arXiv:2609.39794v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown strong promise for general-purpose robotic manipulation, yet adapting them to new tasks and domains rema...
By Zaijing Li, Rui Shao, Bing Hu, Haoyu Zhang, Dongmei Jiang, Liqiang Nie
arXiv:2605. 30719v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study when large language models (LLMs) can serve as effective black-box policy optimizers for reinforcement learning (RL) tasks, i.
By Stephane Hatgis-Kessell, Emma Brunskill
The paper presents a decentralized navigation framework for composite heterogeneous robots that integrates a large language model (LLM) policy agent, an Upper Confidence Bound (UCB) bandit, and a Double Deep Q-Network (Double DQN) controller. Each robot independently generates and refines policies at the round level using LLM inference, while the Double DQN handles tick-level action selection based on navigation variables and LLM priors. Across 30 rounds, the full configuration achieved all goals with the lowest median completion time (42 ticks) and a 25–39% improvement over other setups.
By Chongwen Dong, Mithun Paul Saint-Germain, Pinjari Asif, Carlo R. daCunha
arXiv:2610.00982v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models struggle on history-dependent manipulation tasks, where the current observation alone does not determine the acti...
By Xuehui Yu, Eason Yu, Meiyi Wang, Haozhe Du, Stefano V. Albrecht, Harold Soh
arXiv:2607. 19399v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: It is commonly observed that online reinforcement learning (RL) produces better-performing strategies than offline methods across a broad range of performance measures.
By Dmitriy Poyarkov, Aleksei Staroverov, Aleksandr I. Panov
arXiv:2602. 04879v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a cornerstone for fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs), with Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) serving as the de facto standard algorithm.
By Penghui Qi, Xiangxin Zhou, Zichen Liu, Tianyu Pang, Chao Du, Min Lin, Wee Sun Lee
arXiv:2609.32453v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Robotic manipulation is inherently history-dependent, yet most pretrained robotic policies condition on only the current observation or a sho...
By Xinyu Zhao, Yixiang Shan, Tao Yang, Runyu Lei, Yiming Zhao, Jiaxin Fan, Zongbao Feng, Peng Jia
arXiv:2601. 18510v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While Large Language Model (LLM) agents excel at general tasks, they inherently struggle with continual adaptation due to the frozen weights after deployment.
By Yibo Li, Zijie Lin, Ailin Deng, Xuan Zhang, Yufei He, Shuo Ji, Tri Cao, Bryan Hooi
arXiv:2603. 11653v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Continual Reinforcement Learning (CRL) for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models is a promising direction toward self-improving embodied agents that can adapt in openended, evolving environments.
By Jiaheng Hu, Jay Shim, Chen Tang, Yoonchang Sung, Bo Liu, Peter Stone, Roberto Martin-Martin
arXiv:2609.22684v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Memory-dependent robotic manipulation often requires later actions to use information from earlier interactions. Existing vision-language-action (VLA...
By Wenzhuo Li, Qiongfeng Shi, Yi Zhou
arXiv:2605. 03065v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Generative control policies (GCPs), such as diffusion- and flow-based control policies, have emerged as effective parameterizations for robot learning.
By Sarvesh Patil, Mitsuhiko Nakamoto, Manan Agarwal, Shashwat Saxena, Jesse Zhang, Giri Anantharaman, Cleah Winston, Chaoyi Pan, Douglas Chen, Nai-Chieh Huang, Zeynep Temel, Oliver Kroemer, Sergey Levine, Abhishek Gupta, Hongkai Dai, Paarth Shah, Max Simchowitz
arXiv:2609.14138v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: As LLM agents become integrated into increasingly complex workflows, they must continually acquire new capabilities while retaining competence on pre...
By Siddharth Sharma, Nilesh Prasad Pandey, Onat Gungor, Tajana Rosing