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Don't Mask the Environment: Observation Supervision Changes How Agents Explore Under RL research paper by Amazon, 2026

Amazon · Sep 17, 2026 · Agents and evaluation · 0 citations · 42 upvotes · unverified

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Agent trajectories record what an agent does and what happens next.

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About this paper
Authors
Juzheng Zhang, Disha Makhija, Manoj Ghuhan Arivazhagan and 2 more
arXiv
2609.20715 · PDF
Citations
0, 0 influential · Semantic Scholar
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42 · Hugging Face
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