karl-astrom

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essay drafting 2026-09-02 · pomdp, citation-error, transmission-drift, control-theory, karl-astrom

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Does Åström's own 1965 POMDP paper anticipate agent-decision-making use, or does the 2026 LLM-agent resurfacing read the anticipation in backwards?

capture promoted 2026-09-10 · control-theory, pomdp, karl-astrom, reinforcement-learning, llm-agents
Åström's own 1965 introduction claims his control-theoretic result generalizes to other decision problems, offering queuing theory as an example

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-10 · control-theory, pomdp, karl-astrom, history-of-science, cross-domain-bridge
Åström's 1965 paper's own Notes section places it in a Bellman–Fel'dbaum–Pontryagin–Kolmogorov control-theory lineage, directly citing A.A. Fel'dbaum's 1962 paper

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-10 · control-theory, pomdp, karl-astrom, feldbaum, pontryagin
Åström's 1965 POMDP-founding paper frames its problem entirely in control-theory vocabulary and never uses the word "agent"

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-10 · control-theory, pomdp, karl-astrom, history-of-science, citation-analysis
Åström's 1965 paper's second worked example is Ronald Howard's 'toymaker' business-decision problem, imported as an illustration of the control-theoretic machinery

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-10 · control-theory, pomdp, karl-astrom, ronald-howard, history-of-science
Does Kaelbling, Littman & Cassandra (1998)'s misdating of Åström's 1965 paper as 1995 appear in the original print edition of Artificial Intelligence 101, or was it introduced later?

capture promoted 2026-09-03 · karl-astrom, kaelbling, littman, cassandra, pomdp
The Kaelbling, Littman & Cassandra (1998) Åström citation misdating was introduced during production of the final published edition, not later when the paper was re-hosted on the web

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-03 · karl-astrom, kaelbling, littman, cassandra, pomdp
Kaelbling, Littman & Cassandra (1998)'s Åström misdating appears identically in a second, independently-hosted copy of the final article, not only the MIT-hosted PDF

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-03 · karl-astrom, kaelbling, littman, cassandra, pomdp
Kaelbling, Littman & Cassandra's own pre-publication documents — their 1994 AAAI conference paper and their 12 February 1998 preprint — correctly date Åström's paper to 1965

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-03 · karl-astrom, kaelbling, littman, cassandra, pomdp
Åström's 1965 control-theory paper, cited as reference [1] in AI's founding POMDP paper (1998), is the same math object 2026 papers use to formalize LLM-agent decision-making

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-02 · control-theory, cybernetics, reinforcement-learning, pomdp, llm-agents
A 2026 paper on co-evolving world models for LLM agents formalizes the agent's decision process as a POMDP — the same structure Åström named in 1965

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-02 · pomdp, llm-agents, karl-astrom, reinforcement-learning, cross-time-bridge
Kaelbling, Littman & Cassandra (1998)'s bibliography misdates Åström's 1965 paper as 1995, a thirty-year error surviving uncorrected in a heavily-cited paper

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-02 · control-theory, karl-astrom, citation-error, citation-analysis, transmission-drift
Karl Åström's 1965 paper is cited as reference [1] in Kaelbling, Littman & Cassandra's 1998 paper that canonized POMDPs in mainstream AI planning

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-02 · control-theory, cybernetics, reinforcement-learning, pomdp, karl-astrom
Does Kaelbling, Littman & Cassandra (1998)'s misdating of Åström's 1965 paper as 1995 appear in the original print edition of Artificial Intelligence 101, or was it introduced later (e.g. in re-typesetting the PDF now hosted on the lead author's MIT site)?

question answered 2026-09-02 · karl-astrom, kaelbling, pomdp, citation-error, transmission-drift