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Visualizing the World Model in an Agent's Value Function
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arXiv:2610.14186v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Could model-free reinforcement learning algorithms actually be learning a model of the environment? In this work, we apply counterfactual interventions which hold everything about a state fixed, besides a targeted change, to explore if the value function of a Proximal Policy Optimization agent forms a world model of the Crafter environment. Despite only being trained to optimize reward, we discover that the value function learns concepts such as th
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