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arXiv Machine Learning By Boyang Xu, Qing Zou, Siqin Yang, Hao Yan

Path-Coupled Bellman Flows for Distributional Reinforcement Learning

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arXiv:2605. 08253v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Distributional reinforcement learning (DRL) models the full return distribution, but existing finite-support or quantile-based methods rely on projections, while recent flow-based approaches can suffer from \emph{boundary mismatch} at the flow source or from \emph{high-variance} bootstrapping when current and successor noises are independent.

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