arXiv AI

How Can Reinforcement Learning Achieve Expert-level Placement?

arXiv:2604. 25191v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Chip placement is a critical step in physical design.

arXiv AI

Jun 2

ExpertGen: Scalable Sim-to-Real Expert Policy Learning from Imperfect Behavior Priors

arXiv:2603. 15956v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning generalizable and robust behavior cloning policies requires large volumes of high-quality robotics data.

By Zifan Xu, Ran Gong, Maria Vittoria Minniti, Kausik Sivakumar, Ahmet Salih Gundogdu, Eric Rosen, Riedana Yan, Tushar Kusnur, Zixing Wang, Di Deng, Peter Stone, Xiaohan Zhang, Karl Schmeckpeper

llms diffusion reinforcement-learning robotics benchmarks

arXiv AI

Aug 10

Minimal Ingredients for Reward Assignment from Expert Demonstrations

arXiv:2506. 06793v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reward assignment from scarce demonstrations is a key challenge in both offline and online imitation learning.

By Zixuan Dong, Yumi Omori, Keith Ross

reinforcement-learning benchmarks safety

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 2

Coherent Off-Policy Improvement of Large Behavior Models with Learned Rewards

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

reinforcement-learning robotics fine-tuning

arXiv AI

Jul 2

Selective Expert Guidance for Effective and Diverse Exploration in Reinforcement Learning of LLMs

arXiv:2510. 04140v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has become a widely adopted technique for enhancing the reasoning ability of Large Language Models (LLMs).

By Zishang Jiang, Jinyi Han, Tingyun Li, Xinyi Wang, Sihang Jiang, Jiaqing Liang, Zhaoqian Dai, Shuguang Ma, Fei Yu, Yanghua Xiao

llms reinforcement-learning

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 9

Variational Proximal Policy Optimization

arXiv:2606. 08032v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback via Proximal Policy Optimization often suffers from policy mode collapse, brittle exploration loops, and distribution drift.

By Ousmane Amadou Dia

reinforcement-learning benchmarks

arXiv AI

2d ago

Simulation-Aware In-Context Policy Improvement for LLM-Aided Analog Layout Refinement

arXiv:2608. 13767v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Analog IC layout design remains a labor-intensive iterative process dominated by simulation-driven refinement.

By Bingyang Liu, Ziming Wei, Xiaohan Gao, David Z. Pan

llms agents

arXiv AI

1d ago

SKILL: Self-correcting Knowledge-guided Iterative Large Language Model Agent for Logic Optimization

arXiv:2608. 14579v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Logic synthesis optimization poses significant challenges due to exponentially growing search spaces, sparse reward signals, and diverse logic structures.

By Rui Yang

llms agents reinforcement-learning benchmarks safety

arXiv AI

Aug 11

Parameter Exploration for RLVR via Variational Learning

arXiv:2608. 09805v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Exploration has been a focus of reinforcement learning research for a long time.

By Vatsal Venkatkrishna, Nico Daheim, Iryna Gurevych

llms reinforcement-learning

arXiv AI

Jun 26

EVOM: Agentic Meta-Evolution of Actor-Critic Architectures for Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606. 26327v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In actor-critic reinforcement learning, network architectures are typically manually designed.

By Boyun Zhang, Chao Wang, Kai Wu

llms agents reinforcement-learning benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jun 2

SpeedAug: Policy Acceleration via Tempo-Enriched Policy and RL Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2512. 00062v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robotic policy learning for complex real-world manipulation tasks has seen rapid recent progress, enabled in large part by the ability to collect demonstrations through human operation.

By Taewook Nam, Junmo Cho, Youngsoo Jang, Sung Ju Hwang

reinforcement-learning robotics fine-tuning efficiency benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jun 2

FlowPlace: Flow Matching for Chip Placement

arXiv:2604. 23658v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Chip placement plays an important role in physical design.

By Peng Xie, Ke Xue, Yunqi Shi, Ruo-Tong Chen, Chengrui Gao, Siyuan Xu, Chenjian Ding, Mingxuan Yuan, Chao Qian

diffusion benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jul 24

What Matters for Simulation to Online Reinforcement Learning on Real Robots

arXiv:2602. 20220v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We investigate what specific design choices enable successful online reinforcement learning (RL) on physical robots.

By Yarden As, Dhruva Tirumala, Ren\'e Zurbr\"ugg, Chenhao Li, Stelian Coros, Andreas Krause, Markus Wulfmeier

reinforcement-learning robotics

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