arXiv:2509. 02522v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) have empowered large language models (LLMs) to tackle challenging reasoning tasks such as mathematics and programming, however existing RLVR methods often suffer from sparse reward signals and unstable policy gradient updates inherent to RL-based approaches.
By Jiaming Li, Longze Chen, Ze Gong, Yukun Chen, Lu Wang, Wanwei He, Run Luo, Min Yang
arXiv:2608. 16798v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agent harnesses have substantially improved performance on long-horizon tasks by coordinating agent interactions with the environment.
By Huatong Song, Fei Bai, Ming Yang, Renyuan Li, Jia Deng, Jujie He, Zhange Zhang, Daixuan Cheng, Yan Xing, Qi Yun, Xuxing Chen, Danyang Li, Feng Chang, Chuan Hao, Ran Tao, Jian Yang, Bryan Dai, Wayne Xin Zhao, Mingjie Tang, Ji-Rong Wen
arXiv:2602. 07832v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Process rewards have been widely used in deep reinforcement learning to improve training efficiency, reduce variance, and prevent reward hacking.
By Xian Wu, Kaijie Zhu, Ying Zhang, Lun Wang, Wenbo Guo
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
arXiv:2510. 19244v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning (RL) achieves remarkable performance but lacks interpretability, limiting trust in policy behavior.
By Yiyu Qian, Su Nguyen, Chao Chen, Qinyue Zhou, Liyuan Zhao
arXiv:2602. 05999v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: How does the amount of compute available to a reinforcement learning (RL) policy affect its learning?
By Raj Ghugare, Micha{\l} Bortkiewicz, Alicja Ziarko, Benjamin Eysenbach
arXiv:2608. 07086v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning systems are significantly more complex than other machine learning paradigms due to inherent properties, causing RL system design to jointly account for many tightly coupled factors.
By Qi Zhao, Guozheng Ma, Yilun Kong, Lu Li, Haoyu Wang, Zilin Wang, Tiantian Zhang, Yuxing Wang, Jian Sha, Yongzhe Chang, Xueqian Wang, Dacheng Tao
arXiv:2608. 10357v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon tool-using agents must reason over user goals, domain policies, tool calls, simulator state, and delayed verifiable rewards.
By Zelei Cheng, Amritansh Mishra, Sambit Sahu, William Campbell
arXiv:2502. 19544v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Leveraging offline data is a promising way to improve the sample efficiency of online reinforcement learning (RL).
By Yi Zhao, Aidan Scannell, Wenshuai Zhao, Yuxin Hou, Tianyu Cui, Le Chen, Dieter B\"uchler, Arno Solin, Juho Kannala, Joni Pajarinen
arXiv:2502. 17666v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing offline in-context reinforcement learning (ICRL) methods have predominantly relied on supervised training objectives, which are known to have limitations in offline RL settings.
By Denis Tarasov, Alexander Nikulin, Ilya Zisman, Albina Klepach, Andrei Polubarov, Nikita Lyubaykin, Alexander Derevyagin, Igor Kiselev, Vladislav Kurenkov
arXiv:2607. 18830v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) is a widely used framework for reinforcement learning (RL) that enables efficient transfer by learning global policy parameters that can be rapidly adapted to new tasks.
By Garvit Singla, Uma Maheswari Natarajan, Raghuram Bharadwaj Diddigi
arXiv:2508. 10123v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Advanced reasoning in LLMs on challenging domains like mathematical reasoning can be tackled using verifiable rewards based reinforced fine-tuning (ReFT).
By Maxime Heuillet, Yufei Cui, Boxing Chen, Audrey Durand, Prasanna Parthasarathi