R2R2: Robust Representation for Intensive Experience Reuse via Redundancy Reduction in Self-Predictive Learning
Abstract
For reinforcement learning in data-scarce domains like real-world robotics, intensive data reuse enhances efficiency but induces overfitting. While prior works focus on critic bias, representation-level instability in Self-Predictive Learning (SPL) under high Update-to-Data (UTD) regimes remains underexplored. To bridge this gap, we propose Robust Representation via Redundancy Reduction (R2R2), a regularization method within SPL. We theoretically identify that standard zero-centering conflicts with SPL's spectral properties and design a non-centered objective accordingly. We verify R2R2 on SPL-native algorithms like TD7. Furthermore, to demonstrate its orthogonality to prior advancements, we extend the state-of-the-art SimbaV2, which originally lacks SPL, by integrating a tailored SPL module, termed SimbaV2-SPL. Experiments across 11 continuous control tasks confirm that R2R2 effectively mitigates overfitting; specifically, at a UTD ratio of 20, it improves TD7 by ~22% and provides additional gains on top of SimbaV2-SPL, which itself establishes a new state-of-the-art. The code can be found at: https://github.com/songsang7/R2R2
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.14026,
title = {R2R2: Robust Representation for Intensive Experience Reuse via Redundancy Reduction in Self-Predictive Learning},
author = {Sanghyeob Song and Donghyeok Lee and Jinsik Kim and Sungroh Yoon},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.14026},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
Accepted at the Forty-Third International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026). This is the camera-ready version