2025
Deep RL Needs Deep Behavior Analysis: Exploring Implicit Planning by Model-Free Agents in Open-Ended Environments
Riley Simmons-Edler, Ryan Paul Badman, Felix Baastad Berg, Raymond Chua, John Vastola, Joshua Lunger +2
NeurIPS 2025poster
Understanding the behavior of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agents—particularly as task and agent sophistication increase—requires more than simple comparison of reward curves, yet standard methods for behavioral analysis remain underdeveloped in DRL. We apply tools from neuroscience and etholog…