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Excited to share that my first collaborative work, Deep RL Needs Deep Behavior Analysis: Exploring Implicit Planning by Model-Free Agents in Open-Ended Environments , with Riley Simmons-Edler, Ryan P. Badman, Felix Baastad Berg, John J. Vastola, Joshua Lunger, William Qian, and Kanaka Rajan, has been accepted to NeurIPS 2025! We developed a foraging environment (based on Craftax) and trained PPO agents with compact GRUs, uncovering that even model-free agents can plan and recall across hundreds of timesteps.