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When Do Options Help? Policy Necrosis and Redundant Coverage in Option-Critic

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arXiv:2609.05508v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Option-critic learns options: sub-policies together with a learned rule for when each one hands control back. Its headline result is that performance improves as options are added. We explain that result, with theory and experiment. First, the termina…

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  1. 2026-09-09 04:00 · arXiv cs.LG
    When Do Options Help? Policy Necrosis and Redundant Coverage in Option-Critic

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