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The Courage to Stop: Overcoming Sunk Cost Fallacy in Deep Reinforcement Learning

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Main Authors:	Liu, Jiashun, Obando-Ceron, Johan, Castro, Pablo Samuel, Courville, Aaron, Pan, Ling
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Machine Learning
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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