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  1. ExecCritic: Learn to Test, Test to Improve for Coding Agents

    Sep 8, 2026Leitian Tao, Baolin Peng, Haorui Wang +7Coding AgentsTest Generation

  2. Better Call CineCrew: Consistent Ultra-Long Narrative-to-Film Generation

    Sep 7, 2026Jiaben Chen, Sixun Dong, Qinhong Zhou +4FilmsCinematic Video Generation

  3. LOCI: A Locator-Critic with Refinement Loop

    Aug 31, 2026Walid Bousselham, Mathilde Caron, Arsha Nagrani +1Recent Vision-Language ModelsVisual Evidence

  4. Locally-Guided Actor-Critic: Training a Goal-conditioned Actor with a Subgoal-aware Critic

    Aug 31, 2026Olivier Serris, Stéphane Doncieux, Olivier SigaudGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningSoft Actor-Critic

  5. Co-Evolving Actor-Conditioned Critics for Non-Verifiable Generation

    Aug 31, 2026Jinyoung Kim, Muhammad Khalifa, Lajanugen Logeswaran +4CritiqueCritic

  6. Recovering Expert Critic-Sourced Network Adjacency between Musical Artists from Acoustic Distributions: A Construct-Validity Approach

    Aug 27, 2026Elena Badillo-Goicoechea, Fengfeng HeCollaborative FilteringMusical Structure

  7. Critic-Free Pretraining for Efficient Online Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning

    Aug 11, 2026Daoyi Li, Yixian Zhang, Wenbo Ding +2Offline Safe Reinforcement LearningSoft Actor-Critic

  8. Optimizing What Policies Learn From: Recoverability-aware Rollout Intervention Learning

    Aug 5, 2026Zheyuan Zhang, Manqing Mao, Hong Wang +8Reinforcement Learning RolloutsRollout

  9. FedCritic-MIMO: Communication-Efficient Serverless Federated Critic Learning for Massive-MIMO Resource Control in Open and Disaggregated 6G RANs

    Aug 4, 2026Amin Farajzadeh, Melike Erol-KantarciOrthogonal Frequency-Division MultiplexingMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

  10. Start Classifying: Categorical Critics for LLM Reinforcement Learning

    Aug 3, 2026Zhijian Zhou, Long Li, Xuan Zhang +7Relative Policy OptimizationProximal Policy Optimization

  11. LEAP: Lean Environment-Feedback via Adaptive Pruning for Code RL in GPU Kernel Generation

    Aug 3, 2026Tankun Li, Zhi Chen, Yaohua TangGraphics Processing Unit KernelsAI Code Generation

  12. WCM: A World Critic Model for Vision-Language-Action Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 31, 2026Senyu Fei, Xiaopeng Yu, Siyin Wang +3Diffusion-Based Vision-Language-ActionsVision-Language-Action

  13. Offline-Online Curriculum RL for Multimodal Reasoning

    Jul 26, 2026Wendi Deng, Hang Du, Guoshun Nan +11Multimodal ReasoningCurriculum Reinforcement Learning

  14. Adversarial Test-Hardening for AI-Written Code: An Instrument Autopsy and a Pre-Registered Causal Estimate of the Critic Loop

    Jul 25, 2026Jeff OttersonAdversarial EvaluationCode Quality

  15. TriAgent: Divergence-Aware Multi-Agent Committees for Cost-Efficient Financial Sentiment Analysis

    Jul 22, 2026Isabel Xu, Cynthia Xu, Rachel Ren +2Financial Sentiment AnalysisCritic

  16. HCPG-Flow:Hierarchical Contact-Progress Guidance for Flow-Policy Robot Manipulation

    Jul 20, 2026Guanghu Xie, Mingxu Li, Shuo Zhang +5Multimodal Action DistributionsContact

  17. From Critic to Confidence: PPO for Language-Based Quantitative Prediction with Confidence Estimation

    Jul 14, 2026Mehak Dhaliwal, Rasta Tadayon, Andong Hua +2Large Language Model UncertaintyPolicy Optimization

  18. Critic Experience Bank: Self-Evolving Step-Level Confidence Estimation for LLM Agents

    Jul 14, 2026Yaopei Zeng, Congchao Wang, JianHang Chen +3Large Language Model AgentsConfidence Estimation

  19. Actor as Its Own Critic: Unifying Region Understanding and Localization via CycleGRPO

    Jul 13, 2026Xin Zhang, Haochen Wang, Yikang Zhou +3Large Multimodal ModelsLocalization

