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  1. Risk-Aware Online Conformal State Probing

    Sep 22, 2026Pietro Talli, Petar Popovski, Osvaldo SimeoneEfficient Exploration

  2. Efficient Reasoning Exploration via State-Conditioned Latent Steering with Progress Guidance

    Sep 21, 2026Hengyuan Zhang, Chenming Shang, Zunhai Su +10Efficient Exploration

  3. Spatial-Semantic Uncertainty in VLM-Based Target Search: Balancing Exploration and Identification

    Sep 17, 2026Alkesh K. Srivastava, Jonathan Diller, Vijay Kumar +1Vision-Language NavigationEfficient Exploration

  4. Pose-aware Legged Robot Semantic Exploration with Omnidirectional Perception in Confined Unknown Environments

    Sep 16, 2026Xiaoyang Zhan, Shiyu Chen, Kenji ShimadaRobotic PerceptionLegged Robots

  5. Exact Fusion and Coordinated Exploration in Multi-Robot Active Inference

    Sep 15, 2026Peng Wu, Mohsen Imani, Amidu Kamara +3Multi-Robot SystemsEfficient Exploration

  6. Communication-Constrained Multi-Robot Exploration With Adaptive Communication Windows

    Sep 14, 2026Ben Rossano, Jaein Lim, Jonathan P. HowMulti-Robot SystemsEfficient Exploration

  7. Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds

    Sep 14, 2026Tong Zheng, Xidong Wu, Zheng Zhang +14Efficient ExplorationRecursive Self-Improvement

  8. Application of curiosity driven exploration methods for hardware interference identification

    Sep 8, 2026Ludovic Matar, Clement Moulin-Frier, Pierre-Yves OudeyerInterferenceEfficient Exploration

  9. EvoNav-Bench: Benchmarking Lifelong Navigation in Evolving Environments

    Sep 8, 2026Xilin Wang, Guoxi Zhang, Hongming Xu +3EvolvingNavigation

  10. Efficient Exploration Is Enough

    Sep 7, 2026Mikel Malagón, Jon Vadillo, Josu Ceberio +2Efficient ExplorationSelf-Evolving Agents

  11. Explore More, Drift Less: Outcome-Only Reinforcement Learning Can Suffice for Long-Horizon Interactive Agents

    Sep 1, 2026Liming Pu, Xiaoxia Li, Yifu Liu +2Long-Horizon TasksEfficient Exploration

  12. HitMem: Hierarchical Temporal 3D Memory with Multi-Modal Context-Aware Retrieval for Dynamic Environments

    Sep 1, 2026Ruijie Tang, Chenye Zou, Guoquan Wu +3Spatial MemoryEfficient Exploration

  13. CIG-RL: Curiosity-Driven Information-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Source Term Estimation in Uncertain Environments

    Aug 31, 2026Junhee Lee, Seunghwan Kim, Hongro Jang +4Efficient ExplorationUncertainty-Aware Inference

  14. FUSE: Active Functional Affordance Grounding through Adaptive Semantic-Geometric Evidence Acquisition

    Aug 13, 2026Zhou Chen, Sathyanarayanan N. AakurAffordancesViewpoint-Dependent Active Perception

  15. Forward Trajectory Steering for Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability Analysis

    Aug 11, 2026Sungje Park, Stephen TuHamilton-Jacobi ReachabilityReachability

  16. Path-dependent Discrete Amortized Inference

    Aug 9, 2026Tiago da Silva, Esmeralda S. Whitammer, Salem LahlouMarkov Decision ProcessesPosterior

  17. ErgoSurf: Ergodic Control for the Coverage of Unknown Surfaces

    Aug 6, 2026Stefan Schneyer, Timo Bachmann, Maged Iskandar +4High-Fidelity Surface ReconstructionContact-Rich Manipulation

  18. Reward Structure Shapes the Interaction Between Episodic Exploration and Neural Memory in Reinforcement Learning

    Aug 5, 2026Jai Malegaonkar, Rohan Patil, Henrik I. ChristensenSparse RewardsExternal Reward Models

  19. Continuous Improvement and Parallel Autonomous Exploration: An LLM-Agent Framework for Searching Large Solution Spaces

    Aug 5, 2026Dulmini Hettiarachchi, Andre Rusli, Julio Christian Young +1Llm-Based AgentLarge Language Model Agents

  20. POMDPs for Autonomous Science Exploration

    Aug 4, 2026Daniel Guirguis, Nathan Wallace, Hanna Kurniawati +1Belief SpacePartially Observable Markov Decision Process

