ResearchResearch paperRobotics & Embodied AI · Reinforcement Learning1 source · Oct 19, 2026

Train An Imaginative Agent

We introduce Agentic Imagination (Agima), a training framework that trains an agent to imagine before acting, i.e. to be imaginative.

Key points

  • A seemingly reasonable push in Sokoban can make the puzzle unsolvable.
  • To avoid such mistakes, an agent has to anticipate the consequences of its actions before execution, especially when feedback from the real environment is sparse or actions are irreversible.
  • This enables the agent to predict future outcomes and perform basic forms of imagination, such as forward thinking and counterfactual branching.
  • We then use agentic reinforcement learning (RL) to teach the agent to reason with its imagined futures and use them effectively for planning.

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  • [1]Train An Imaginative Agent
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 19, 05:59 PM
    We introduce Agentic Imagination (Agima), a training framework that trains an agent to imagine before acting, i.e. to be imaginative.
    A seemingly reasonable push in Sokoban can make the puzzle unsolvable.

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