arXiv:2608. 10473v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Offline-to-online (O2O) reinforcement learning aims to leverage policies pretrained on static datasets while improving them through online interaction.
By Daoyi Li, Yixian Zhang, Chao Yu, Wenbo Ding, Yu Wang
arXiv:2608. 10529v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The multi-armed bandit problem is a central framework in sequential decision-making, extensively studied under sub-Gaussian reward assumptions.
By Daphne Feng, Ricardo Parada, Lily Jiang, Sophia Yi, William Chang
arXiv:2608. 10204v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe reinforcement learning maximizes reward subject to safety constraints.
By Chenhua Fan, Jiahui Zhu, Yuhang Zhang, Honghao Wei
arXiv:2608. 10897v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Instant delivery platforms have become a critical component of urban logistics, increasingly relying on crowdsourced couriers to fulfill highly dynamic orders.
By Fengming Yao, Man Luo
arXiv:2608. 10357v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-horizon tool-using agents must reason over user goals, domain policies, tool calls, simulator state, and delayed verifiable rewards.
By Zelei Cheng, Amritansh Mishra, Sambit Sahu, William Campbell
arXiv:2605. 23146v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Classical reinforcement learning assumes the agent interacts with a fixed environment whose behavior does not depend on the agent's policy.
By Manish Aryal, Faiyaz Azam, Agnivo Banerjee, Syed Mahir Ahamed, Sai Sidhanth Manoharan Jayanthi, Allegra Laro, Cl\'ement Legentilhomme, Andrew Lin, Florian Lorkowski, Marina P\'erez del Valle, Radman Rakhshandehroo, Patric Rommel, Emanuel Ruzak, Nathan Theng, Paul Yushin Rapoport
arXiv:2608. 10936v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study a Restart POMDP (Partially Observable Markov Decision Process) on a general Borel state space, where the controller either lets the hidden state evolve unobserved or restarts the system and observes the new state.
By Konstantin Avrachenkov, Alexey Piunovskiy, Yi Zhang
arXiv:2608. 10126v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) aggregates heterogeneous preferences into a single reward model, assuming preference homogeneity.
By M P V S Gopinadh, Karthik Kamuju, Kummari Avinash, John Joshua, Srinivasa Raju Rudraraju
arXiv:2608. 10182v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-scale targeting and recommendation systems are typically built around predictive scores fed into heuristic or local allocation.
By Changshuai Wei, John Bencina, Phuc Nguyen, Andre Assuncao Silva T Ribeiro, Benjamin Zelditch
arXiv:2608. 10549v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Achieving high accuracy in laser-based cutting of optical films requires careful tuning of parameters such as focal length and laser power beam, adjusted according to the specific properties of each film type.
By Khanh Quan Pham, Majid Kundroo, Geunwoo Ban, Seongho Bae, Taehong Kim
arXiv:2608. 11152v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern reinforcement learning (RL) post-training pipelines for large language models (LLMs) increasingly combine rollout workloads across multiple domains and feedback paradigms.
By Zetao Hong, Song Yuan, Yuanhao Ding, Yibo Zhu, Daxin Jiang, Zhibin Wang, Chen Tian
arXiv:2608. 09967v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agents achieve strong performance in complex environments, yet their decision-making processes remain difficult to interpret.
By Tamar Gozlan, Claudia V. Goldman
arXiv:2608. 10634v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL), which learns environment dynamics to generate synthetic experience, is a promising approach to sample-efficient decision making.
By Zefeng Liang, Jie Qiao, Ruichu Cai, Weilin Chen, Zhifeng Hao
arXiv:2608. 10332v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Differentiable predictive control (DPC), a self-supervised learning approach for approximating explicit model predictive control (MPC) policies, offers significant computational advantages over online optimization-based MPC.
By Guangyu Wu, J\'an Drgo\v{n}a
arXiv:2608. 10403v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promising performance in autonomous driving, yet ensuring the safety of online RL policies remains challenging due to insufficient exposure to safety-critical driving scenes.
By Xincong Hu (Nanjing University), Lei Ou (Nanjing University), Maosen Li (Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd), Jingtao Zhang (Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd), Liguo Hou (Yinwang Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd), Zongzhang Zhang (Nanjing University)
arXiv:2604. 02621v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) substantially improves the reasoning capabilities of language models, but most existing RL fine-tuning approaches rely entirely on ground-truth verifiable rewards and thus labeled datasets with verifiable answers.
By Yiyang Shen, Lifu Tu, Weiran Wang
arXiv:2604. 20209v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLM self-play algorithms are notable in that, in principle, nothing bounds their learning: a Conjecturer model creates problems for a Solver, and both improve together.
By Luke Bailey, Kaiyue Wen, Kefan Dong, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Tengyu Ma
arXiv:2608. 10538v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent skills represent a standardized format for packaging procedural knowledge and domain expertise, serving within agent harness systems as an essential mechanism to continually constrain a language model's behavior space for repeatable, high-quality task execution.
By Chenhao Dang, Siyuan Xiong, Conghui He, Weijia Li
arXiv:2602. 02035v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multi-agent reinforcement learning systems deployed in real-world robotics applications face severe communication constraints that significantly impact coordination effectiveness.
By Ahmad Farooq, Kamran Iqbal
arXiv:2608. 10362v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Speculative decoding accelerates autoregressive large language model (LLM) inference by using a lightweight draft model to speculate multiple tokens, reducing expensive target model decoding steps.
By Eunjeong Kim, Yeong Jun Jeon, Myeonggyun Han