly long.
arXiv:2606. 05888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retry-based objectives such as pass@K and max@K optimize the best return obtained from multiple sampled trajectories, and recent work has shown that they can promote exploration without explicit exploration bonuses.
arXiv:2606. 03554v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Physical systems do not merely add noise to search processes; they impose constraints that generate structured correlations.
arXiv:2601. 19624v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-world reinforcement learning often faces environment drift, but most existing methods rely on static entropy coefficients/target entropy, causing over-exploration during stable periods and under-exploration after drift, and leaving unanswered the principled question of how exploration intensity should scale with drift magnitude.