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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Exploration-Preserving Policy Optimization

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards improves reasoning, while the allocation of learning signal shapes which solutions remain accessible under repeated sampling. Group-relative objectives assign equal advantages to equally rewarded responses, making aggregate credit proportional to sampled mode frequency. We...

Hang-Zhan Jin, Mohammad Hamdaqa, D. Precup · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

From Connectivity to Rewards: Dense Reward Learning with Directed State Graphs

This paper introduces a state connectivity model designed to predict pairwise state connectivity strength in asymmetric environments, and transforms these connectivity strengths into scalar auxiliary dense rewards, providing continuous guidance across multiple hierarchical levels.

Shuyuan Zhang, Zi-Han Wang, Xiao-Wen Chang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

A Bellman Optimality Equation for Plasticity

Preliminary work toward optimizing plasticity within Markov decision processes is presented and it is shown that there exists a Bellman optimality equation for optimizing plasticity similar to previous work for empowerment.

Jeremy Lucas, D. Precup · 0 citations

Using Reward Uncertainty to Induce Diverse Behaviour in Reinforcement Learning

This work proposes a fundamental reformulation of the RL objective by replacing the scalar reward with a distribution over reward functions, and applying a non-linear objective over sets of actions, and develops a framework in which calibrated behavioural diversity emerges naturally, remains controllable through the re...

Anthony GX-Chen, Ankit Anand, Gheorghe Comanici et al. · 3 citations
Preprint Aug 2026

Analytic Planning under Uncertainty with Moment Closure

This work reduces target variance and yields well-calibrated predictive uncertainty under stochastic observations in continuous control, providing a principled framework for planning with learned distribution models.

Shishir Sharma, D. Precup · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Aug 2026

SIC-Agents: Benchmarking and Building an Adaptive Simulator for Pediatric Serious Illness Communication Training

This work introduces the first benchmark suite and simulation framework tailored to pediatric SIC training, and proposes SIC-Agents, a self-improving framework that generates a clinician-editable skill document to guide simulator behavior.

Zi-Han Wang, A. Slominska, Rennie Bimman et al. · 0 citations
Preprint Jul 2026

To Retain or to Adapt? Generalizing Continual Learning

This work formalizes CL as an online optimization problem governed by the interaction between environmental and learning dynamics, and introduces Transfer Efficiency as a quantitative measure of the tension between Instability, the bias inherited from conflicting past experience, and Transient Error, the optimization c...

Giulia Lanzillotta, Mandana Samiei, D. Precup et al. · 0 citations

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