One option scans the whole environment: Wayfarer enables temporally extended exploration
MarlosCMachado · x · 2026-10-05
Thread entry 4/9: Wayfarer enables temporally extended exploration with options that generate observations hard to obtain from the agent's perspective — in Private Eye, a single option lets the agent scan the entire environment. The prior entry summarizes the gains: general, outperforms DreamerV3, IQN, and Rainbow, while improving exploration, credit assignment, and transfer simultaneously.
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