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  1. SimAuthor: Harnessing Foundation Models for Persistent Scientific Simulator Authoring

    Oct 5, 2026Yishan Wang, Ran Piao, Mathias Funk +1User SimulationSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

    Eindhoven University of Technology

  2. Factoriax: A GPU-Accelerated Factorio-Style Simulator for Reinforcement Learning

    Oct 4, 2026Mickey Beurskens, Tristan Tomilin, Thiago D. SimãoSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

    Eindhoven University of Technology

  3. Grounding Large Language Models in DSGE Simulators for Policy Generation and Forecasting

    Oct 1, 2026Aditya Dubey, Namah Gupta, Vinti AgarwalLarge Language Model Policy OptimizationSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

    Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India

  4. Network World Models as Environments for Algorithm Design on Complex Systems

    Oct 1, 2026Rishab Alagharu, Hongji Pu, Zeeshan Memon +3Efficient World-Action ModelAgent-Based Model

    Emory University · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  5. Getting Out and Getting Back: World and Behavior Grounding in Real2Sim2Real Co-Training

    Sep 30, 2026Samuel Liu, Youngsun Kim, Martin Matak +1Simulation-Based Reinforcement LearningContextual Grounding

    University of Cambridge · Industrial Next

  6. Token-World: World Modeling in Vision-Language Model Token Space for Robot Manipulation

    Sep 30, 2026Chuyao Fu, Xiaowei Chi, Yuhan Rui +14Efficient World-Action ModelWorld Models

    Southern University of Science and Technology · MUKA Robotics · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology +3

  7. From Learner Behavior to Reusable Skills for Effective and Efficient Learner Simulation

    Sep 29, 2026Zijian Chen, Zheng Zhang, Miao Jia +3User SimulationSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

    National University of Defense Technology · Nanyang Technological University · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University +1

  8. ARS: Agentic Reward System for Robot Learning

    Sep 28, 2026Sheng Hu, Weiyi Lu, Lingbing Zeng +5Scalable Robot LearningProgress Reward Modeling

    AIRC, Midea Group

  9. WTF?! Simulation-Free Reinforcement Learning with Wasserstein-Tilted Flow Maps

    Sep 22, 2026Abbas Mammadov, Jerry Y. Huang, Justin Lin +5Generative Flow NetworksReinforcement Fine-Tuning

    University of Oxford · Carnegie Mellon University

  10. ReVeal: A Reconstruction-Aware Real-to-Sim Framework for VLA Policy Evaluation

    Sep 20, 2026Xinyi Wang, Heng Hao, Wenjun Hu +5Simulation-Based Reinforcement LearningEvaluation Benchmarks

    Purdue University · Samsung SDS Research America

  11. XPACE: Joint World and Action Modeling from Heterogeneous Experience

    Sep 15, 2026Jiacheng Wei, Jerry Bai, Xiaoyu Yue +13Efficient World-Action ModelSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

    World Model Team, XPENG Robotics

  12. Calibrate Once, Fly Any Team: Residual-Grounded Low-Fidelity Training for Cooperative Drone Swarms

    Sep 15, 2026Maxim Mednikov, Oren GalMulti-Drone CoordinationUnmanned Aerial Vehicle Swarms

    Swarm & AI Lab (SAIL), University of Haifa, Israel

  13. Proprioception-Anchored Cross-Modal Pretraining for Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Contact-Rich Assembly

    Sep 7, 2026Yuhan Wang, Yurou Chen, Hongye Jiang +2Sim-To-Real Reinforcement LearningProprioception

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · University of Sussex

  14. Provably Safe Sim-to-Real Transfer

    Sep 1, 2026Tingting Ni, Maryam KamgarpourSim-To-Real Reinforcement LearningSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

    SYCAMORE, EPFL

  15. Measuring the Behavioral Fidelity of Long-Horizon Human Activity Simulations

    Sep 1, 2026Yi Fei Cheng, Fan Yang, Iremsu Bas +3User SimulationBehavioral Foundation Models

    Human-Computer Interaction Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan · Fujitsu Research of America, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

  16. One Frozen Simulator Is Not Enough: Simulator Collapse in Multi-Agent RL

    Aug 12, 2026Simon Yu, Nicholas Tomlin, Marwa Abdulhai +7Multi-Agent SimulationsSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

    1Northeastern University · 2New York University · 3UC Berkeley +2

  17. LLM-Guided Heuristic Design from Simulation Traces: A Case Study in Dynamic Production and AGV Scheduling

    Aug 10, 2026Jinbo Li, Chuanhao LiAutomated Heuristic DesignAgentic Optimization

    Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University

  18. V-Simba: Unleashing the Architectural Potential of RL in Visual Continuous Control

    Aug 8, 2026Donghu Kim, Youngdo Lee, Hojoon Lee +6Simulation-Based Reinforcement LearningScalable Robot Learning

