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Emergent temporal abstractions in autoregressive models enable hierarchical reinforcement learning research paper by Google, 2025

Google · Reasoning · Dec 23, 2025 · 5 citations · 62 upvotes · unverified

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This paper shows that autoregressive models can learn temporally-abstract actions within their internal representations to enable efficient hierarchical reinforcement learning.

By Seijin Kobayashi, Yanick Schimpf, Maximilian Schlegel and 12 more · arXiv 2512.20605 · PDF

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New summaryOct 26, 2026This paper shows that autoregressive models can learn temporally-abstract actions within their internal representations to enable efficient hierarchical reinforcement learning.
TopicOct 26, 2026Moved from Inference and efficiency to Reasoning.
CitationsSep 25, 2026A first count of 0 influential citations.
CitationsSep 25, 2026A first count of 5 citations.
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