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arxiv: 2606.21271 · v1 · pith:T37QEIBFnew · submitted 2026-06-19 · 💻 cs.LG

Reward-free Pretraining for Reinforcement Learning via Occupancy Coverage Maximization

Marco Prattic\`o , Pietro Novelli , Massimiliano Pontil , Carlo Ciliberto This is my paper

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keywords reinforcement learningreward-free pretrainingoccupancy measureexplorationsparse rewardsworld modelsnavigation tasks
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Pretraining by maximizing occupancy coverage with a resolvent world model yields more uniform exploration and faster adaptation to sparse rewards.

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

The paper establishes a reward-free pretraining method that optimizes state-space coverage through the occupancy measure, cast as entropy maximization, to create exploration policies that adapt quickly once sparse rewards appear. It implements this via ROVER, which estimates occupancies using a learned resolvent world model and adds a virtual sink state to encourage expansion into unseen regions without cycling. This approach targets settings like multi-task and continual learning where rewards are absent during pretraining. A sympathetic reader would care because standard intrinsic-reward methods often need reward access even in the pretraining phase, limiting their use when rewards arrive only later. The result is stronger initializations for downstream tasks in both tabular and pixel-based navigation environments.

Core claim

The paper claims that maximizing coverage of the occupancy measure via entropy, estimated through a resolvent world model and balanced by a virtual sink state, produces transferable exploration policies that achieve more uniform aggregate coverage and stronger initializations for downstream sparse-reward tasks than standard reward-free baselines.

What carries the argument

ROVER, which estimates the occupancy measure with a learned resolvent world model and introduces a virtual sink state to balance known-state coverage against expansion into unseen regions.

If this is right

  • Agents reach more uniform aggregate coverage of the state space during pretraining.
  • Downstream sparse-reward tasks receive stronger initial policies that adapt faster than those from standard reward-free baselines.
  • The method operates without evaluating or accessing the extrinsic reward during the pretraining phase.
  • The sink state prevents cyclic expansion-collapse dynamics that can arise in coverage-based learning.
  • The resolvent formulation bypasses direct density or entropy estimation difficulties.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

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

  • The same coverage objective might apply to continuous control domains if the resolvent model scales.
  • Pretraining of this form could reduce reliance on reward relabeling in meta-learning pipelines.
  • The sink-state device might transfer to other exploration objectives to stabilize learning dynamics.

Load-bearing premise

A learned resolvent world model can reliably estimate the occupancy measure for the coverage objective without any reward signal during pretraining.

What would settle it

An experiment in the same tabular or pixel-based navigation tasks where ROVER fails to produce measurably more uniform coverage or faster downstream adaptation than the compared reward-free baselines.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.21271 by Carlo Ciliberto, Marco Prattic\`o, Massimiliano Pontil, Pietro Novelli.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Effect of sink-state augmentation under an intentionally severe zero-buffer update in the multi-room [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Top: Behaviour of the resulting policy For each method, we sample 50 trajectories from a representative checkpoint during pretraining, selected either near full feasible state-space coverage or near the end of the pretraining window. Bottom: Samples collected during pretraining, we visualize the entire dataset collected by each method. 4.1 Behavior Induced by Reward-Free Objectives We analyze the behavior … view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: State-space coverage sample efficiency in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Snapshot of the Middle Room environment Maze. We experimented also in a Maze setting. In this case, the X = |108| and the horizon H = 128. Two Rooms and Multi Rooms. In the appendix, we extend our evaluation to other configurations: Two￾Rooms ( [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Snapshots of the Sparse Reward Maze environment. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Snapshots of the Sparse Reward Navigation environments. The agent is depicted as the red square, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Middle Room exploration during reward-free pretraining. We sample 50 trajectories from policy snapshots at initialization, two intermediate checkpoints, and the end of pretraining for ROVER and reward-free baselines. While several methods discover diverse states over training, their individual policies often collapse to localized occupancy; in contrast, effective transfer requires a final policy that broad… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: In the plots, the learning curve of DDPG using different policy initialization. The environment is [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Comparison of learning curves for DDPG and SAC initialized with ROVER. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Comparison of learning curves for DDPG versus DDPG initialized with ROVER in the multi-room [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Replay-buffer state-visitation heatmaps in the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Replay-buffer state-visitation heatmaps in the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_12.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Preliminary analysis on the sensitivity of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: In this plot, we show the learning curves using DDPG and DDP + ROVER in state-based (left) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_14.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Sparse rewards pose a central challenge in reinforcement learning, since agents receive no informative signal until they reach their goal. Intrinsic-reward methods address this issue by optimizing non-stationary objectives such as novelty, prediction error, or skill diversity, thereby injecting a supervision signal into the problem. While effective, these methods often require that the extrinsic (sparse) reward can be evaluated -- either online or during offline relabeling of the stored transitions. This limitation is particularly vexing for multi-task, meta-, and continual reinforcement learning, where agents' interactions with the environment are usually reward-free. In this work, we present a method to pre-train transferable exploration policies that rapidly adapt to sparse rewards at downstream task time. Our objective maximizes state-space covering for the occupancy measure, and can be framed in terms of entropy maximization. Its algorithmic implementation, ROVER, leverages recent advances on the operatorial formulation of RL to estimate occupancy with a learned resolvent world model, bypassing common hurdles associated with density and entropy estimation. ROVER further introduces a virtual "sink" state for unexplored regions, balancing coverage of known states with expansion into unseen ones and preventing cyclic expansion-collapse behavior during learning. In tabular and pixel-based sparse navigation tasks, ROVER produces more uniform aggregate coverage and stronger initializations for downstream tasks than standard reward-free baselines.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes ROVER, a reward-free pretraining algorithm for RL that maximizes coverage of the state-space occupancy measure by framing it as entropy maximization. The method is implemented via a learned resolvent world model that estimates occupancy without rewards, augmented by a virtual sink state to handle unexplored regions and avoid cyclic behavior. The central empirical claim is that, in tabular and pixel-based sparse navigation tasks, ROVER achieves more uniform aggregate coverage and yields stronger initializations for downstream sparse-reward tasks than standard reward-free baselines.

