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most citedA Unified Bellman Equation for Causal Information and Value in Markov Decision Processes

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cs.AI2025

Goals and the Structure of Experience

Nadav Amir, Stas Tiomkin, Angela Langdon

Purposeful behavior is a hallmark of natural and artificial intelligence. Its acquisition is often believed to rely on world models, comprising both descriptive (what is) and presc…

physics.soc-ph2025★ 2 cited

Decentralized Traffic Flow Optimization Through Intrinsic Motivation

Himaja Papala, Daniel Polani, Stas Tiomkin

Traffic congestion has long been an ubiquitous problem that is exacerbating with the rapid growth of megacities. In this proof-of-concept work we study intrinsic motivation, implem…

cs.RO2025

Acoustic Wave Manipulation Through Sparse Robotic Actuation

Tristan Shah, Noam Smilovich, Feruza Amirkulova +2

Recent advancements in robotics, control, and machine learning have facilitated progress in the challenging area of object manipulation. These advancements include, among others, t…

cs.LG2025

EVAL: EigenVector-based Average-reward Learning

Jacob Adamczyk, Volodymyr Makarenko, Stas Tiomkin +1

In reinforcement learning, two objective functions have been developed extensively in the literature: discounted and averaged rewards. The generalization to an entropy-regularized…

cs.LG2025

Average-Reward Soft Actor-Critic

Jacob Adamczyk, Volodymyr Makarenko, Stas Tiomkin +1

The average-reward formulation of reinforcement learning (RL) has drawn increased interest in recent years for its ability to solve temporally-extended problems without relying on…

cs.LG2025

Bootstrapped Reward Shaping

Jacob Adamczyk, Volodymyr Makarenko, Stas Tiomkin +1

In reinforcement learning, especially in sparse-reward domains, many environment steps are required to observe reward information. In order to increase the frequency of such observ…