A note on goal-based hierarchical RL
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arXiv:2609.14605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The agent-centric general value function (ACGVF) construction of \citet{tasse2026goal} lets the agent make two decisions that are normally imposed by the environment or agent designer: which goal to pursue and when to declare a goal as finished (in addition to choosing the action). This is a very general framework that subsumes almost all prior work on reinforcement learning, control and planning, as well as more general formalisms proposed in the cognitive sciences. However, it assumes the environment is fully observed, i.e., that the observatio
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.14605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The agent-centric general value function (ACGVF) construction of \citet{tasse2026goal} lets the agent make two decisions that are normally imposed by the environment or agent designer: which goal to pursue and when to declare a goal as finished (in addition to choosing the action).
- This is a very general framework that subsumes almost all prior work on reinforcement learning, control and planning, as well as more general formalisms proposed in the cognitive sciences.
- However, it assumes the environment is fully observed, i.e., that the observatio
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