AI RESEARCH
Self-Monitoring Benefits from Structural Integration: Lessons from Metacognition in Continuous-Time Multi-Timescale Agents
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2604.11914v1 Announce Type: new Self-monitoring capabilities -- metacognition, self-prediction, and subjective duration -- are often proposed as useful additions to reinforcement learning agents. But do they actually help? We investigate this question in a continuous-time multi-timescale agent operating in predator-prey survival environments of varying complexity, including a 2D partially observable variant.