arXiv Machine Learning By Elizabeth Bates, Chris Hicks, Vasilios Mavroudis

Beyond Rewards in Reinforcement Learning for Cyber Defence

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arXiv:2602. 04809v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in autonomous cyber defence agents trained to defend computer networks using deep reinforcement learning.

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