Course thread: interventions get hard when states and actions are correlated
abursuc · x · 2026-09-17
A lecture thread from #ssad2026 on the challenge of interventions in an environment: once you intervene, the state and actions may become correlated. It frames two follow-up problems—how to enable and integrate interactivity in the state space, and how to represent the action space.
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