The RLMM recovers ability parameters on peg-solitaire boards with up to more than 23 million states, where tabular MDP-MM estimation is impractical¶
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q2 i? On a 4×4 grid (9,336 states) and a 7×7 cross (23,475,688 states), the RLMM successfully recovers simulated ability parameters without fitting the MDP-MM baseline. → Wenqian Xu 2026
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Wenqian Xu 2026¶
Wenqian Xu, Feng Ji. (2026). Reinforcement Learning Measurement Model. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.09305 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2605.09305
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Scalability simulation on two larger boards; printed RMSE of log βj was 0.623 (4×4 grid) and 0.452 (7×7 cross), with true-versus-estimated plots "centered on the diagonal". The MDP-MM was not fit because a single tabular value function on the 7×7 board would contain roughly 1.8 billion values.
"AsshowninTable6,theRLMMsuccessfullyrecoversabilityparametersdespitethecomplexityofthese larger environments."
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The RLMM recovers ability parameters on peg-solitaire boards with up to more than 23 million states, where tabular MDP-MM estimation is impractical |
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The RLMM recovers ability parameters on peg-solitaire boards with up to more than 23 million states, where tabular MDP-MM estimation is impractical |
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