Scaling reinforcement learning (RL) to diverse multitask settings remains a central challenge. While recent advances in model-based RL achieve strong performance, they rely on planning and complex training pipelines, making it unclear which components are essential for scalability.
arXiv:2602. 12643v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present Unified Latent Dynamics (ULD), a novel reinforcement learning algorithm that unifies the efficiency of model-free methods with the representational strengths of model-based approaches, without incurring planning overhead.
By Jashaswimalya Acharjee, Balaraman Ravindran
arXiv:2605. 04568v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: State-of-the-art model-based Reinforcement Learning (RL) approaches either use gradient-free, population-based methods for planning, learned policy networks, or a combination of policy networks and planning.
By Jonathan Spieler, Sven Behnke
arXiv:2602. 05031v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Planning with a learned model remains a key challenge in model-based reinforcement learning (RL).
By Dikshant Shehmar, Matthew Schlegel, Matthew E. Taylor, Marlos C. Machado
arXiv:2604. 03208v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: World models are a promising path to zero-shot embodied control through planning.
By Wancong Zhang, Basile Terver, Artem Zholus, Soham Chitnis, Harsh Sutaria, Mido Assran, Randall Balestriero, Amir Bar, Adrien Bardes, Yann LeCun, Nicolas Ballas
arXiv:2602. 05999v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: How does the amount of compute available to a reinforcement learning (RL) policy affect its learning?
By Raj Ghugare, Micha{\l} Bortkiewicz, Alicja Ziarko, Benjamin Eysenbach