AI RESEARCH
The Terminal Representation in Reinforcement Learning
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2605.31289v1 Announce Type: cross Representation learning is a powerful tool for spatio-temporal abstraction within reinforcement learning (RL). Two well established approaches are through the successor representation (SR) and the default representation (DR). The SR encodes states by the future trajectories they induce, capturing information flow decoupled from reward. The DR builds on this by weighting trajectories with reward, integrating credit-assignment structure into the representation.