arXiv:2606. 00840v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This work presents a logic-driven framework to evaluate the performance of reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms in their ability to generalize to unseen tasks.
By Vignesh Subramanian, {\DJ}or{\dj}e \v{Z}ikeli\'c, Suguman Bansal
arXiv:2607. 00392v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unsupervised Reinforcement Learning (URL) aims to pre-train scalable, skill-conditioned policies without extrinsic rewards, serving as a foundation for downstream control tasks.
By Jongchan Park, Seungjun Oh, Seungho Baek, Yusung Kim
arXiv:2608. 03223v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic reinforcement learning enables LLM agents to learn through interaction, but sparse trajectory-level rewards reveal success without identifying which intermediate decisions deserve credit.
By Ranxu Zhang, Guinan Chen, Chenshaodong, Jinghao Lin, Xiaozhou Xu, Sunzhe, Yanyong Zhang, Chao Wang
arXiv:2509. 02522v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) have empowered large language models (LLMs) to tackle challenging reasoning tasks such as mathematics and programming, however existing RLVR methods often suffer from sparse reward signals and unstable policy gradient updates inherent to RL-based approaches.
By Jiaming Li, Longze Chen, Ze Gong, Yukun Chen, Lu Wang, Wanwei He, Run Luo, Min Yang
arXiv:2606. 02194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distilling expert demonstration data into large generative models using behavioral cloning is a scalable approach to learning capable policies for robotic control, particularly for dexterous manipulation.
By Christian Scherer, Joe Watson, Theo Gruner, Daniel Palenicek, Ingmar Posner, Jan Peters
arXiv:2606. 07367v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently emerged as powerful controllers for interactive agents in complex environments, yet training them to perform reliable long-horizon decision making remains a fundamental challenge.
By Yudi Zhang, Meng Fang, Zhenfang Chen, Mykola Pechenizkiy
arXiv:2607. 18830v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) is a widely used framework for reinforcement learning (RL) that enables efficient transfer by learning global policy parameters that can be rapidly adapted to new tasks.
By Garvit Singla, Uma Maheswari Natarajan, Raghuram Bharadwaj Diddigi
arXiv:2107. 08183v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: High-dimensional state and action spaces combined with sparse reward structures in reinforcement learning (RL) environments typically require advanced control architectures.
By JaeYoon Kim, Junyu Xuan, Christy Liang, Farookh Hussain
arXiv:2607. 26094v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is the standard approach for aligning large language models with human preferences, but its quality is limited by static, task-agnostic reward models.
By Yunpeng Chu
arXiv:2605. 11020v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) is typically formulated as maximizing entropy subject to matching the distribution of expert trajectories.
By Anish Diwan, Davide Tateo, Christopher E. Mower, Haitham Bou-Ammar, Jan Peters, Oleg Arenz
arXiv:2607. 08647v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As autonomous agents are increasingly deployed across diverse operational contexts, aligning their behavior with human intent demands reward functions that remain robust to such changes rather than overfitting to any single environment.
By Ali Larian, Qian Lin, Chang Zong Wu, Daniel S. Brown
arXiv:2604. 00860v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has become a central post-training paradigm for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models.
By Huaiyang Wang, Xiaojie Li, Deqing Wang, Haoyi Zhou, Zixuan Huang, Yaodong Yang, Jianxin Li, Yikun Ban