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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 at arXiv tested these auxiliary-loss add-ons within a multi-timescale cortical hierarchy. The modules failed to improve performance despite training horizons of 50,000 steps. This suggests that simply adding metacognitive layers does not guarantee better agent autonomy.