arXiv AI
Jun 30

Dual-Flow Reinforcement Learning with State-Aware Exploration

arXiv:2606. 29820v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In complex continuous-control reinforcement learning tasks, multimodal optimal actions often coincide with uncertain, multimodal return distributions, making reliable value estimation and multimodal exploration challenging.

By Qijun Li, Zheng Fu, Qi Song, Yifei He, Weitao Zhou, Kun Jiang, Diange Yang
arXiv AI
Oct 19

Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Policy Improvement via Flow-Reversed Action Anchors

The paper introduces AnchorQ, a method that improves sample-efficient reinforcement learning for policy refinement by using flow-reversed action anchors. AnchorQ maps reference behaviors to state-conditioned latent anchors, samples local particles around these anchors, and employs value-guided sampling to explore promising refinements. Experiments on simulated and real-world manipulation tasks show that AnchorQ outperforms state-of-the-art post-training baselines, achieving a 37% higher real-world success rate and 97% greater simulated task throughput within the same interaction budget.

By Carl Qi, Weijun Dong, Xiaojie Wang, Peiyi Chen, Rahul Sajnani, Mingyuan Zhang, Amy Zhang, Jose Barreiros, Manikatan Nambi, Lillian J. Ratliff, Dylan Randle