Significance. If the resolvent-based occupancy estimates are shown to be faithful, the work would provide a principled route to reward-free pretraining that sidesteps direct density estimation, leveraging operatorial RL advances. The virtual sink state is a concrete design choice that addresses a known failure mode in coverage objectives. However, the absence of any verification that the learned model recovers usable occupancy measures (especially in pixel regimes) limits the strength of the contribution at present.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and algorithmic implementation] Abstract and algorithmic implementation section: the central claim that ROVER optimizes the intended occupancy coverage measure rests on the learned resolvent world model producing accurate estimates from reward-free data alone. No ground-truth comparison (possible in tabular settings) or ablation measuring estimation error versus true occupancy is reported, so it remains possible that the objective actually optimized deviates systematically from the coverage measure asserted in the abstract.
  2. [Abstract] Abstract: the claim of stronger performance on navigation tasks is load-bearing for the paper's contribution, yet the abstract (and by extension the reported results) provides no quantitative metrics, error bars, or ablation studies on components such as the resolvent estimation or sink state. This prevents assessment of whether the reported uniformity and downstream gains are robust or statistically meaningful.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We appreciate the referee's insightful comments on our manuscript. We provide point-by-point responses to the major comments and outline the revisions we will make.

read point-by-point responses

  1. Referee: [Abstract and algorithmic implementation] Abstract and algorithmic implementation section: the central claim that ROVER optimizes the intended occupancy coverage measure rests on the learned resolvent world model producing accurate estimates from reward-free data alone. No ground-truth comparison (possible in tabular settings) or ablation measuring estimation error versus true occupancy is reported, so it remains possible that the objective actually optimized deviates systematically from the coverage measure asserted in the abstract.

    Authors: We agree with this assessment. Verifying the fidelity of the resolvent-based occupancy estimates is crucial. We will add ground-truth comparisons in tabular settings and ablations measuring estimation error against true occupancy in the revised manuscript to ensure the optimized objective matches the intended coverage measure. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the claim of stronger performance on navigation tasks is load-bearing for the paper's contribution, yet the abstract (and by extension the reported results) provides no quantitative metrics, error bars, or ablation studies on components such as the resolvent estimation or sink state. This prevents assessment of whether the reported uniformity and downstream gains are robust or statistically meaningful.

    Authors: The main text of the paper includes quantitative results with error bars from multiple seeds and some ablations. However, we acknowledge that the abstract would benefit from including key metrics. We will revise the abstract to report specific quantitative improvements in coverage and downstream performance. We will also expand ablations on the resolvent estimation and sink state in the main text if not already sufficient. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No circularity in derivation chain

full rationale

The paper defines its pretraining objective directly as entropy maximization over the occupancy measure for state-space coverage and implements it via a learned resolvent world model that draws on operatorial RL advances. No equations or steps are shown that reduce the claimed downstream uniformity or initialization gains to a fitted quantity by construction, nor does any self-citation chain serve as the sole justification for a uniqueness claim or ansatz. The central derivation remains independent of its own outputs and is presented as self-contained against the reported tabular and pixel navigation benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 1 invented entities

Abstract-only review limits visibility into parameters; the virtual sink state is an invented modeling device, and the resolvent estimation relies on standard operatorial RL assumptions.

axioms (1)
  • domain assumption Occupancy measure can be estimated via learned resolvent of the transition operator without reward signal
    Invoked in the algorithmic implementation paragraph to bypass density estimation.
invented entities (1)
  • virtual sink state no independent evidence
    purpose: Represents unexplored regions to balance coverage and expansion while preventing cyclic behavior
    Introduced explicitly in the method description; no independent evidence provided.

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