arXiv:2607. 23726v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Exploration in sparse-reward long-horizon tasks poses significant challenges for reinforcement learning.
By Zahra Abdalla Elashaal, Afef Hfaiedh, Nahla Khraief, Issmail Ellabib, Giansalvo Cirrincione
arXiv:2601. 19624v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Real-world reinforcement learning often faces environment drift, but most existing methods rely on static entropy coefficients/target entropy, causing over-exploration during stable periods and under-exploration after drift, and leaving unanswered the principled question of how exploration intensity should scale with drift magnitude.
By Tongxi Wang, Zhuoyang Xia, Xinran Chen, Shan Liu
arXiv:2512. 18333v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: This paper proposes a new Reinforcement Learning (RL) based control architecture for quadrotors.
By Youssef Mahran, Zeyad Gamal, Ayman El-Badawy
arXiv:2606. 05888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retry-based objectives such as pass@K and max@K optimize the best return obtained from multiple sampled trajectories, and recent work has shown that they can promote exploration without explicit exploration bonuses.
By Soichiro Nishimori, Paavo Parmas
arXiv:2610.02198v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Several state-of-the-art methods for online reinforcement learning in continuous control improve policies using action gradients of a learned critic....
By Sebastian Sanokowski, Alireza Sarmadi, Majid Khadiv
The paper introduces IR‑LQR, an optimistic online linear quadratic regulator that incorporates intrinsic rewards and variance regularization to encourage exploration while maintaining the standard LQR structure. By only adjusting the cost function, IR‑LQR remains computationally simple yet achieves the optimal worst‑case regret rate of √T. The authors validate the method with numerical experiments on aircraft pitch angle control and a UAV example, comparing it to state‑of‑the‑art online LQR algorithms.
By Marcell Bartos, Bruce D. Lee, Lenart Treven, Andreas Krause, Florian D\"orfler, Melanie N. Zeilinger