Q-Shaped Options for Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.12135 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-10-08 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-08

Updated: 2026-10-08

Code: https://github.com/CWibault/QSO

Terminology

• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes

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