arXiv:2510. 01460v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Offline-to-online reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a practical paradigm that leverages offline datasets for pretraining and online interactions for fine-tuning.
By Lu Li, Tianwei Ni, Yihao Sun, Pierre-Luc Bacon
arXiv:2502. 19544v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Leveraging offline data is a promising way to improve the sample efficiency of online reinforcement learning (RL).
By Yi Zhao, Aidan Scannell, Wenshuai Zhao, Yuxin Hou, Tianyu Cui, Le Chen, Dieter B\"uchler, Arno Solin, Juho Kannala, Joni Pajarinen
The paper presents an online learning algorithm that significantly boosts data efficiency for reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). It incrementally updates reward and language models as choice data arrives, using a small affirmative nudge, an epistemic neural network for reward uncertainty, and information‑directed exploration. With Gemma LLMs, the method matches offline RLHF trained on 200K labels using fewer than 20K labels, achieving over a 10× improvement in data efficiency, and projects a 1,000× gain when scaled to 1M labels.
By Seyed Mohammad Asghari, Chris Chute, Vikranth Dwaracherla, Xiuyuan Lu, Mehdi Jafarnia, Victor Minden, Zheng Wen, Benjamin Van Roy
arXiv:2505. 22442v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Offline RL (ORL) promises safe and sample-efficient deployment but existing methods rely on undocumented online interactions for hyperparameter tuning and lack reliable fully offline estimates of initial online performance.
By Mattie Fellows, Clarisse Wibault, Uljad Berdica, Johannes Forkel, Maike Osborne, Jakob N. Foerster
arXiv:2606. 04305v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study online learning with an additional offline dataset in the stochastic linear bandit setting.
By Kushagra Chandak, Toshinori Kitamura, Xiaoqi Tan
arXiv:2510. 19528v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We investigate the fundamental problem of leveraging offline data to accelerate online reinforcement learning - a direction with strong potential but limited theoretical grounding.
By Sebastian Reboul, H\'el\`ene Halconruy