arXiv:2607. 01754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy exploration is a crucial component for training robust Vision-Language Navigation agents, as it exposes the policy to a broader state distribution.
By Sung June Kim, Sangpil Kim, Honglak Lee
arXiv:2608.21946v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Reinforcement learning with outcome-based objectives such as GRPO enables LLM-based agents to solve complex, long-horizon tasks, yet the reusable exp...
By Can Xie, Yuyi Zhou, Wen Yang, Ziyi zhang, Siyao Song, Yingzhuo Deng, Shuo Ren, Jiajun Zhang
The paper introduces the ACE framework, which uses spatially explicit inspection to guide embodied exploration. By combining evidence‑grounded perception with exposure‑informed movement, ACE provides a spatially resolved decision paradigm that improves cue assessment and movement direction. Experiments show ACE boosts navigation task success by 18.0% and exploration efficiency by 10.3% over previous baselines.
By Wenbin Wang, Xiang Bai, Yizhao Wang, Hang Sun, Dong Ren, Jie Qin, Qingquan Li, Bing Wang
On-policy exploration is a crucial component for training robust Vision-Language Navigation agents, as it exposes the policy to a broader state distribution. However, such exploration inevitably leads to trajectories that deviate from expert demonstrations, resulting in a semantic mismatch between the executed visual stream and the original language instruction.
arXiv:2607. 29419v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In reinforcement learning, exploration with sparse and delayed rewards presents a significant challenge due to the limited feedback available for guiding the learning process.
By Bumgeun Park, Donghwan Lee
arXiv:2607. 08837v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Exploration is essential to RL since a policy cannot improve by repeatedly sampling the behaviors it already prefers.
By Sunshine Jiang, John Marangola, David Zhang, Raghuram Kowdeed, Ruiyang Luo, Nitish Dashora, Richard Li, Pulkit Agrawal, Zhang-Wei Hong
arXiv:2609.07575v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: This work introduces an alternative view of efficient exploration and studies its theoretical and empirical implications in the absence of extrinsic...
By Mikel Malag\'on, Jon Vadillo, Josu Ceberio, Michael Bowling, Jose A. Lozano
SeekVLN is a new framework for Vision‑Language Navigation that addresses the problem of agents acting on insufficient evidence, termed Progress Myopia. It combines semantic progress reasoning with active evidence seeking, trained first with Future‑guided Reverse Generation to augment expert trajectories, and then refined via Counterfactual Contrastive Policy Optimization to reward beneficial seeking actions. Experiments on simulated benchmarks show significant gains, improving success rates by 12.7% on R2R‑CE and 7.5% on RxR‑CE, and real‑world tests demonstrate human‑like evidence‑seeking behavior.
By Zhimin Wang, Meiyuan Zhu, Duo Wu, Linjia Kang, Yajun Wang, Yuan Ni, Xiaohang Wang, Tianlu Pan, Jingyan Jiang, Yaowei Wang, Zhi Wang
arXiv:2410. 02511v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With expansive state-action spaces, efficient multi-agent exploration remains a longstanding challenge in reinforcement learning.
By Yun Qu, Boyuan Wang, Yuhang Jiang, Jianzhun Shao, Yixiu Mao, Heming Zou, Chang Liu, Cheems Wang, Meiqin Liu, Xiangyang Ji
arXiv:2601. 21754v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in language-based agentic tasks, their applicability to unseen, nonlinguistic environments (e.
By Haoyu Wang, Guozheng Ma, Shugang Cui, Yilun Kong, Haotian Luo, Li Shen, Mengya Gao, Yichao Wu, Xiaogang Wang, Dacheng Tao
arXiv:2606. 14879v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Mobile agents require efficient exploration strategies to map unseen environments and autonomously plan tasks.
By Venkata Naren Devarakonda, Raktim Gautam Goswami, Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Farshad Khorrami
arXiv:2607.08837v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Exploration is essential to RL since a policy cannot improve by repeatedly sampling the behaviors it already prefers. Standard methods inject...
By Sunshine Jiang, John Marangola, David Zhang, Raghuram Kowdeed, Ruiyang Luo, Nitish Dashora, Richard Li, Pulkit Agrawal, Zhang-Wei Hong