Beyond Fixed Acquisition Functions: Temporal Difference Active Learning for Perturbation Discovery

arXiv:2610.22122 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-10-15 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-10-15

Updated: 2026-10-15

Comments: 41 pages, 8 figures (including appendices)

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Acquisition Function — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Active Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Temporal Difference Active Learning — 2× in this paper
• Adaptability — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Surrogate Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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