Annealed Softmax Greedy in Many-Armed Bayesian Bandits
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arXiv:2605.31034v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards and group-based policy optimization methods update a stochastic policy by sampling multiple completions per prompt and increasing the policy's probability on those with higher reward. These updates, unline the exploration mechanism in Thompson sampling and UCB, do not include explicit mechanisms that track epistemic uncertainty. This paper studies a stylized explanation for why such uncertainty-agnostic updates can nevertheless be effective. We analyze an annealed softmax policy that select
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- arXiv:2605.31034v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards and group-based policy optimization methods update a stochastic policy by sampling multiple completions per prompt and increasing the policy's probability on those with higher reward.
- These updates, unline the exploration mechanism in Thompson sampling and UCB, do not include explicit mechanisms that track epistemic uncertainty.
- This paper studies a stylized explanation for why such uncertainty-agnostic updates can nevertheless be effective.
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