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When in Doubt, Plan It Out: Committed Small Language Model Deliberation for Reactive Reinforcement Learning

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arXiv:2606. 16995v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) policies often degrade in unfamiliar environments because they lack explicit deliberation.

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