Is a Good Foundation Necessary for Efficient Reinforcement Learning? The Computational Role of the Base Model in Exploration

Dylan J. Foster, Zakaria Mhammedi, Dhruv Rohatgi. Is a Good Foundation Necessary for Efficient Reinforcement Learning? The Computational Role of the Base Model in Exploration. In Nika Haghtalab, Ankur Moitra, editors, The Thirty Eighth Annual Conference on Learning Theory, 30-4 July 2025, Lyon, France. Volume 291 of Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, pages 2026-2142, PMLR, 2025. [doi]

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