2 papers
cs.AI2025
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…
cs.LG2025
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…