Optimism Needs a Way Back: What Value an Agent Should Give a State It Did Not Know Existed, Why Every Located Guarantee Borrows Its Answer From a Reset, a Data Horizon or a Reference, and What That Leaves for Unknown Unknowns

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Mahendrakar, P. (2026). Optimism Needs a Way Back: What Value an Agent Should Give a State It Did Not Know Existed, Why Every Located Guarantee Borrows Its Answer From a Reset, a Data Horizon or a Reference, and What That Leaves for Unknown Unknowns [Preprint]. Life of Research. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23486150

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@misc{lor1192026,
  title        = {Optimism Needs a Way Back: What Value an Agent Should Give a State It Did Not Know Existed, Why Every Located Guarantee Borrows Its Answer From a Reset, a Data Horizon or a Reference, and What That Leaves for Unknown Unknowns},
  author       = {Pranay Mahendrakar},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Life of Research},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.23486150},
  url          = {https://lifeofresearch.com/preprints/119},
  keywords     = {reinforcement learning, unknown unknowns, optimism in the face of uncertainty, pessimism, safe exploration, irreversibility, offline-to-online reinforcement learning, growing awareness},
  note         = {LOR-00119}
}

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