Self-Monitoring Needs Structural Integration
π‘Why add-on metacognition fails but integration recovers RL agent performance (d=0.62).
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What Changed
Add-on self-monitoring collapses to constants (confidence std <0.006), ignoring policy.
Why It Matters
Highlights that auxiliary self-monitoring harms or nullifies without integration, urging redesigns in agent architectures. May shift focus from add-on losses to pathway-embedded metacognition for robust RL.
What To Do Next
Integrate confidence-gated exploration into your RL agent's policy pathway for non-stationary envs.
Key Points
- β’Add-on self-monitoring collapses to constants (confidence std <0.006), ignoring policy.
- β’Structural integration improves non-stationary performance (Cohen's d=0.62, p=0.06).
- β’TSM-to-policy pathway drives most gains; overall no edge over no-modules baseline.
- β’Tested in 1D/2D partially observable predator-prey envs up to 50k steps.
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