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Agents Explore but Agents Ignore: LLMs Lack Environmental Curiosity research paper by Cohere, 2026

Cohere · Apr 19, 2026 · Agents and evaluation · 8 upvotes 5 months ago

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LLM-based agents fail to exploit discovered unexpected information despite recognizing it, indicating a lack of environmental curiosity that depends on tools, compute, and training data distribution.

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Leon Engländer, Sophia Althammer, Ahmet Üstün and 2 more
arXiv
2604.17609 · PDF
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