arXiv:2602. 05459v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Offline goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (GCRL) is typically benchmarked by the best tuned success rate of each method.
By Jan Malte T\"opperwien, Aditya Mohan, Marius Lindauer
arXiv:2607. 04487v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural autoregressive solvers for the Multi-Attribute Vehicle Routing Problem (MAVRP) reach competitive cost but offer no per-step justification, a problem when dispatchers must validate, accept, or compare them.
By Sohaib Afifi
arXiv:2606. 16605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World models are widely used in robotic and agentic engineering control systems due to their ability to learn latent dynamics for planning and decision-making.
By Junjian Zhang, Hao Tan, Ruonan Li, Dong Zhu, Aiping Li, Zhaoquan Gu
BCPPO is a new variant of Proximal Policy Optimization that uses Bachelier-inspired cost‑prediction networks to generate a smooth penalty based on disagreement among critics. The method keeps temporal‑difference learning unchanged, applies a saturation‑aware controller to manage cost penalties, and deploys only the policy network. Across extensive experiments, BCPPO outperforms comparators in achieving higher mean returns while maintaining lower or comparable CVaR in all tested tasks.
By Dongsheng Hou, Yanqiao Chen, Yuhan Rui
arXiv:2605. 17877v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: A significant hurdle for current LLMs is the execution of complex, multi-stage tasks.
By Wonjoong Kim, Yeonjun In, Sangwu Park, Dongha Lee, Chanyoung Park
arXiv:2608. 01130v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A broad range of models face the mismatch where they are updated through trajectory losses but are evaluated by downstream task reward.
By Yuyang Shen
arXiv:2608.30406v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Goal-conditioned reinforcement learning struggles with long horizons when rewards are sparse. While a planner can provide subgoals to guide a low-level...
By Olivier Serris, St\'ephane Doncieux, Olivier Sigaud
arXiv:2608. 14332v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning is promising for autonomous urban driving, but long-horizon goal-directed navigation asks a policy to acquire several competing behaviors at once--reaching a distant goal, tracking a route, avoiding obstacles, obeying signals--and a fixed objective gives no order in which to learn them.
By Anisa Saleem, Duksu Kim
arXiv:2606. 03238v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) makes large-scale post-training possible by replacing an underspecified human objective with learned and scalable proxies.
By Zelalem Abahana
arXiv:2604. 26360v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) systems face a compounding alignment challenge: not only are learned reward models uncertain about unseen state-action pairs, but the human preference annotations they are trained on are themselves inconsistent, context-dependent, and noisy.
By Disha Singha
arXiv:2605.23220v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Despite the growing use of world models as decision-making agents, their adversarial robustness remains underexplored due to the lack of dedicated...
By Zhixiang Guo, Siyuan Liang, Shi Fu, Cheng Guo, Andras Balogh, Mark Jelasity, Dacheng Tao
ARC‑Bench is a new benchmark that tests whether frozen JEPA‑style latent world models can correctly rank candidate actions by latent distance. The study finds that the assumption of latent rankability fails dramatically in both navigation and manipulation tasks, with the top‑scored actions often being suboptimal. Closed‑loop replanning masks this defect, but reducing replanning frequency reveals the underlying ranking failures.
By Zhengshu Zhang, Zhiyuan Li