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Efficient Exploration Is Enough

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 7, 2026 · UTC

This work introduces an alternative view of efficient exploration and studies its theoretical and empirical implications in the absence of extrinsic rewards. Specifically, we define efficient explorers as agents that prioritize generating generalizable experience, i.e., data that supports learning models capable of predicting and adapting across the environment. This allows us to analyze efficient exploration through the lens of prediction and generalization. Theoretically, we demonstrate that optimally efficient explorers naturally schedule their trajectories to visit the most informative and

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