arXiv AI

AgenticRL: Agentic Reinforcement Learning with Self-Refinement for Complex UAV Navigation

arXiv AI
Sep 28

SUN: Agentic Robot Policy Learning with Persistent Task Programs

The paper introduces SUN (Semantically UNified) Programs, typed executables that translate grounded relations into optimal control objectives, satisfaction predicates, and learning rewards. Using the Kuafu harness, a foundation model orchestrates scene preparation, verification, residual reinforcement learning, and data generation, repairing candidate programs and calibrating reward weights. Across nine multi‑stage manipulation tasks, Kuafu achieves an 82.03% success rate, outperforms learned baselines, generates demonstrations 10.57× faster than human teleoperation, and transfers zero‑shot to physical Franka and Kinova robots.

By Weiqi Wang, Zhi Li, Yudong Lei, David Martinez, Xiaofeng Gao, Yuxin Jiang, Chenfanfu Jiang, Yingnian Wu, Demetri Terzopoulos, Ran Gong
arXiv AI
Oct 12

JoyInside-VLM-Agent: Product-Conditioned Multimodal Policy Learning for Embodied Agents

JoyInside‑VLM‑Agent is a ReAct‑style multimodal agent that learns product‑conditioned policies for embodied robots and smart hardware. It uses a closed‑loop sandbox to generate interaction trajectories, supervised fine‑tuning, multi‑teacher on‑policy distillation, and reinforcement learning with DPER to align token‑level evidence and rewards. The agent achieves a BFCL v4 overall score of 77.44, surpassing baselines on JoyInside‑Devices and JoyInside‑Robotics, and demonstrates visually grounded search, replanning, and failure reporting in two real‑world quadruped case studies.

By Gangyi Li, LuYao Wang, Jingfu Sun, Jingyi Yuan, Hang Liu, Hao Zong, Yujia Hu, Tingting Gao, Jianyong Wang, Xu Yang
arXiv AI
Aug 11

RecoverFly: A Failure-Aware Reinforcement Learning Post-Training Framework for Aerial Vision-Language Navigation

arXiv:2608. 09467v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicle vision-language navigation (UAV-VLN) requires agents to translate visual observations and language instructions into reliable flight actions in complex environments.

By Boxiong Wang, Hui Kang, Geng Sun, Jiahui Li, Chao Yu, Daxin Tian
arXiv AI
Aug 18

LAPF: LLM-Agent-Based Path Finder Using the UAVScenes Dataset

arXiv:2608. 15175v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly deployed for autonomous navigation in complex outdoor environments, where dynamic conditions and mission requirements require intelligent adaptive decision-making.

By Yousef Emami, Mohammadhossein Homaei, Hao Zhou, Miguel Guti\'errez Gait\'an, Atefeh Hajijamali Arani, Rui Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 19

ENPIRE: Agentic Robot Policy Self-Improvement in the Real World

arXiv:2606. 19980v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Achieving dexterous robotic manipulation in the real world heavily relies on human supervision and algorithm engineering, which becomes a central bottleneck in the pursuit of general physical intelligence.

By Wenli Xiao, Jia Xie, Tonghe Zhang, Haotian Lin, Letian "Max" Fu, Haoru Xue, Jalen Lu, Yi Yang, Cunxi Dai, Zi Wang, Jimmy Wu, Guanzhi Wang, S. Shankar Sastry, Ken Goldberg, Linxi "Jim" Fan, Yuke Zhu, Guanya Shi
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

RDA: Reward Design Agent for Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606. 01672v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning has enabled the acquisition of impressive robotic skills, but typically requires hand-crafted reward functions that are slow to design and difficult to align with human intentions.

By Hojoon Lee, Ajay Subramanian, Ben Abbatematteo, Vijay Veerabadran, Pedro Matias, Karl Ridgeway, Nitin Kamra
arXiv AI
Oct 31

GARDEN: Generalist Autonomous Reward Design Through Evidence Navigation for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

The paper introduces GARDEN, a framework that uses large language models to autonomously design a single reward program for cooperative multi‑agent reinforcement learning tasks. By navigating evidence from environment code, training logs, and agent behavior, the reward is tested and finalized without altering the learning algorithm. Experiments on Overcooked and SMAX benchmarks show that the autonomously engineered reward improves task returns by up to 58.2% and win rates by up to 89.9% compared to default rewards, outperforming prior methods.

By Dogan Urgun
arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 7

Generalizable Dense Reward for Long-Horizon Robotic Tasks

arXiv:2604.00055v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing robotic foundation policies are trained primarily via large-scale imitation learning. While such models demonstrate strong capabilit...

By Silong Yong, Stephen Sheng, Carl Qi, Xiaojie Wang, Evan Sheehan, Anurag Shivaprasad, Yaqi Xie, Katia Sycara, Yesh Dattatreya