arXiv Machine Learning By Stefan Huber, Hannes Unger, Georg Sch\"afer, Jakob Rehrl

Chebyshev Policies and the Mountain Car Problem: Reinforcement Learning for Low-Dimensional Control Tasks

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arXiv:2605. 22305v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We analytically solve the Mountain Car problem, a canonical benchmark in RL, and derive an optimal control solution, closing a gap after 36 years.

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arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

V-Simba: Unleashing the Architectural Potential of RL in Visual Continuous Control

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 Machine Learning
Jun 2

Coherent Off-Policy Improvement of Large Behavior Models with Learned Rewards

arXiv:2606. 02194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Distilling expert demonstration data into large generative models using behavioral cloning is a scalable approach to learning capable policies for robotic control, particularly for dexterous manipulation.

By Christian Scherer, Joe Watson, Theo Gruner, Daniel Palenicek, Ingmar Posner, Jan Peters
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

A Survey of Reinforcement Learning-Based Motion Planning for Autonomous Driving: Lessons Learned from a Driving Task Perspective

arXiv:2503. 23650v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL), with its ability to explore and optimize policies in complex, dynamic decision-making tasks, has emerged as a promising approach to addressing motion planning (MoP) challenges in autonomous driving (AD).

By Zhuoren Li, Guizhe Jin, Ran Yu, Weiqi Zhang, Zhiwen Chen, Nan Li, Lu Xiong, Ilya Kolmanovsky, Dimitar Filev, Bo Leng, Jia Hu
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Contraction-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Nonlinear Control with Statistical Robustness

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By Minjae Cho, Hiroyasu Tsukamoto, Huy T. Tran