  21. Sharp Characterization of Bias in Post-Bandit Inference

    Aug 2, 2026Lisu Wang, Yilun Chen, Jiaqi LuRegretEfficient Exploration

  22. Identifying Informative Environments for Cognition Parameter Inference via Bayesian Experimental Design

    Jul 30, 2026Manisha Dubey, Rimvydas Rubavicius, N. Siddharth +1Bayesian Experimental DesignBayesian

  23. Rethinking Self-Evolution: A Constrained Exploration-Exploitation Process for Mitigating Skill Overfitting

    Jul 29, 2026Hongqiang Lin, Chao Liu, Xiaofan Bai +4Skill EvolutionLarge Language Model Agents

  24. Guiding Posterior Exploration with Optimizer-Derived Geometry

    Jul 28, 2026Moritz Schlager, Emanuel Sommer, Thomas Möllenhoff +1Bayesian Neural NetworksBayesian Optimization

  25. Try Once, Then Optimal: De-Redundified Procedure Memory for Cross-Episode Exploration Amortization

    Jul 26, 2026Haizhou Ge, Haochen Ouyang, Zhixing Chen +6Episodic ExperiencesEfficient Exploration

  26. Breaking the Total Variance Barrier: Sharp Sample Complexity for Linear Heteroscedastic Bandits with Fixed Action Set

    Jul 26, 2026Heyang Zhao, Tianyuan Jin, Weixin Wang +3Linear BanditsVariance Reduction

  27. FILLER: Feature Imputation via Latent Location Exploration and Retrieval

    Jul 25, 2026Santu Mondal, Chayan Maitra, Rajat K. DeMultivariate Time Series ImputationImputation

  28. Asymptotically Optimal Regret for Reinforcement Learning without Horizon Dependence

    Jul 22, 2026Runlong Zhou, Zihan Zhang, Maryam Fazel +1Exponential Horizon DependenceRegret

  29. PhoenixRepair: Rethinking Repair Strategy Exploration in Software Agents

    Jul 21, 2026Tianyue Jiang, Yanlin Wang, Xin He +7Fault DiagnosisEfficient Exploration

  30. SEE: Structure-aware Exploring \& Exploiting for Long-horizon GUI Agent Trajectory Synthesis

    Jul 20, 2026Zhuohang Fan, Beichen Zhang, Yuanfa Li +4Graphical User Interface AgentsGraphical User Interface

  31. Information-Based Exploration via Random Features for Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 20, 2026Waris Radji, Odalric-Ambrym MaillardEfficient ExplorationAutonomous Exploration Strategies

  32. Beyond Frontiers: Scene-Anomaly Guided Autonomous Exploration

    Jul 17, 2026Akash Kumbar, Abhinav Raundhal, Madhava Krishna3D ReconstructionEfficient Exploration

  33. Process Reward Informed Tree Rollout for Effective Multi-Turn RL

    Jul 17, 2026Xintong Li, Sha Li, Yuwei Zhang +8Autoregressive RolloutAgentic Reinforcement-Learning Framework

  34. Directional Constraints for Efficient Exploration in Safe Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 14, 2026Paolo Magliano, Puze Liu, Jan Peters +2Safety ConstraintsConstrained Reinforcement Learning

  35. Active Noise Floor Estimation for Reliability-Optimal POMDPs: A Value-of-Noise-Information Approach

    Jul 13, 2026Hyung-Jin YoonNoisy DataPartially Observable Markov Decision Process

  36. Q-Learning Lab: Teaching Reinforcement Learning Through Learner-Generated Trace Analysis

    Jul 12, 2026Ekkachai JuengQ-LearningDeep Reinforcement Learning

  37. Learning from Local Walks on Dynamic Graphs with Bandit Feedback

    Jul 12, 2026Sourav Chakraborty, Amit Kiran Rege, Claire Monteleoni +1BanditsEfficient Exploration

  38. Risk-Aware General-Utility Markov Decision Processes

    Jul 10, 2026Pedro P. Santos, Fábio Vital, Alberto Sardinha +1Markov Decision ProcessesConditional-Value-At-Risk

  39. Optimal Top-k Identification from Pairwise Comparisons

    Jul 9, 2026Motti Goldberger, Nils RudiOptimal Sample ComplexityTop-K

  40. UP: Unbounded Positive Asymmetric Optimization for Breaking the Exploration-Stability Dilemma

    Jul 8, 2026Chongyu Fan, Pengfei Liu, Jingjia Huang +2Multi-Objective Policy OptimizationEfficient Exploration

  41. Graph Sparse Sampling: Breaking the Curse of the Horizon in Continuous MDP Planning

    Jul 6, 2026Idan Lev-Yehudi, Vadim IndelmanClassical PlanningExponential Horizon Dependence

