@article{therankandgradientlostinnonstationaritys, title = {The Rank and Gradient Lost in Non-stationarity: Sample Weight Decay for Mitigating Plasticity Loss in Reinforcement Learning}, author = {Zihao Wu and Hongyao Tang and Yi Ma and Jiashun Liu and Yan Zheng and Jianye Hao}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2604.01913}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01913}, }