Procedural Generation vs PowerPlay in Continual Learning

Tue, 10 Nov 2026 09:00:00 +0800

PowerPlay searches inside the agent for its next task; procedural generation supplies tasks from outside and a curator picks

TL;DR: PowerPlay and OOPS answer the question of where the next task comes from inside the agent: the next task is the cheapest one the current solver cannot do, found by a search that also produces the solver that can. Procedural generation answers it from outside: a generator produces more tasks than anyone can train on, and the curriculum is a sampling policy over that distribution. For continual learning the useful comparison is the gate each design uses to accept a task, what that gate costs, and what it protects.

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Procedural Generation vs PowerPlay in Continual Learning