    KAIST · Mila – Québec AI Institute · Université de Montréal +2

  19. Simulation-free and finite-time diffusion model

    Aug 4, 2026Kentaro Kaba, Masayuki Ohzeki, Yuki SughiyamaDiffusion ModelsConditional Distribution

    Department of Physics, Institute of Science Tokyo, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-9551, Japan · 2Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi 980-9564, Japan · 3Research and Education Institute for Semiconductors and Informatics, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, Kumamoto 860-8555, Japan +1

  20. CoRenew: A large language model agent-based policy simulation platform for multifamily residential redevelopment

    Jul 28, 2026Yudi Zhang, Yuming Lin, Li Tian +2Multi-Agent SimulationsNegotiation

    Department of Urban Planning, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China · Department of City and Regional Planning, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA · Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

  21. When Every Simulation Counts: Value-Based Reinforcement Learning for Accelerated Photonics Inverse Design

    Jul 26, 2026Longying Wen, Feiyang Wu, Jinglin Yu +3NanophotonicDeep Q-Networks

    School of Science and Engineering The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Shenzhen, China · Nick Holonyak Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Urbana, Illinois, USA

  22. Sling2Sim2Real: One-Shot Elastic System Identification for Non-Destructive Slingshot Policy Learning

    Jul 25, 2026Wonjae Kang, Geonwoo Kim, Minseok Song +1Sim-To-Real Reinforcement LearningSim-To-Real Gap

    School of Computing, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

  23. Learning and Structurally Validating Simulation Scenario Continuations in Dynamic Graph Systems

    Jul 23, 2026Michael Romei de Socio, Gian Luca Pozzato, Alessio MerloScenario GenerationContinuation

    CASD – School of Advanced Defense Studies, 00165 Rome, Italy · Department of Computer Science, University of Turin, 10149 Turin, Italy

  24. The Open Ant: A Robot Platform for Reinforcement Learning Research

    Jul 20, 2026Elena Sorina Lupu, Patrick Spieler, Khurram Javed +4Simulation-Based Reinforcement LearningEcosystems

    Openmind Research Institute, Canada · Keen Technologies · Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada

  25. PAMD: Structured Adaptive Distances for Bisimulation Representations in Visual Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 20, 2026Daegyeong Roh, Juho Bae, Han-Lim ChoiSimulation-Based Reinforcement LearningDistance

    Department of Aerospace Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejon, Republic of Korea.

  26. Step-Level Preference Learning for Generative Agents in Social Simulations

    Jul 16, 2026Wenchang Gao, Pingyue Sheng, Lanlan Qiu +7Preference LearningSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

    Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute · Tsinghua University · Xiongan AI Institute +3

  27. Learning Safe Agent Behaviour from Human Preferences and Justifications via World Models

    Jul 14, 2026Ilias Kazantzidis, Timothy J. Norman, Yali Du +1Simulation-Based Reinforcement LearningReward Functions

    University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, United Kingdom · King’s College London, London WC2R 2LS, United Kingdom

  28. Bridging Local Observation and Global Simulation in Closed-Loop Traffic Modeling

    Jun 30, 2026Ziyan Wang, Tan Xiang, Peng Chen +1Microscopic Traffic SimulationsTraffic

    The University of Hong Kong · Beihang University

  29. What Probing Reveals about Autonomous Driving: Linking Internal Prediction Errors to Ego Planning

    Jun 30, 2026Hyeonchang Jeon, Kyungbeom Kim, Eugene Vinitsky +1Autonomous DrivingPrediction Error

    1Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) · 2New York University

  30. SimFoundry: Modular and Automated Scene Generation for Policy Learning and Evaluation

    Jun 26, 2026Nadun Ranawaka, Josiah Wong, Wei-Lin Pai +15Sim-To-Real Reinforcement LearningSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

    NVIDIA · Stanford University · The University of Texas at Austin +2

  31. Position: RL Researchers Need to Distinguish Between Solving Simulators and Using Simulators as a Proxy

    Jun 26, 2026Matthew Vandergrift, Esraa Elelimy, Martha WhiteSimulation-Based Reinforcement LearningUser Simulation

    Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta · Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) · Canada CIFAR AI Chair

  32. Superhuman AI for Generals.io Using Self-Play Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 22, 2026Matej Straka, Viliam Lisý, Martin SchmidSelf-PlaySimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

