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Overcoming Valid Action Suppression in Unmasked Policy Gradient Algorithms
Renos Zabounidis, Roy Siegelmann, Mohamad Qadri +3
In reinforcement learning environments with state-dependent action validity, action masking consistently outperforms penalty-based handling of invalid actions, yet existing theory…
cs.LG2026
SCALAR: Learning and Composing Skills through LLM Guided Symbolic Planning and Deep RL Grounding
Renos Zabounidis, Yue Wu, Simon Stepputtis +4
LM-based agents excel when given high-level action APIs but struggle to ground language into low-level control. Prior work has LLMs generate skills or reward functions for RL, but…