Wayfarer learns control-centric representations: in Freeway it only learns to go up
MarlosCMachado · x · 2026-10-05
Thread entry 8/9: Wayfarer learns a representation considering only what's under the agent's control — in Freeway, instead of learning about cars, it naturally learns the game's only degree of freedom, and the agent simply learns to go up. This agent-centric representation is a key factor in the method's effectiveness.
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