ICML 2026 reproduction · applied distribution audit

SVL learns a real navigation time-to-goal law

Released survival tuples, critic, and censored likelihood on the full official PointMaze training pool. Disjoint validation and a standalone NumPy audit test the distribution directly—not through the value identity.

Claim 1 · Distribution
Applied verification

Three seeds; every PCS model improves held-out censored NLL over a goal-conditioned repeated-hazard baseline.

Claim 2 · Identity
Verified

Bellman, survival-matrix, and value iteration agree within 1.2e-12; two scope controls break it.

Claim 3 · Benchmarks
Inconclusive

No actors, HIQL rerun, or long-horizon success-rate claim. C1 evidence is not relabeled as C3.

Held-out censored negative log-likelihood · lower is better
0.760mean NLL improvement
paired gains 0.715–0.807
PCS
2.398
1-hazard
3.158
Independent reconstruction

Mass error ≤ 1.34e-15; zero monotonicity violations; raw NLLs and hashes match exactly; target shuffling costs 1.755–2.082 NLL.

Scope & cost

1M train pool
100k validation pool
3 seeds · 87.13 s
648 MiB peak RSS
USD 0 · 7/7 tests