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arXiv Machine Learning By Prabhjyot Singh, Majid Ghasemi, Mark Crowley

Training and Evaluating Ethical Reinforcement Learning Agents on Per-Episode Distributions

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arXiv:2608. 14642v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents trained on a single reward signal exploit the gap between the designed reward and the intended behavior.

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