arXiv — cs.AI preprintsInternational5 October 2026
Tactile Curiosity Drives Robot Interaction
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arXiv:2609.40134v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Mastering robot manipulation skills via reinforcement learning (RL) remains largely sample-inefficient. The most common RL algorithms rely on random action sampling to discover new strategies, resulting in agents that allocate most of their training budget to motions in free space, away from the contacts from which manipulation skills emerge. Existing intrinsic motivation methods based on model disagreement or epistemic uncertainty improve on isotropic noise, but they can also reward uncertainty in functionally irrelevant transitions, s
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