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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Convex-Concave Reinforcement Learning

Policy learning drives many of the most consequential and heavily-invested applications of reinforcement learning today. Yet the core optimization problem it rests on (maximizing expected return) is notoriously non-convex, even under a direct policy parameterization, and the field has largely responded by avoiding it:...

Shripad Deshmukh, Yaswanth Chittepu, Dhawal Gupta et al. · 0 citations
Jun 2026

Hierarchical Experimentalist Agents

HExA shows that learning through active experimentation can help agents discover useful knowledge, acquire reusable skills, and make efficient progress on novel long-horizon tasks.

Abhranil Chandra, Sankaran Vaidyanathan, Utsav Dhanuka et al. · 0 citations

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