  42. SAVER: Stochastic Adaptive Variance-Driven Exploration and Reconstruction for Low-Dose Computed Tomography

    Jul 4, 2026Shunta Nonaga, Koji Tabata, Junya Honda +3Low-Dose Computed TomographyTomography

  43. EAGLE-360: Embodied Active Global-to-Local Exploration in 360^\circ

    Jul 2, 2026Jingtao Xu, Zizhuo Lin, Jianwen Sun +2Multiple Vision TasksSequential Visual Localization

  44. Multi-Objective Exploration and Preference Optimization via Mutual Information

    Jul 1, 2026Hongyan Xie, Yikun Ban, Ruiyu Fang +4Efficient ExplorationMutual Information

  45. FastDSAC: Enhancing Policy Plasticity via Constrained Exploration for Scalable Humanoid Locomotion

    Jun 30, 2026Guanchen Lu, Yajuan Dun, Yi Zhou +4Deep Reinforcement LearningEfficient Exploration

  46. Dual-Flow Reinforcement Learning with State-Aware Exploration

    Jun 29, 2026Qijun Li, Zheng Fu, Qi Song +4Flow-Based PolicyDeep Reinforcement Learning

  47. Randomized Exploration for Linear Bandits via Absolute Perturbations

    Jun 26, 2026Toshinori Kitamura, Shuai Liu, Csaba SzepesváriThompson SamplingLinear Bandits

  48. Semantic-Aware Autonomous Exploration for UAVs in Unknown Indoor Environments

    Jun 21, 2026Duc-Thien Nguyen, Ngoc Minh Do, Xiem HoangVan +1Unmanned Aerial Vehicles3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction

  49. Ranking-and-Selection with Multiple Correct Answers and Non-Answerable Estimates

    Jun 20, 2026Qiaoqiao Wang, Wei YouRankingEfficient Exploration

  50. When Is an LLM Worth It for Hyperparameter Optimization? A Budget-Matched Study on Tabular Data Finds the Warm-Start Is a Default Configuration, Not the Model

    Jun 19, 2026Carson Rodrigues, Oysturn Vas, Isaiah Abner DCosta +1Hyperparameter OptimizationCold-Start

  51. Quantile of Means: A Bonus-Free Ensemble Method for Minimax Optimal Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 18, 2026Asaf Cassel, Aviv RosenbergEfficient ExplorationMulti-Armed Bandits

  52. DF-ExpEnse: Diffusion Filtered Exploration for Sample Efficient Finetuning

    Jun 17, 2026Calvin Luo, Chen Sun, Shuran SongEfficient ExplorationAutonomous Exploration Strategies

  53. GraphPO: Graph-based Policy Optimization for Reasoning Models

    Jun 17, 2026Yuliang Zhan, Xinyu Tang, Jian Li +7Reasoning PathsReinforcement Learning With Verifiable Reward

  54. EvolveNav: Proactive Preflection and Self-Evolving Memory for Zero-Shot Object Goal Navigation

    Jun 16, 2026Qi Chai, Wenhao Shen, Nanjie Yao +5Vision-Language NavigationSelf-Evolving Agents

  55. ED3R: Energy-Aware Distributed Disaster Detection Enabled by Cooperative Robotic Agents

    Jun 16, 2026Lina Magoula, Nikolaos Koursioumpas, Nancy Alonistioti +1Wildfire DetectionMulti-Robot Systems

  56. Infant Spontaneous Movement Noise Improves Exploration in Deep RL

    Jun 15, 2026Francisco M. López, Markus R. Ernst, Francisco Cruz +2Deep Reinforcement LearningEfficient Exploration

  57. SkillWiki: A Living Knowledge Infrastructure for Agent Skills

    Jun 15, 2026Dingcheng Huang, Yuda Ding, Bingshuo Liu +8Reusable Agent SkillsWikipedia

  58. VANDERER: Map-Free Exploration using Future-Aware and Visual-Curiosity-Guided Diffusion Policy

    Jun 12, 2026Venkata Naren Devarakonda, Raktim Gautam Goswami, Prashanth Krishnamurthy +1Efficient ExplorationAutonomous Exploration Strategies

  59. Discovery under Hypothesis Redundancy: A Geometric Theory of Discovery Bottlenecks

    Jun 12, 2026Li Xia, Baoxun WangHypothesis GenerationEfficient Exploration

  60. MeEvo: Metacognitive Evolution Combined with Natural Evolution for Automatic Heuristic Design

    Jun 12, 2026Zishang Qiu, Xinan Chen, Rong Qu +1Evolutionary SearchLlm-Driven