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Thermodynamics of Reinforcement Learning Curricula

arXiv:2603.12324v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Connections between statistical mechanics and machine learning have repeatedly proven fruitful, providing insight into optimization, generalization, and representation learning. In this work, we follow this tradition by leveraging results from non-equilibrium thermodynamics to formalize curriculum…

Maximum Entropy Exploration Without the Rollouts

arXiv:2603.12325v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient exploration remains a central challenge in reinforcement learning, serving as a useful pretraining objective for data collection, particularly when an external reward function is unavailable. A principled formulation of the exploration problem is to…

A Geometrically-Grounded Drive for MDL-Based Optimization in Deep Learning

arXiv:2603.12304v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces a novel optimization framework that fundamentally integrates the Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle into the training dynamics of deep neural networks. Moving beyond its conventional role as a model selection criterion, we…