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A shallower agent learns to stop walking through walls
What changedHyperbolic goal-conditioned reinforcement learning matches maze geometry more closely, letting a 64-layer agent beat a 1,024-layer Euclidean alternative on hard navigation tasks. Choosing the right geometry cut training time by more than twelve times while producing routes that followed corridors instead of aiming through walls.
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Choosing the right geometry cut training time by more than twelve times while producing routes that followed corridors instead of aiming through walls.
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The comparison is limited to the evaluated navigation environments and does not prove the same advantage in physical robots.
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