Excited to share our #ICML2026 spotlight ✨paper: Hierarchical successor representation for robust transfer. openreview.net/forum?id=txs... We ask a simple question: can an RL agent generalise efficiently under changing goals given its existing knowledge about the environment structure? 1/N

Ever wondered how the hippocampal cognitive map is read-out? @changmin-yu.bsky.social @zilong-ji.bsky.social with Jake & John, show that, during navigation, theta sweeps indicate remembered goal-directions (cf. current/next movements or perceptual targets) 1/2 www.nature.com/articles/s41...