# A New Method Enabled by Offline Data Estimation

- Source: Sergey Levine
- Published: 2026-10-21T04:30:34.000Z
- RoboHot: https://robohot.news/en/items/nkpfujkf7tx7fau2jg61bbvmr
- Original: https://x.com/svlevine/status/2112763450338550023

## Summary

Estimating empowerment from offline data is useful because it provides an unsupervised objective for learning the relative "value" of each state in reaching diverse outcomes. But making it computable is notoriously difficult. In our new paper, we propose a computable estimator, along with some applications!