arXiv:2601. 00898v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion-based policies have gained growing popularity in solving a wide range of decision-making tasks due to their superior expressiveness and controllable generation during inference.
By Ruiming Liang, Yinan Zheng, Kexin Zheng, Tianyi Tan, Jianxiong Li, Liyuan Mao, Zhihao Wang, Guang Chen, Hangjun Ye, Jingjing Liu, Jinqiao Wang, Xianyuan Zhan
arXiv:2607. 15273v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: MeanFlow generators achieve fast few-step sampling by predicting average velocities over time intervals, making them attractive for efficient generation.
By Yushi Huang, Xiangxin Zhou, Jun Zhang, Liefeng Bo, Tianyu Pang
arXiv:2603. 27450v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Thanks to their remarkable flexibility, diffusion models and flow models have emerged as promising candidates for policy representation.
By Chenxiao Gao, Edward Chen, Tianyi Chen, Bo Dai
arXiv:2601. 22211v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) with combinatorial action spaces remains challenging because feasible action sets are exponentially large and governed by complex feasibility constraints, making direct policy parameterization impractical.
By Lingkai Kong, Anagha Satish, Hezi Jiang, Akseli Kangaslahti, Andrew Ma, Wenbo Chen, Mingxiao Song, Lily Xu, Milind Tambe
arXiv:2606. 06967v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative policies provide expressive and multimodal action distributions, making them attractive for reinforcement learning (RL) in complex continuous-control tasks.
By Ke Hu, Shutong Ding, Panxin Tao, Jingya Wang, Ye Shi
arXiv:2606. 08602v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present an online reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm for fine-tuning flow-matching policies in continuous-control problems.
By Boshu Lei, Kostas Daniilidis, Antonio Loquercio
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:2604. 14698v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion models have recently emerged as expressive policy representations for online reinforcement learning (RL).
By Xiaoyi Dong, Xi Sheryl Zhang, Jian Cheng
arXiv:2606. 10613v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion-based Q-learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm for offline reinforcement learning, but its reliance on multi-step denoising makes both training and inference computationally expensive and brittle.
By Thanh Nguyen, Tri Ton, Hongbin Choe, Tung M. Luu, Chang D. Yoo
arXiv:2608. 06595v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural networks applied to sequential decision-making tasks typically rely on latent representations of environment states.
By Mohamed Ghanem, Bernd Finkbeiner
arXiv:2601. 08136v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion and flow policies are gaining prominence in online reinforcement learning (RL) due to their expressive power, yet training them efficiently remains a critical challenge.
By Zeyang Li, Sunbochen Tang, Navid Azizan
arXiv:2607. 14522v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We formulate reinforcement learning (RL) in continuous time with discrete state spaces and possibly arbitrary action spaces via a stochastic control approach, where the state dynamics are modeled as a controlled continuous-time Markov chain (CTMC).
By Zikun Zhang, Jiayuan Sheng, David D. Yao, Wenpin Tang