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cs.LG2026
Generalised Bellman recurrence and three dualities in sequential decision-making
Fernando E. Rosas, David Hyland, Daniel Polani
What gives the Bellman equation its form? We show that the recursive properties of optimal value functions follow from three conditions: that the dynamics decomposes through suffic…
cs.AI2026
Safety from Honesty in a Disinterested AI Predictor
Yoshua Bengio, Oliver Richardson, Tomáš Gavenčiak +13
As AI systems become more capable, training procedures that optimize for downstream outcomes risk introducing implicit agency: goal-directed behavior that designers never specified…
cs.LG2026
Learning POMDP World Models from Observations with Language-Model Priors
Valentin Six, Frederik Panse, Mathis Fajeau +7
Whether navigating a building, operating a robot, or playing a game, an agent that acts effectively in an environment must first learn an internal model of how that environment wor…