arXiv:2606. 30445v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online imitation learning (IL), particularly on-policy distillation, has emerged as a strong LLM post-training approach, often outperforming offline supervised fine-tuning (SFT).
By Huaqing Zhang, Jingchu Gai, Juno Kim, Bingbin Liu, Andrej Risteski
arXiv:2607. 29617v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Imitation learning (IL)---training an agent to replicate expert behavior from demonstrations---underpins applications from robotics to language model training.
By Luca Viano, Antoine Moulin, Audrey Huang, Volkan Cevher, Philip Amortila, Dylan J. Foster
The paper introduces Dually Regularized AIL, a model‑free algorithm for adversarial imitation learning that jointly applies KL policy regularization and a quadratic reward penalty based on expert and learner occupancies. It proves fast convergence rates, achieving a ×O(1/K+1/N) bound on the regularized imitation gap in finite‑horizon MDPs with general function approximation, and establishes the first algorithm to attain ×O(1/ε) sample complexity in both expert demonstrations and online interactions for this regularized objective.
By Hanbin Zhou, Shangzhe Li, Alexander Braverman, Weitong Zhang
arXiv:2405. 16668v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Adversarial Imitation Learning (AIL) faces challenges with sample inefficiency because of its reliance on sufficient on-policy data to evaluate the performance of the current policy during reward function updates.
By Yilei Chen, Vittorio Giammarino, James Queeney, Ioannis Ch. Paschalidis
arXiv:2604. 06039v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Value iteration-type methods have been extensively studied for computing a nearly optimal value function in reinforcement learning (RL).
By Zhichao Jia, Guanghui Lan
arXiv:2606. 18531v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning is typically analyzed under process-level reward supervision, yet many sequential decision datasets record only trajectory-level outcomes.
By Xuanfei Ren, Tengyang Xie
arXiv:2606. 29980v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Zero-shot Transfer in Reinforcement Learning (RL) aims to train an agent that can generate optimal policies for any reward function, without additional learning at transfer time, while training only on reward-free trajectories.
By Louis Bagot (SyCoSMA), Mathieu Lefort (LIRIS, SyCoSMA, IRISA, MALT, UR), La\"etitia Matignon (SyCoSMA)
arXiv:2607. 03385v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Policy learning has received substantial attention with the goal of learning policies from observational data for decision-making.
By Hamsa Bastani, Osbert Bastani, Shihan Chen
arXiv:2608. 06337v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A monotone adversary observes an i.
By Anay Mehrotra
arXiv:2603. 06957v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study post-training linear autoregressive models with outcome and process rewards.
By Alireza Mousavi-Hosseini, Murat A. Erdogdu
arXiv:2512. 23075v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Policy gradient methods for Large Language Models optimize a policy $\pi_\theta$ via a surrogate objective computed from samples of a rollout policy $\pi_{\text{roll}}$.
By Yingru Li, Jiacai Liu, Jiawei Xu, Yuxuan Tong, Ziniu Li, Qian Liu, Baoxiang Wang
arXiv:2609.37660v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We study nonpreemptive contextual queueing bandits in a single-server system. Each job is represented by a $d$-dimensional context vector; in each roun...
By Wansoo Choi, Seoungbin Bae, Dabeen Lee