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arxiv: 2606.05555 · v1 · pith:SCJG7VTSnew · submitted 2026-06-04 · 💻 cs.LG · cs.AI

Representation Learning Enables Scalable Multitask Deep Reinforcement Learning

Johan Obando-Ceron , Lu Li , Scott Fujimoto , Pierre-Luc Bacon , Aaron Courville , Pablo Samuel Castro This is my paper

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keywords representation learningmultitask reinforcement learningmodel-free RLpredictive representationsactor-critic methodscontinuous controlauxiliary tasks
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The pith

Predictive representation learning with auxiliary objectives suffices for scalable multitask RL even without planning.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper claims that the main driver of scalable multitask reinforcement learning is not planning or world models but the quality of learned representations. It demonstrates that a model-free actor-critic method using auxiliary predictive tasks achieves strong results across diverse continuous control benchmarks while lowering compute costs. A sympathetic reader would care because this simplifies training pipelines and questions the necessity of complex model-based components for multitask settings.

Core claim

The central claim is that combining predictive, model-based representations with high-capacity value function approximation is sufficient to achieve strong performance in multitask continuous control, even without planning. The authors introduce MR.Q, a simple model-free algorithm that incorporates auxiliary predictive objectives into an actor-critic architecture, and show it outperforms a recent world-model-based method as well as standard deep RL baselines while improving wall-clock efficiency and scaling with model capacity.

What carries the argument

MR.Q, a model-free actor-critic algorithm augmented with auxiliary predictive objectives that learns representations without explicit planning.

If this is right

  • Performance improves consistently as model capacity increases.
  • The approach reduces computational overhead compared to world-model methods.
  • Predictive representation learning proves critical through targeted ablations.
  • Strong results hold across a diverse suite of multitask continuous control tasks.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The result implies that future scaling efforts in RL could focus computational resources on representation learning rather than planning modules.
  • Similar auxiliary predictive tasks might transfer to discrete action spaces or partially observable environments.
  • If the pattern holds, simpler model-free pipelines could replace planning-heavy systems in resource-constrained multitask deployments.

Load-bearing premise

Auxiliary predictive objectives alone generate representations that support scalable multitask performance in the absence of planning or model-based control.

