CoLLAs 2026: Michael Bowling challenges MDP foundations of continual reinforcement learning
apsarathchandar · x · 2026-09-15
In the first CoLLAs 2026 Day 1 keynote, Michael Bowling challenged the core foundations of Continual RL: are MDPs, optimal policies, and ergodicity assumptions holding the field back? The talk explored alternative foundations and new algorithms for ever-changing worlds.
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