The Geometry of Nonlinear Reinforcement Learning

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Autori principali: Milosevic, Nikola, Scherf, Nico
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author Milosevic, Nikola
Scherf, Nico
author_facet Milosevic, Nikola
Scherf, Nico
contents Reward maximization, safe exploration, and intrinsic motivation are often studied as separate objectives in reinforcement learning (RL). We present a unified geometric framework, that views these goals as instances of a single optimization problem on the space of achievable long-term behavior in an environment. Within this framework, classical methods such as policy mirror descent, natural policy gradient, and trust-region algorithms naturally generalize to nonlinear utilities and convex constraints. We illustrate how this perspective captures robustness, safety, exploration, and diversity objectives, and outline open challenges at the interface of geometry and deep RL.
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spellingShingle The Geometry of Nonlinear Reinforcement Learning
Milosevic, Nikola
Scherf, Nico
Machine Learning
Reward maximization, safe exploration, and intrinsic motivation are often studied as separate objectives in reinforcement learning (RL). We present a unified geometric framework, that views these goals as instances of a single optimization problem on the space of achievable long-term behavior in an environment. Within this framework, classical methods such as policy mirror descent, natural policy gradient, and trust-region algorithms naturally generalize to nonlinear utilities and convex constraints. We illustrate how this perspective captures robustness, safety, exploration, and diversity objectives, and outline open challenges at the interface of geometry and deep RL.
title The Geometry of Nonlinear Reinforcement Learning
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01432