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Hybrid Advantage Estimation with Unified Critic for VLM Agentic Reinforcement Learning

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arXiv:2607. 23605v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) now act as agents in interactive environments, where success requires coherent reasoning and decision-making across turns.

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