arXiv AI By Purab Seth, Neil Shah, Kunal Jha, Samuel J. Gershman, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Wilka Carvalho

Task diversity produces systematic transfer but inhibits continual reinforcement learning

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arXiv:2606. 00880v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Continual reinforcement learning aims to produce agents that learn not only to improve at their current tasks but also to adapt as task distributions change.

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Continual Reinforcement Learning with Neuroevolution

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