  20. Gauging, Measuring, and Controlling Critic Complexity in Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 1, 2026Konstantin GarbersSoft Actor-CriticCritic

  21. When LLMs Read Tables Carelessly: Measuring and Reducing Data Referencing Errors

    Jun 30, 2026Yuqing Yang, Qi Zhu, Zhen Han +5ErrorsCritic

  22. The Inattentional Gap: Task-Conditioned Language and Vision Models Omit the Safety-Critical Signals They Can Otherwise Report

    Jun 25, 2026Kwan Soo Shin, In Seok Kang, Yunkyung Min +2Artificial Intelligence SafetyBlind Spots

  23. Learning with a Single Rollout via Monte Carlo Pass@k Critic

    Jun 24, 2026Fengdi Che, Yang Liu, Lei Yu +4Direct Advantage EstimationToken-Level Supervision

  24. InterleaveThinker: Reinforcing Agentic Interleaved Generation

    Jun 11, 2026Dian Zheng, Harry Lee, Manyuan Zhang +4Ai-Generated ImagesCritic

  25. A History-Aware Visually Grounded Critic for Computer Use Agents

    Jun 9, 2026Jaewoo Lee, Zaid Khan, Archiki Prasad +7Computer-Use AgentsOption-Critic Framework

  26. Noisy memory encoding explains negative polarity illusions

    Jun 3, 2026Yuhan Zhang, Edward GibsonSurprisalNatural Language Processing

  27. When Helping Hurts and How to Fix It: Multi-Agent Debate for Data Cleaning

    Jun 1, 2026Chirag Parmar, Akshat Mehta, Henglin Wu +2Multi-Agent DebateDebate

  28. Critic-R: Improving Agentic Search using Instruction-tuned Retrievers with Natural Language Introspective Feedback

    May 30, 2026Md Zarif Ul Alam, Alireza Salemi, Hamed ZamaniAgentic SearchCritic

  29. Sample-Efficient Diffusion-based Reinforcement Learning with Critic Guidance

    May 28, 2026Shutong Ding, Zejia Zhong, Zhongyi Wang +4Diffusion PoliciesPolicy Gradient

  30. CRITIC-R1: Learning Structured Critics for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

    May 28, 2026Wenhan Xiao, Ziwei Zhang, Chuanyue Yu +4Retrieval-Augmented GenerationMulti-Hop Question Answering Benchmarks

  31. Explicit Critic Guidance for Aligning Diffusion Models

    May 26, 2026Zhengyang Liang, Qihang Zhang, Ceyuan YangDiffusion ModelsReward Gradients

  32. Don't Forget the Critic: Value-Based Data Rehearsal for Multi-Cyclic Continual Reinforcement Learning

    May 21, 2026Benjamin Poole, Andrew Quinn, Li Yang +1Catastrophic ForgettingSafe Reinforcement Learning

  33. FedCritic: Serverless Federated Critic Learning-based Resource Allocation for Multi-Cell OFDMA in 6G

    May 20, 2026Amin Farajzadeh, Melike Erol-KantarciOrthogonal Frequency-Division MultiplexingWireless Resource Allocation

  34. When Critics Disagree: Adaptive Reward Poisoning Attacks in RIS-Aided Wireless Control System

    May 19, 2026Deemah H. Tashman, Soumaya CherkaouiWireless NetworksCritic

  35. Inline Critic Steers Image Editing

    May 12, 2026Weitai Kang, Xiaohang Zhan, Yizhou Wang +4Image EditingContrastive Language-Image Pre-Training

  36. TOPPO: Rethinking PPO for Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning with Critic Balancing

    May 12, 2026Yuanpeng Li, Gefei Lin, Annie Qu +1Multi-Task Reinforcement LearningProximal Policy Optimization

  37. ReCrit: Transition-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Scientific Critic Reasoning

    May 11, 2026Wanghan Xu, Yuhao Zhou, Hengyuan Zhao +8CriticScientific Discovery

  38. Judge, Then Drive: A Critic-Centric Vision Language Action Framework for Autonomous Driving

    Apr 30, 2026Lijin Yang, Jianing Huang, Zhongzhan Huang +2Autonomous DrivingDrives

  39. Low-Rank Adaptation for Critic Learning in Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning

    Apr 21, 2026Yuan Zhuang, Yuexin Bian, Sihong He +7Off-Policy Reinforcement LearningOption-Critic Framework

  40. Constrained Group Relative Policy Optimization

    Feb 5, 2026Roger Girgis, Rodrigue de Schaetzen, Luke Rowe +3Policy OptimizationSingle Reward Model