Artificial Intelligence · 01.09.2026, 15:03 UTC
Three Steps at a Time: Learning Representations from Action Sequences in Contrastive RL
| Schweregrad | info |
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| Kategorie | Artificial Intelligence |
| Quelle | arXiv cs.LG ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 01.09.2026 UTC |
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arXiv:2608.30640v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While self-supervised approaches to reinforcement learning have achieved strong results by learning representations of states and actions, a key open question is the time scale over which actions should be modeled. Departing from the standard formulation relying on single-step actions, we extend contrastive reinforcement learning (CRL), a prototypical self-supervised method, to operate over action chunks, and find that this results in large, pervasive gains across established offline and online benchmarks: +31.7% and +93.1% across 18 and 11 environments respectively. While action-chunking-driven gains are generally explained through the ability to model non-Markovian, temporally extended policies, and to propagate unbiased multi-step returns, interestingly, we find that these arguments only partially apply to CRL. Our empirical studies suggest that, in the context of CRL, an action chunk carries more information about the goal than a single action, measurably improving the critic's representations, and rendering the algorithm significantly more effective.
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