[kevinwang]

Not sure if you meant this because it doesn't cite the paper you mention, but it's a similar work: "An Investigation of Model-Free Planning", Guez et Al. (Deepmind) 2019 https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.03559

[astrange]

Speaking of not citing, that one could go a bit further back.

https://cdn.aaai.org/AAAI/1987/AAAI87-048.pdf