arXiv:2605. 26012v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning (RL) agents commonly rely on high-dimensional neural representations, despite growing evidence that task-relevant value and policy structure may be intrinsically low-dimensional.
By Aleksandar Todorov, Matthia Sabatelli
arXiv:2606. 18469v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neuroscientific research has revealed that the brain encodes complex behaviors by leveraging structured, low-dimensional manifolds and dynamically fusing multiple sources of information through adaptive gating mechanisms.
By Somjit Nath, Jackson J Cone, Derek Nowrouzezahrai, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou
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. 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:2603. 27044v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) is widely recognized as sample-inefficient, a limitation attributable in part to the high dimensionality and substantial functional redundancy inherent to the policy parameter space.
By Andrea Fraschini, Davide Tenedini, Riccardo Zamboni, Mirco Mutti, Marcello Restelli
arXiv:2606. 03017v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reward transfer in Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) is unreliable when policies must generalize to unseen combinations of environment dynamics and task goals.
By Yikang Gui, Bikramjit Banerjee, Prashant Doshi
arXiv:2607. 09042v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) is increasingly used to post-train vision-language-action (VLA) models, but every update consumes robot rollouts that are slow and costly to collect, making sample efficiency a central concern.
By Iris Xu, Sunshine Jiang, John Marangola, Nitish Dashora, Richard Li, Thomas Liu, Zexue He, Yuheng Zhi, Alex Pentland, Pulkit Agrawal, Zhang-Wei Hong
arXiv:2605. 31289v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Representation learning is a powerful tool for spatio-temporal abstraction within reinforcement learning (RL).
By Amir Esterhuysen, Anders Jonsson
arXiv:2608. 07870v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Improving sample efficiency remains a core challenge in reinforcement learning (RL), especially in real-world settings like robotics, where data collection is costly.
By Donghu Kim, Youngdo Lee, Hojoon Lee, Johan Obando-Ceron, Byungkun Lee, Aaron Courville, Pablo Samuel Castro, Jaegul Choo, Clare Lyle
arXiv:2606. 12200v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study policy representation learning from unlabeled multi-policy behavioral data.
By Andrew Kang, Priya Narasimhan
arXiv:2607. 00808v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pre-training on large-scale videos to improve reinforcement learning efficiency is promising yet remains challenging.
By Jinwen Wang, Youfang Lin, Xiaobo Hu, Shuo Wang, Kai Lv
arXiv:2510. 14828v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Improving the reasoning capabilities of embodied agents is crucial for robots to complete complex human instructions in long-view manipulation tasks successfully.
By Jinrui Liu, Bingyan Nie, Boyu Li, Yaran Chen, Yuze Wang, Shunsen He, Haoran Li