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Self-Monitoring Modules Fail To Boost Agent Performance
Three self-monitoring modules provided no statistically significant benefit across 20 random seeds in predator-prey survival environments. Researchers tested these auxiliary-loss add-ons within a multi-timescale cortical hierarchy over 50,000 training steps. The failure suggests that simply adding metacognition as a plug-in does not improve RL outcomes. Practitioners should prioritize structural integration over isolated auxiliary modules.