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Minimal Witness Reinforcement Learning

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Briefings

This article introduces Minimal-Witness Reinforcement Learning (MWRL), a framework that identifies all minimal sufficient witnesses for computational outcomes rather than just one solution. The method uses credit assignment based on verifier feedback to recover entire witness families, scaling to large language models. Experiments show MWRL recovers most minimal witnesses, unlike standard RL which often returns redundant sets or single solutions.

Key points

• MWRL formalizes minimal-witness identification by computing credit for each proposal based on the loss of coverage if that proposal is removed from the union of certified proposals.
• The framework derives a value iteration planner and a policy gradient method that recover the entire family of witnesses and scale to large language models respectively.

Context

The problem of finding irreducible conditions sufficient to produce outcomes is central to computation and science, where standard RL methods often fail to identify all minimal witnesses. This work provides a unified approach to witness identification and recovery.

Limitations

Evidence is limited to experimental settings showing MWRL recovers most minimal witnesses; other methods return redundant supersets or single witnesses. No specific city, region, or country is identified in the source evidence.

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