@article{maximumlikelihoodreinforcementlearning, title = {Maximum Likelihood Reinforcement Learning}, author = {Fahim Tajwar and Guanning Zeng and Yueer Zhou and Yuda Song and Daman Arora and Yiding Jiang and Jeff Schneider and Ruslan Salakhutdinov and Haiwen Feng and Andrea Zanette}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2602.02710}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02710}, }