arXiv AI
Sep 21

Prompt-Driven Exploration: Language as an Exploration Space for VLA Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2607.08837v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Exploration is essential to RL since a policy cannot improve by repeatedly sampling the behaviors it already prefers. Standard methods inject...

By Sunshine Jiang, John Marangola, David Zhang, Raghuram Kowdeed, Ruiyang Luo, Nitish Dashora, Richard Li, Pulkit Agrawal, Zhang-Wei Hong
arXiv AI
Oct 12

COBALT: Contextual Bandit Learning with Offline Trajectories for Multi-Turn Code Generation

COBALT is a contextual bandit learning method that reuses offline multi-turn code generation trajectories to train large language models efficiently. It treats multi-turn code generation as a one-step recoverable Markov decision process, collecting partial trajectories from a reference LLM and training the target model to complete each partial trajectory in a single step. Experiments on LiveCodeBench show that COBALT improves Pass@1 scores for R1-Distill 8B and Qwen3 8B by up to 9.0 and 6.2 points, matches the performance of two online RL baselines, and enhances robustness against misleading execution feedback.

By Ziru Chen, Dongdong Chen, Ruinan Jin, Yingbin Liang, Yujia Xie, Huan Sun