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Unifying Count-Based Exploration and Intrinsic Motivation

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abstract

We consider an agent's uncertainty about its environment and the problem of generalizing this uncertainty across observations. Specifically, we focus on the problem of exploration in non-tabular reinforcement learning. Drawing inspiration from the intrinsic motivation literature, we use density models to measure uncertainty, and propose a novel algorithm for deriving a pseudo-count from an arbitrary density model. This technique enables us to generalize count-based exploration algorithms to the non-tabular case. We apply our ideas to Atari 2600 games, providing sensible pseudo-counts from raw pixels. We transform these pseudo-counts into intrinsic rewards and obtain significantly improved exploration in a number of hard games, including the infamously difficult Montezuma's Revenge.

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2026 1 2019 1

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Variational Proximal Policy Optimization

stat.ML · 2026-06-06 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

VP2O maps PPO to SVGD in a MoE architecture using functional kernels and expert orthogonalization, claiming +179 ELO on Codeforces and 32% token reduction on AIME for a 33B/4B model.

Neural Embedding for Physical Manipulations

cs.LG · 2019-07-13 · unverdicted · novelty 4.0

Generative model with normalized pairwise distance constraint discovers output space topologies from sparse data and outperforms GANs and VAEs by avoiding mode collapse.

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  • Variational Proximal Policy Optimization stat.ML · 2026-06-06 · unverdicted · none · ref 195 · internal anchor

    VP2O maps PPO to SVGD in a MoE architecture using functional kernels and expert orthogonalization, claiming +179 ELO on Codeforces and 32% token reduction on AIME for a 33B/4B model.

  • Neural Embedding for Physical Manipulations cs.LG · 2019-07-13 · unverdicted · none · ref 12 · internal anchor

    Generative model with normalized pairwise distance constraint discovers output space topologies from sparse data and outperforms GANs and VAEs by avoiding mode collapse.