What would settle it

An ablation study in which removing the auxiliary predictive objectives produces no measurable drop in multitask performance on the same continuous control suite.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.05555 by Aaron Courville, Johan Obando-Ceron, Lu Li, Pablo Samuel Castro, Pierre-Luc Bacon, Scott Fujimoto.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Representation quality drives scaling perfor￾mance in model-free RL. We compare standard PPO with a variant augmented with model-based representations (+ MB. Representations) across four network sizes (Small, Medium, Large, X-Large) on HalfCheetah and Humanoid. A central challenge in deep RL is how to scale agents across tasks, model ca￾pacity, and data. Recent progress has been largely driven by model-bas… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Per-domain aggregate performance across all 10 MMBench domains. Average normal￾ized score of MR.Q (solid, teal) versus Newt (dashed, red) on state-based multitask benchmarks from MMBench [Hansen et al., 2026], spanning continuous control, manipulation, locomotion, and discrete game domains. MR.Q, a model-free agent with model-based representation learning, consistently matches or surpasses the model-based … view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Extended training performance (up to 50M environment steps). MR.Q sustains strong performance at scale, surpassing Newt, indicating that gains from structured representations persist beyond the low-data regime. Training for Longer. While our primary eval￾uation focuses on the low-data regime, it is im￾portant to assess whether the observed gains persist at larger interaction budgets. To this end, we evalua… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Pixel-based multitask learning curves across five domains. Average normalized score of MR.Q(solid) and Newt (dashed) using visual observations with a frozen DINOv2 encoder. MR.Q consistently achieves higher sample efficiency and final performance, demonstrating that its predictive auxiliary objectives yield better task-relevant representations in the high-dimensional input regime. Shaded regions denote 95%… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Performance comparison across benchmark suites. Per-domain aggregate performance for MR.Q, the encoder-free baseline (TD3), and Newt across four MMBench domains. Performance Comparison. We evaluate the performance of MR.Q alongside the encoder-free baseline (TD3) and Newt as shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: PCA visualization of multitask latent representations. Two-dimensional PCA projections of latent features extracted from multitask checkpoints trained on DMControl-Ext (left) and MuJoCo (right). Each point corresponds to an observation colored by task identity. MR.Q learns structured and well-separated task representations with substantially higher effective dimensionality (95%-d), whereas removing predict… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Empirical analyses for the effect of representation learning. Comparison of MR.Q against an encoder-free baseline (TD3). From left to right: aggregate return across task sets, state representation SRank, value loss, and dormant neuron fractions in the actor and critic. Overall, these results suggest that predictive representation learning not only improves representation geometry, but also preserves optimi… view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: (Left) Large-scale multitask training across 200 tasks. Normalized score throughout training on a combined benchmark of tasks spanning multiple domains. MR.Q consistently outper￾forms Newt during training, while both methods converge to similar final performance. Data and model scaling in multitask RL. (Middle) Data scaling: performance as a function of training data for different dataset sizes. (Right) Mo… view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Few-shot finetuning on held-out tasks. Average nor￾malized score across 28 unseen tasks during finetuning steps from a 10M-step multitask checkpoint. MR.Q achieves 50% higher zero￾shot performance and ∼13% advan￾tage throughout training. Scaling with Update-to-Data Ratio. We analyze how perfor￾mance scales as a function of the update-to-data (UTD) ratio, which controls the number of gradient updates perfor… view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Wall-clock efficiency. Normalized score as a function of wall-clock training time (hours) on five MMBench domains. MR.Q consistently reaches higher returns earlier than Newt, a model-based baseline that incurs substantial overhead from world-model learning and latent rollout generation. Shaded regions denote 95% CIs. All runs use a fixed budget of 10M environment steps. 6 Lessons and Opportunities Scaling… view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Scaling with UTD. Normalized score across five multitask suites. MR.Q benefits more from higher UTD than Newt, better data reuse. I PCA Analyses To further analyze the geometry of the learned multitask representations, we visualize latent features using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). We project latent representations extracted from trained checkpoints onto their top two principal components and color… view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: PCA visualization on DMControl-Ext. Two-dimensional PCA projections of multitask latent representations learned by MR.Q and the encoder-free baseline (TD3). Predictive representation learning produces substantially more structured and separated task representations. 23 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: PCA visualization on MuJoCo. Latent representations learned by MR.Q exhibit higher diversity and improved task separation compared to the encoder-free baseline (TD3), indicating more expressive multitask representations. J Compute Resources All experiments were conducted on NVIDIA A100 GPUs using distributed Slurm-based compute clusters. Most multitask experiments were trained on a single GPU with approxi… view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Atari per-game learning performance. MR.Q, a model-free agent augmented with predictive model-based representations, consistently matches or surpasses the world-model-based approach Newt across Atari tasks. Shaded regions denote 95% confidence intervals (CIs). 25 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_14.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Box2D per-game learning performance. MR.Q, a model-free agent augmented with predictive model-based representations, consistently matches or surpasses the world-model-based approach Newt across Box2D tasks. Shaded regions denote 95% confidence intervals (CIs). 26 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: DMControl per-game learning performance. MR.Q, a model-free agent augmented with predictive model-based representations, consistently matches or surpasses the world-model￾based approach Newt across DMControl tasks. Shaded regions denote 95% confidence intervals (CIs). 27 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: DMControl-Ext per-game learning performance. MR.Q, a model-free agent augmented with predictive model-based representations, consistently matches or surpasses the world-model￾based approach Newt across DMControl-Ext tasks. Shaded regions denote 95% confidence intervals (CIs). 28 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_17.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: ManiSkill per-game learning performance. MR.Q, a model-free agent augmented with predictive model-based representations, consistently matches or surpasses the world-model-based approach Newt across ManiSkill tasks. Shaded regions denote 95% confidence intervals (CIs). 29 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_18.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 19. Figure 19: MetaWorld per-game learning performance. MR.Q, a model-free agent augmented with predictive model-based representations, consistently matches or surpasses the world-model-based approach Newt across MetaWorld tasks. Shaded regions denote 95% confidence intervals (CIs). 30 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_19.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 20. Figure 20: MuJoCo per-game learning performance. MR.Q, a model-free agent augmented with predictive model-based representations, consistently matches or surpasses the world-model-based approach Newt across MuJoCo tasks. Shaded regions denote 95% confidence intervals (CIs). 0.0 2.5 5.0 7.5 10.0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.0 2.5 5.0 7.5 10.0 0.00 0.05 0.10 0.15 0.20 0.25 0.0 2.5 5.0 7.5 10.0 0.04 0.02 0.00 0.02 0.04 0.0 2.5 5.0… view at source ↗
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Figure 21. Figure 21: OGBench per-game learning performance. MR.Q, a model-free agent augmented with predictive model-based representations, consistently matches or surpasses the world-model-based approach Newt across OGBench tasks. Shaded regions denote 95% confidence intervals (CIs). 31 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_21.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 22. Figure 22: PyGame per-game learning performance. MR.Q, a model-free agent augmented with predictive model-based representations, consistently matches or surpasses the world-model-based approach Newt across PyGame tasks. Shaded regions denote 95% confidence intervals (CIs). 0.0 2.5 5.0 7.5 10.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 0.0 2.5 5.0 7.5 10.0 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.0 2.5 5.0 7.5 10.0 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 0.0 2.5 5.0 7.5 10.0 0.00 … view at source ↗
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Figure 23. Figure 23: RoboDesk per-game learning performance. MR.Q, a model-free agent augmented with predictive model-based representations, consistently matches or surpasses the world-model-based approach Newt across RoboDesk tasks. Shaded regions denote 95% confidence intervals (CIs). 32 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_23.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 24. Figure 24: Per-task finetuning performance on held-out environments. Learning curves during online finetuning from pretrained multitask checkpoints. MR.Q consistently achieves stronger zero￾shot initialization and faster adaptation across the majority of held-out tasks, indicating improved transfer and representation reuse. Shaded regions denote 95% confidence intervals (CIs). 33 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p… view at source ↗
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Scaling reinforcement learning (RL) to diverse multitask settings remains a central challenge. While recent advances in model-based RL achieve strong performance, they rely on planning and complex training pipelines, making it unclear which components are essential for scalability. We revisit this question and argue that the primary driver of scalable multitask RL is not model-based control, but \emph{representation learning}. In particular, we show that combining predictive, model-based representations with high-capacity value function approximation is sufficient to achieve strong performance, even without planning. We evaluate a simple model-free algorithm, MR.Q, coupled with auxiliary predictive objectives into a scalable actor-critic architecture. This approach outperforms a recent world-model-based method and a range of deep RL baselines across a diverse suite of multitask continuous control tasks, while significantly reducing computational overhead and improving wall-clock efficiency. We observe consistent improvements with increased model capacity and show through ablations that predictive representation learning is critical for performance.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript claims that scalable multitask deep RL is primarily driven by representation learning via auxiliary predictive objectives rather than model-based planning. It introduces the model-free actor-critic MR.Q, which combines these predictive representations with high-capacity value function approximation to achieve strong performance without planning, outperforming a recent world-model method and other baselines on multitask continuous control tasks while reducing compute; ablations are cited to show that predictive representation learning is critical and that performance improves with model capacity.

