Beyond Temporal Proximity: Explanatory World Models for Credit Assignment in Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2610.13504 · cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.IR · Submitted 2026-10-09 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.IR

Submitted: 2026-10-09

Updated: 2026-10-09

Terminology

• Credit assignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• World Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

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