Building World Models from Intrinsic Motivation

arXiv:2611.13113v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the absence of extrinsic rewards or task supervision, human behavior is guided by intrinsic motivation---neural signals that drive curiosity, creativity, play, and other essential facets of intelligence. Intrinsic motivation plays an important developmental role in building robust world models that enable generalization and adaptation. Yet existing studies leave open how a broad range of intrinsic motivations interacts with world-model representation learning to support downstream control. This limits our understanding of which intrinsically c

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