4 papers
Using Reward Uncertainty to Induce Diverse Behaviour in Reinforcement Learning
Anthony GX-Chen, Ankit Anand, Gheorghe Comanici +7
Classical reinforcement learning (RL) typically seeks a deterministic policy that maximizes the expected sum of a scalar reward. Yet, modern applications such as language model fin…
Plasticity as the Mirror of Empowerment
David Abel, Michael Bowling, André Barreto +13
Agents are minimally entities that are influenced by their past observations and act to influence future observations. This latter capacity is captured by empowerment, which has se…
Optimizing Return Distributions with Distributional Dynamic Programming
Bernardo Ãvila Pires, Mark Rowland, Diana Borsa +6
We introduce distributional dynamic programming (DP) methods for optimizing statistical functionals of the return distribution, with standard reinforcement learning as a special ca…
Agency Is Frame-Dependent
David Abel, André Barreto, Michael Bowling +13
Agency is a system's capacity to steer outcomes toward a goal, and is a central topic of study across biology, philosophy, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence. Determini…