The paper introduces a diagnostic workflow for multi‑objective reinforcement learning (MORL) that reveals behavioral differences among policies on the Pareto front, which are not apparent from value vectors alone. It offers quantitative and visual tools to inspect these variations and demonstrates their effectiveness on both simple grid tasks and more complex continuous‑control benchmarks.
arXiv:2607. 29559v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) systems are typically trained using a single, well-specified scalar reward function.
arXiv:2607. 29246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern large language models (LLMs) are expected not just to answer correctly, but to adapt their behavior to different human values and use cases.
arXiv:2605.09364v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper investigates robust representation learning in offline goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (GCRL). Particularly in sparse reward sce...
arXiv:2609.08211v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning (MORL) often suffers from sparse rewards, reward conflicts, and late-stage reward tug-of-war, causing...
arXiv:2602. 07764v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multi-objective reinforcement learning (MORL) seeks to train agents capable of balancing conflicting objectives.
The paper introduces Meta-Gradient Informed Multi-Objective Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MIRL), a framework that leverages the structure of multiple objectives to enhance cooperation among agents. By formulating MOMARL at both team and individual levels and using objective-wise counterfactual credit assignment, MIRL allows agents to learn how to prioritize objectives individually while jointly optimizing a system-level objective. Experiments on a multi-objective particle environment demonstrate that MIRL, especially its dynamic variant, improves Pareto-front quality compared to baseline methods.
The paper introduces a process‑aware evaluation framework for cooperative multi‑agent reinforcement learning that supplements traditional outcome metrics with diagnostics of interference, coordinated task completion, participation, and coordination efficiency. Using the STAT testbed and two established benchmarks, the authors demonstrate that policies with similar returns can differ markedly in coordination behavior, and that reward shaping can alter coordination without affecting overall task return. The framework reveals distinct process signatures across spatial, task, and agent scaling and remains informative across different coordination mechanisms.
arXiv:2602.05863v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) remains the dominant critic-free approach for fine-tuning LLMs and VLMs, but its compatibility with const...
The paper introduces objective‑conflict coefficients to measure how competing goals affect learning efficiency in multi‑objective reinforcement learning. It proposes a routed ensemble policy algorithm that keeps a small set of basis policies and routes trajectories to the most promising one, and a kernel surrogate trajectory attribution method that estimates how feedback from one trajectory influences learning on others. Experiments on Meta‑World and MO‑Gymnasium show routed ensembles boost average performance by 4.3% and the kernel attribution improves correlation with leave‑one‑out analysis by 50%, achieving a 27% reward gain over baseline attribution methods.
arXiv:2608. 07180v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in deep reinforcement learning (RL) have shown that improving neural network architectures can yield substantial gains in sample efficiency and asymptotic performance without altering the underlying algorithms.
arXiv:2605.30749v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Maximum entropy reinforcement learning (MaxEnt-RL) enables robust exploration, yet practical implementations often restrict policies to simple Gaus...
arXiv:2607. 08647v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As autonomous agents are increasingly deployed across diverse operational contexts, aligning their behavior with human intent demands reward functions that remain robust to such changes rather than overfitting to any single environment.