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When Do Intrinsic Rewards Lead to Exploration?

Paper recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-10-01 in cs.LG. Abstract reproduced from arXiv; link to the original below.

Published 2026-10-01 on arXiv · recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-10-02

Category: cs.LG · 机器学习 · first seen 2026-10-02

Abstract

Intrinsic rewards are designed to guide exploration in reinforcement learning by assigning value to an agent's experience, for example through prediction error or learning progress. However, maximizing these rewards need not produce the most informative experience available. We propose a formal criterion for exploration that compares policies by the counterfactual information they acquire: how wel

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