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cs.AI2025
Minding Motivation: The Effect of Intrinsic Motivation on Agent Behaviors
Leonardo Villalobos-Arias, Grant Forbes, Jianxun Wang +2
Games are challenging for Reinforcement Learning~(RL) agents due to their reward-sparsity, as rewards are only obtainable after long sequences of deliberate actions. Intrinsic Moti…
cs.LG2025
Action-Dependent Optimality-Preserving Reward Shaping
Grant C. Forbes, Jianxun Wang, Leonardo Villalobos-Arias +2
Recent RL research has utilized reward shaping--particularly complex shaping rewards such as intrinsic motivation (IM)--to encourage agent exploration in sparse-reward environments…