arXiv:2608.28791v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Real-time decision-making for enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) is challenging because long-term production periods involve high-dimensional control sp...
By Ruimin Dai, Guodong Chen, Randy Harsuko, Kunpeng Liu, Nori Nakata
The paper presents a finite‑model synthesis that integrates operational state abstraction with optimal control within a stability‑evidence‑revision (SER) framework, termed "Poincaré meets Bellman." It distinguishes qualitative dynamics for reusable action‑response structures from dynamic programming that governs acquisition, retention, reuse, merging, and forgetting, and introduces a Bellman recursion over the joint law of hidden state and deployed memory. The authors derive explicit retention rules, demonstrate how factor sharing and informative observations improve identification, and verify coding and retention calculations through finite enumerations.
By Xin Li
Multi-turn long-horizon planning is critical for foundation model agents, yet how to fundamentally improve it remains unclear. Existing models are trained on uncontrollable and opaque Internet data, making it difficult to identify how planning ability is acquired, shaped, and integrated.
arXiv:2609.21108v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has achieved strong performance across a wide range of continuous-control problems. These continuous-control policies...
By Sachini Weerasekara, Sagar Kamarthi, Jacqueline Isaacs
arXiv:2607. 21302v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Behavior prior reinforcement learning (BPRL) has emerged as a promising paradigm to improve sample efficiency in online reinforcement learning (RL) by leveraging policy priors derived from offline demonstrations.
By Gong Gao, Weidong Zhao, Xianhui Liu, Ning Jia
arXiv:2607. 24720v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-turn long-horizon planning is critical for foundation model agents, yet how to fundamentally improve it remains unclear.
By Tianyi Men, Zhuoran Jin, Kang Liu, Jun Zhao
The paper introduces Bidirectional Behavior Prior Distillation (B2PD), a method that uses action‑value priors to train a conditional variational autoencoder for generating high‑value behavior support. These expert behavior priors are then distilled into the online reinforcement learning agent, reducing inefficient exploration and stabilizing policy updates. Experiments on state‑ and pixel‑based tasks show that B2PD improves sample efficiency while maintaining stable learning dynamics.
By Gong Gao, Xiao Lai, Jiaji Shen, Ning Jia, Xianhui Liu, Weidong Zhao
arXiv:2602. 12643v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present Unified Latent Dynamics (ULD), a novel reinforcement learning algorithm that unifies the efficiency of model-free methods with the representational strengths of model-based approaches, without incurring planning overhead.
By Jashaswimalya Acharjee, Balaraman Ravindran
arXiv:2510. 17709v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Training Reinforcement Learning (RL) policies using simulation models before deployment in real-world environments is a common strategy when real-world interaction is expensive.
By Akhil S Anand, Shambhuraj Sawant, Paavo Parmas, Jasper Hoffmann, Dirk Reinhardt, Sebastien Gros
GEM-MPC is a reinforcement learning method that blends MPPI planning with policy learning to balance exploration and exploitation in high-dimensional continuous control tasks. It trains a policy to clone the planner while also maintaining a KL-regularized policy that explores around the planner’s suggestions, thereby improving the synergy between planning and learning. The approach introduces Gated Prior Distillation, which selectively updates policies from stored planning distributions only when they offer better targets, reducing the influence of stale data without costly reanalysis. Across continuous-control benchmarks, GEM-MPC outperforms existing planning-based baselines while using lower computational budgets.
By Alvaro Serra-Gomez, Thomas Moerland
arXiv:2607. 13389v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) post-training is increasingly used to adapt foundation models for reasoning, planning, and feedback-driven robot-learning pipelines, but constrained post-training resources are often summarized by a single total FLOP budget.
By Patrick Wilhelm, Odej Kao
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