Significance. If the result holds after addressing isolation concerns, this would indicate that predictive auxiliary objectives suffice to learn useful representations for multitask RL, challenging the necessity of planning and complex world models. It would simplify training pipelines and highlight efficiency gains. The paper explicitly provides ablations on predictive objectives and capacity scaling experiments as supporting evidence.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and §4] Abstract and §4 (MR.Q description): the claim that auxiliary predictive objectives produce representations enabling scalable multitask performance (without planning) is load-bearing, yet MR.Q jointly optimizes the encoder, value head, and policy; the ablations do not isolate semantic representation quality from extra gradient flow through shared parameters (e.g., no frozen pretrained encoder or linear-probe accuracy on task quantities is described).
  2. [§5] §5 (Experiments and ablations): the reported outperformance over the world-model baseline lacks quantitative details, error bars, or task/dataset descriptions in the abstract, and the ablation tables do not control for whether predictive objectives merely regularize training versus genuinely improving downstream value approximation.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: states consistent improvements with model capacity but provides no specific metrics or scaling curves to quantify the effect.
  2. [§4] Notation: the integration of auxiliary predictive losses into the actor-critic objective could be clarified with an explicit combined loss equation.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for their constructive and detailed feedback. We address each major comment below, providing clarifications and indicating where revisions will be made to strengthen the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and §4] Abstract and §4 (MR.Q description): the claim that auxiliary predictive objectives produce representations enabling scalable multitask performance (without planning) is load-bearing, yet MR.Q jointly optimizes the encoder, value head, and policy; the ablations do not isolate semantic representation quality from extra gradient flow through shared parameters (e.g., no frozen pretrained encoder or linear-probe accuracy on task quantities is described).

    Authors: We acknowledge that the current ablations compare runs with and without the auxiliary predictive objectives but do not include a frozen-encoder control or linear-probe evaluation on downstream task quantities. These additional controls would more cleanly separate representation quality from the extra gradient flow through shared parameters. The existing results show that removing the predictive objectives consistently degrades multitask performance, which we interpret as evidence for their role in representation learning; however, we agree this does not fully isolate the semantic quality of the representations. In revision we will add an explicit discussion of this limitation in §4 and, space permitting, include a linear-probe analysis on a subset of tasks to provide stronger supporting evidence. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [§5] §5 (Experiments and ablations): the reported outperformance over the world-model baseline lacks quantitative details, error bars, or task/dataset descriptions in the abstract, and the ablation tables do not control for whether predictive objectives merely regularize training versus genuinely improving downstream value approximation.

    Authors: Quantitative results with error bars, statistical significance, and full task/dataset descriptions appear in §5 and the appendix; the abstract summarizes the high-level outcome. We will revise the abstract to include a concise quantitative statement of the performance gains. On the regularization concern, the predictive objectives are forward-dynamics prediction losses that supply structured, task-relevant features rather than generic regularization; the ablation tables show that these objectives improve value-function approximation across a diverse multitask suite, with gains that scale with model capacity. We will add a short paragraph in §5 clarifying this distinction and referencing the capacity-scaling results. revision: yes

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full rationale

The manuscript is an empirical RL paper that introduces the MR.Q algorithm, trains it end-to-end on multitask continuous-control benchmarks, and reports performance gains plus ablations. No mathematical derivation, uniqueness theorem, or first-principles result is asserted; the central claim is supported solely by experimental outcomes rather than by any equation that reduces to its own inputs by construction. No self-citations appear as load-bearing premises, no parameters are fitted on a subset and then relabeled as predictions, and no ansatz is smuggled via prior work. The derivation chain is therefore self-contained and non-circular.

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