Empowerment

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In reinforcement learning and artificial intelligence, empowerment is a intrinsic motivation metric that quantifies the amount of control an agent has over its environment. It is defined as the mutual information between the agent’s actions and the resulting future states. By maximizing empowerment, agents are driven to explore environments where they can effect meaningful change, leading to more robust and adaptive behaviors without relying solely on external reward signals.

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Empowerment

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