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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. Evolution or Illusion? Rethinking Evaluation in LLM Evolutionary Search

    Sep 17, 2026Tal Oved, Roi Pony, Oshri Naparstek +1Evolutionary SearchSearch Algorithms

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

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

  6. Taming the Agentic RAN: Stability-Guaranteed Arbitration of Autonomous AI Agents in O-RAN

    Sep 16, 2026Seyed Bagher Hashemi Natanzi, Bo TangOpen Radio Access NetworksMulti-Agent Orchestration Frameworks

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

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

  8. RSIAgent: Autonomous Exploration for Recursive Self-improvement in New Environments

    Sep 14, 2026Sibo Zhu, Shicheng Fan, Xinyue Wang +3Self-Evolving AgentsAgentic Reinforcement-Learning Framework

  9. Enabling Creative Exploration for Vibe Design Agents

    Sep 14, 2026Yifan Zhang, Nghi D. Q. Bui, Georgios Evangelopoulos +1Interaction DesignVibe Coding

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

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

  11. VRL-Bench: Benchmarking agents on computer control tasks under finite trial budgets

    Sep 14, 2026Yu Bai, Yukai Miao, Dawei Wang +8Exploration-Exploitation DilemmaDeep Reinforcement Learning

  12. Optimizing for the decision not the prediction: an exploration of Smooth Net Benefit as a training objective

    Sep 14, 2026Koen M. F. Gorgels, Lasai Barreñada, Maarten van Smeden +3Logistic RegressionClinical Prediction

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

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

  14. Enabling Knowledge Graph Understanding at Scale with the EXplore Your Graphs ENgine (EXYGEN)

    Sep 12, 2026Harshdeep Singh, Yurui Zhu, Giovanni Colavizza +1Knowledge GraphsSparql

  15. MHE-Former: Multi-Hypothesis Transformers via Entropy Maximization for 3D Mesh Recovery

    Sep 11, 2026Boshu Jia, Rongyu Chen, Linlin Yang +9Human Mesh Recovery3D Hand

  16. When Information is Worth the Risk: Behavioral Valuation for Hazardous Robotic Exploration

    Sep 11, 2026Alkesh K. Srivastava, Aamodh Suresh, Carlos Nieto-Granda +1HazardConditional-Value-At-Risk

  17. World in World: Explore the World with World Models

    Sep 11, 2026Chenxi Song, Yanming Yang, Chi ZhangVideo World ModelsAutoregressive Video Generation

  18. Valerant: An Automatic Navigable Game Map Generator via Action-Conditioned World Model Exploration

    Sep 8, 2026Yiran Qiao, Feng Wang, Jing Ma3D World3D Mapping

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

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

  20. SUN: Reaching for Novelty in Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 8, 2026Wenyan Yang, Arsenii Mustafin, Dominik Baumann +2Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningAutonomous Exploration Strategies

  21. TASG-Explore: Traversability-Aware Sector-Guided Exploration for Ground Robot on Uneven Terrain

    Sep 8, 2026Shaocong Wang, Shiliang Shao, Ting Wang +2TraversabilityTerrain

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

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

  23. Agentic ML Exploration (A-MLE) for Ads Ranking

    Sep 8, 2026Erwin Gao, Vinodh Kumar Sunkara, Jingyi Guan +36Mle-Bench LiteLate-Stage Ranker

  24. Efficient Exploration Is Enough

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

  25. OpenWAM: An Open, Modular Exploration Towards Systematic World-Action Model Pretraining

    Sep 7, 2026Yuran Wang, Siqiao Huang, Mingleyang Li +21Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

  26. MineTRACE: An Evidence-Grounded Interactive Reasoning System for Mineral Prospectivity

    Sep 2, 2026Yiran Zhang, Jinwen Liu, Daniel Su +7Lithology ClassificationData Mining

  27. Explore Before Committing: Hypothesis-Guided Search for Deep Research Agents

    Sep 1, 2026Ruochen Zhou, Zhengyu Chen, Luan Zhang +3Search AgentsDeepseek

  28. 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

  29. 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

  30. Towards Generalizable Visually Grounded Exploration of Household Devices

    Sep 1, 2026Linhao Zheng, Zeming Liu, Wangke Chen +4Embodied AgentsExplicit Visual Grounding

  31. 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

  32. TSExplorer: An interactive data annotation and exploration tool for time-series data

    Aug 31, 2026Einari Vaaras, Manu Airaksinen, Okko RäsänenVisual AnalyticsTime Series

