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Not all uncertainty is alike: volatility, stochasticity, and exploration

Adaptive decision-making in biological and artificial intelligence requires balancing the exploitation of known outcomes with the exploration of uncertain alternatives. Although prior work suggests that uncertainty generally promotes exploration, it has typically treated distinct sources of environmental uncertainty as equivalent. We consider environments with latent reward states that drift over time (volatility) and are observed through noisy outcomes (stochasticity). Both increase posterior u

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Published: 19 May 2026
Source: arXiv
Category: Research
Topics: Environment · Biotech
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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ethics.ai (19 May 2026), “Not all uncertainty is alike: volatility, stochasticity, and exploration,” evidence record 4072, https://ethics.ai/record/4072 (originally published by arXiv).

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