Vector Symbolic Policy Gradient
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arXiv:2608.18404v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We answer this question with Vector-Symbolic Policy Gradient (VSPG), a discrete-action actor that represents each action by a unit-norm hypervector and scores it by similarity to the encoded state. Under the standard softmax policy-gradient surrogate, we prove that its update is exactly advantage-weighted hypervector bundling followed by normalization, and therefore supports standard advantage estimators. We further show that each trained action hypervector is a fixed-size compressed kernel memory, storing an advantage-weighted kernel expansion
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.18404v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We answer this question with Vector-Symbolic Policy Gradient (VSPG), a discrete-action actor that represents each action by a unit-norm hypervector and scores it by similarity to the encoded state.
- Under the standard softmax policy-gradient surrogate, we prove that its update is exactly advantage-weighted hypervector bundling followed by normalization, and therefore supports standard advantage estimators.
- We further show that each trained action hypervector is a fixed-size compressed kernel memory, storing an advantage-weighted kernel expansion
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