  33. Towards Cognitive Process-Aware Proactive Writing Support

    Aug 31, 2026Masahiro Yoshida, Atsuya Kobayashi, Kei Tateno +1Ai-Assisted WritingWriting

  34. Answer Probing-Guided Search for Diverse Solution Exploration of LLMs

    Aug 31, 2026Yi Fang, Que Shen, Chengpeng Li +6Large Language Model ReasoningReasoning Paths

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

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

  36. Scalable Multi-Agent Maze Traversal with Local Communication

    Aug 12, 2026Julian Rau, Jahir Argote-Gerald, Grace McFassel +3Multi-Agent Path FindingPlanar Mazes

  37. Forward Trajectory Steering for Hamilton-Jacobi Reachability Analysis

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

  38. Parameter Exploration for RLVR via Variational Learning

    Aug 10, 2026Vatsal Venkatkrishna, Nico Daheim, Iryna GurevychReinforcement Learning With Verifiable RewardDeep Reinforcement Learning

  39. Sekai2: From World Exploration to Interactive World Modeling

    Aug 10, 2026Kang He, Wenshuo Peng, Zihui Gao +3Video World ModelsVideo Dataset

  40. Path-dependent Discrete Amortized Inference

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

  41. A Hybrid Nested Harness for Decoupling Structure and Parameters in LLM-Driven Optimization

    Aug 8, 2026Víctor GallegoLlm-Based Optimization ModelingOptimizer Design

  42. Explore, Map, Remember, Decide: Are Embodied VLMs Ready for Safety-Critical Scenarios?

    Aug 8, 2026Gabriele La Malfa, Nitay Alon, Emanuele La Malfa +2Large Vision Language ModelsSpatial Reasoning

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

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

  44. SkillHEX: Improving Agent Skills via Hypothesis-Driven Autonomous Exploration and Exploitation

    Aug 6, 2026Yuru Feng, Yaoqi Chen, Beidi Zhao +7Skill EvolutionExploitation

  45. 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

  46. ORACLE: A Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning-Based Analog Circuit Design Optimizer with Large Language Models-Guided Exploration

    Aug 5, 2026Osei Brempong, Mohammed Ayman Habib, Vivan Poddar +1Analog CircuitsConstrained Reinforcement Learning

  47. 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

  48. POMDPs for Autonomous Science Exploration

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

  49. Fetch-then-Explore: Decoupling Selection from Extraction over a Persistent Workspace for Search Agents

    Aug 3, 2026Qi Liu, Yiqun Chen, Zidan Chen +6Autonomous Exploration StrategiesWorkspaces

  50. Instruction-Conditioned Exploration for Reinforcement Learning with Self-Distillation to an Unconditioned Policy

    Aug 3, 2026Jim Dilkes, Vahid Yazdanpanah, Sebastian SteinInstruction-Tuned ModelsGoal-Conditioned Policy

  51. Sharp Characterization of Bias in Post-Bandit Inference

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

  52. Explore Beyond the Boundary Using Entropic Information

    Jul 31, 2026Bumgeun Park, Donghwan LeeSparse RewardsAutonomous Exploration Strategies

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

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

  54. X-NavDP: Generalizing Navigation Diffusion Policy to Novel Behavior and Embodiments with Group Q-score Reweighted Matching

    Jul 30, 2026Tianyu Yang, Yiming Zeng, Wenzhe Cai +5Diffusion PoliciesEmbodied Navigation

  55. Agents That Certify Their Own Exploits: Confidence-Scheduled Restricted Responses for Safe Opponent Exploitation

    Jul 30, 2026Boning Li, Longbo HuangExploitationImperfect-Information Games

  56. Argonaut: Interactive Visual Exploration for Distributed Optimization

    Jul 30, 2026Srijoni Majumdar, Chuhao Qin, Evangelos PournarasAgentic OptimizationDistributed Optimization

  57. 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

  58. Cooperative Multi-UAV Navigation in Complex Environments via Systematic Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 28, 2026Yu Su, Nabil AoufMulti-Uav SystemsMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

  59. Guiding Posterior Exploration with Optimizer-Derived Geometry

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

  60. Decentralized Scalable Exploration via Emergent Adaptive Lévy Walks on Minimal-Sensing Platforms

    Jul 28, 2026Wai Lun Leong, Teo Swee Huat RodneyMulti-Uav SystemsAutonomous Exploration Strategies