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successful agents exhibited causal emergence that was consistently predictive of final reward early in training and whose representational dynamics aligned with reward improvement in most tasks.

Load-bearing summary of the main empirical finding that anchors the Causally Emergent Alignment Hypothesis.

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The Causally Emergent Alignment Hypothesis: Causal Emergence Aligns with and Predicts Final Reward in Reinforcement Learning Agents

(2026) · Federico Pigozzi · Michael Levin

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Causal emergence predictive of final reward early in RL training across multiple algorithms, architectures, and environments.
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Empirical result: CE measurements correlate with and predict learning performance in RL agents.
Representational dynamics of causal emergence align with reward improvement in most tasks.
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The trajectory of causal emergence through training mirrors the reward improvement curve across the majority of tested environments.

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