Towards Zero-Shot Task Transfer with Neurosymbolic World Models
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arXiv:2608.17959v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: State-of-the-art model-based reinforcement learning methods learn neural world models that allow policy improvement by planning in a latent space, without assumptions on the structure of the underlying environment. While expressive, these models are generally task-dependent: they learn uninterpretable latent representations that are tied to the training task and thus hard to generalize to new tasks. In this work, we present a novel world model formulation where the reward prediction only depends on a subset of structured, symbolic components of t
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.17959v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: State-of-the-art model-based reinforcement learning methods learn neural world models that allow policy improvement by planning in a latent space, without assumptions on the structure of the underlying environment.
- While expressive, these models are generally task-dependent: they learn uninterpretable latent representations that are tied to the training task and thus hard to generalize to new tasks.
- In this work, we present a novel world model formulation where the reward prediction only depends on a subset of structured, symbolic components of t
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