Temporal-Causal Inference for Reinforcement Learning via Automata Learning

arXiv:2609.07461 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-07 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-07

Updated: 2026-09-07

Comments: 9 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the 65th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, December 2026. Extended version

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

Terminology

• Reinforcement Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Causal Inference — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Temporal-Causal Inference for Reinforcement Learning — 2× in this paper

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