arXiv:2602. 05379v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Effective reinforcement learning (RL) for complex stochastic systems requires leveraging historical data to improve sample efficiency and accelerate policy optimization.
By Hua Zheng, Wei Xie, M. Ben Feng, Keilung Choy
arXiv:2607. 10369v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Flow-matching policies have emerged as an effective policy parameterization for robot learning.
By Rushuai Yang, Zhuo Han, Houlin Li, Hecheng Wang, Zhichao Wu, Rui Zhang, Zhaowei Zhang, Zihong Chen, Xiaohan Yan, Chiming Liu, Yi Chen, Wei Shan, Maoqing Yao
arXiv:2608. 02519v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective model-based reinforcement learning in stochastic environments requires planning that accounts for predictive uncertainty.
By Shishir Sharma, Doina Precup
arXiv:2605. 04568v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: State-of-the-art model-based Reinforcement Learning (RL) approaches either use gradient-free, population-based methods for planning, learned policy networks, or a combination of policy networks and planning.
By Jonathan Spieler, Sven Behnke
arXiv:2606. 11087v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Expressive continuous control policies, such as diffusion and flow models, form the backbone of recent advances in scaling imitation learning for simulated and real robot control.
By Zhiyuan Zhou, Andy Peng, Charles Xu, Qiyang Li, Tobias Springenberg, Kevin Frans, Sergey Levine
arXiv:2604. 12474v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In many robotic tasks, agents must traverse a sequence of spatial regions to complete a mission.
By Lidor Erez, Shahaf S. Shperberg, Ayal Taitler
arXiv:2607. 26509v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep off-policy reinforcement learning algorithms for continuous control typically rely on neural value function approximation to guide policy improvement.
By Gong Gao, Xiao Lai, Ziqi Xie, Guojie Chen, Xianhui Liu, Weidong Zhao
arXiv:2506. 15700v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Control contraction metrics (CCMs)-defined by Riemannian metrics under which a closed-loop system is incrementally exponentially stable-offer a constructive framework for synthesizing contracting policies in nonlinear path-tracking problems.
By Minjae Cho, Hiroyasu Tsukamoto, Huy T. Tran
arXiv:2604. 08580v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reward fine-tuning of diffusion and flow models and sampling from tilted or Boltzmann distributions can both be formulated as stochastic optimal control (SOC) problems, where learning an optimal generative dynamics corresponds to optimizing a control under SDE constraints.
By Carles Domingo-Enrich, Jiequn Han
arXiv:2606. 16480v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Robots deployed in the real world must plan motions across diverse scenarios without per-scenario retuning.
By Youngjae Min, Jovin D'sa, Faizan M. Tariq, David Isele, Navid Azizan, Sangjae Bae
arXiv:2606. 15359v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models have emerged as powerful tools for planning and control by learning multimodal distributions over actions and trajectories.
By Paolo Giaretta, Zeyang Li, Navid Azizan
arXiv:2603. 29499v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Classical proportional--integral--derivative (PID) control remains widely used in industrial control systems, while model predictive control (MPC) is actively studied to achieve higher performance for systems with nonlinear dynamics.
By Teruki Kato, Koshi Oishi, Seigo Ito