Compositional Behavioral Semantics for State Abstraction in Reinforcement Learning
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arXiv:2606.25357v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: State abstraction plays a key role in scaling reinforcement learning to complex but structured systems. In studying such systems, a wide range of behavioral structures have been studied in reinforcement learning, including value functions, invariants, bisimulation relations, and behavioral metrics. However, a general principle for determining what structures are provably preserved under state abstraction is still lacking. In this paper, we present a unified framework for defining and analyzing behavioral structures in reinforcement lear
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2606.25357v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: State abstraction plays a key role in scaling reinforcement learning to complex but structured systems.
- In studying such systems, a wide range of behavioral structures have been studied in reinforcement learning, including value functions, invariants, bisimulation relations, and behavioral metrics.
- However, a general principle for determining what structures are provably preserved under state abstraction is still lacking.
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