arXiv:2609.36473v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Temporal abstraction via options can improve exploration in large environments. However, existing option discovery algorithms find subgoals that target...
By Akhil Bagaria, Anita De Mello Koch, George Konidaris
arXiv:2606. 03962v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Classical reinforcement learning (RL) typically seeks a deterministic policy that maximizes the expected sum of a scalar reward.
By Anthony GX-Chen, Ankit Anand, Gheorghe Comanici, Zaheer Abbas, Eser Ayg\"un, David Smalling, Shibl Mourad, Doina Precup, Andr\'e Barreto, Mark Rowland
Classical reinforcement learning (RL) typically seeks a deterministic policy that maximizes the expected sum of a scalar reward. Yet, modern applications such as language model fine-tuning or scientific discovery demand diversity.
arXiv:2601. 22496v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In offline goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (GCRL), hierarchical approaches decompose long-horizon tasks into high-level subgoal prediction and low-level action execution.
By Jinu Hyeon, Woobin Park, Hongjoon Ahn, Taesup Moon
The paper proposes a method for learning task-relevant representations in deep reinforcement learning by maximizing rollout total correlation, which captures the correlation among all learned representations and actions across entire trajectories. It introduces two complementary lower bounds—one generative and one discriminative—along with chunk‑wise mini‑batching to improve this objective, and also proposes an intrinsic reward derived from the learned representation to enhance exploration. Experiments on challenging image‑based simulated control tasks demonstrate improved sample efficiency and robustness to white noise and natural video backgrounds compared to leading baselines.
By Bang You, Huaping Liu, Jan Peters, Oleg Arenz
arXiv:2607. 08647v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As autonomous agents are increasingly deployed across diverse operational contexts, aligning their behavior with human intent demands reward functions that remain robust to such changes rather than overfitting to any single environment.
By Ali Larian, Qian Lin, Chang Zong Wu, Daniel S. Brown