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Benchmarking Action Spaces in Reinforcement Learning for Vision-based Robotic Manipulation

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arXiv:2606. 18594v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In real-world reinforcement learning (RL), the choice of action space can play a key role in shaping motion smoothness, safety, and overall task performance.

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