@article{unrewardedexplorationinlargelanguagemode, title = {Unrewarded Exploration in Large Language Models Reveals Latent Learning from Psychology}, author = {Jian Xiong and Jingbo Zhou and Zihan Zhou and Yixiong Xiao and Le Zhang and Jingyong Ye and Rui Qian and Yang Zhou and Dejing Dou}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2601.22474}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22474}, }