activity
20242026
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10 papers

cs.AI2026

Emergence of Physical Intelligence via Controllable Information Production

Tristan Shah, Stas Tiomkin

Intrinsic Motivation (IM) aims to train agents without external rewards, enabling useful behavior to emerge from the agent's interaction with its environment alone. However, the do…

cs.AI2026

Multi-Agent Empowerment and Emergence of Complex Behavior in Groups

Tristan Shah, Ilya Nemenman, Daniel Polani +1

Intrinsic motivations are receiving increasing attention, i.e. behavioral incentives that are not engineered, but emerge from the interaction of an agent with its surroundings. In…

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…

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.AI2025

Learning telic-controllable state representations

Nadav Amir, Stas Tiomkin

Computational models of purposeful behavior comprise both descriptive and prescriptive aspects, used respectively to ascertain and evaluate situations in the world. In reinforcemen…

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…