    Department of Applied Mathematics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic · Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic · Charles University +1

  33. Learning User Simulators with Turing Rewards

    Jun 17, 2026Yingshan Susan Wang, Cedegao E. Zhang, Linlu Qiu +5User SimulationSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Stanford University · MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab

  34. ReactSim-Bench: Benchmarking Reactive Behavior World Model Simulation in Autonomous Driving

    Jun 12, 2026Zhiyuan Zhang, Yanlun Peng, Jianing Zhang +7Autonomous Driving SimulationAutonomous Driving

    Sch. of Computer Science & Sch. of Artificial Intelligence, Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Great Wall Motor · Institute of Trustworthy Embodied AI (TEAI), Fudan University +2

  35. TacCoRL: Integrating Tactile Feedback into VLA via Simulation

    Jun 10, 2026Siyu Ma, Yuqi Liang, Chang Yu +5TactileSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

    University of California, Los Angeles · University of California, San Diego · 4Peking University +1

  36. PLUME: Probabilistic Latent Unified World Modeling and Parameter Estimation for Multi-Finger Manipulation

    Jun 9, 2026Abhinav Kumar, Soshi Iba, Rana Soltani Zarrin +1Latent World ModelsSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

    University of Michigan · Honda Research Institute USA

  37. HARBOR: A Harness Framework for Agentic Robot Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 7, 2026Zechu Li, Yufeng Jin, Xiaoyang Liu +4Scalable Robot LearningSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

    TU Darmstadt 1 · Hessian.AI 7 · Honda Research Institute Europe 2 +4

  38. Agentic Monte Carlo: Simulating Reinforcement Learning for Black-Box Agents

    Jun 3, 2026Dae Yon Hwang, Raunaq Suri, Valentin Villecroze +4Agentic Reinforcement LearningLarge Language Model Agents

    Layer 6 AI, Toronto, Canada.

  39. UniLab: A Heterogeneous Architecture for Robot RL Beyond GPU-Dominant Paradigms

    May 28, 2026Yufei Jia, Zhanxiang Cao, Mingrui Yu +48Simulation-Based Reinforcement LearningScalable Robot Learning

  40. AgentCVR: Active Multi-Agent Cross-Video Reasoning via Script-Simulated Reinforcement Learning

    May 28, 2026Yilun Qiu, Jiahe Wang, Cilin Yan +4Multimodal AgentsSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

    Xiaohongshu Inc. · Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University

  41. Theoretical Foundations and Effective Algorithms for Policy-Aware Simulator Learning

    May 27, 2026Christoph Dann, Yishay Mansour, Mehryar MohriSimulation-Based Reinforcement LearningModel-Based Reinforcement Learning

    Google Research · Tel Aviv University and Google Research · Google Research and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

  42. Accelerating Reinforcement Learning Training Using Simulation Surrogate Models

    May 26, 2026Mohammadmahdi Ghasemloo, David J. Eckman, Yaxian LiSimulation-Based Reinforcement LearningSurrogate Models

    Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA · Intuit AI, Mountain View, CA, USA

  43. From Static Context to Calibrated Interactive RL: Mitigating Distribution Shift in Multi-turn Dialogue with Aligned Simulator

    May 26, 2026Xiaohua Wang, Jiakang Yuan, Zisu Huang +5User SimulationSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

    Fudan University

  44. MobileGym: A Verifiable and Highly Parallel Simulation Platform for Mobile GUI Agent Research

    May 25, 2026Dingbang Wu, Rui Hao, Haiyang Wang +8SkillgymSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

    Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Peking University · The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  45. Robotic Strawberry Harvesting with Robust Vision and Deep Reinforcement Learning based Sim-to-Real Control

    May 22, 2026Al Bashir, Shao-Yang Chang, Partho Ghose +3Agricultural RoboticsSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

    Department of Biological & Agricultural Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA · Department of Biomechatronics Engineering, National Taiwan University, 10617, Taipei City, Taiwan · Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Texas A&M University System, Dallas, TX 75252, USA

  46. Mind the Sim-to-Real Gap & Think Like a Scientist

    May 20, 2026Harsh Parikh, Gabriel Levin-Konigsberg, Dominique Perrault-Joncas +1Simulation-Based Reinforcement LearningSim-To-Real Gap

    Amazon SCOT, Seattle, USA · Yale University, New Haven, USA · Duke University, Durham, USA

  47. FutureSim: Replaying World Events to Evaluate Adaptive Agents

    May 14, 2026Shashwat Goel, Nikhil Chandak, Arvindh Arun +5Simulation-Based Reinforcement LearningReplay

    1ELLIS Institute Tübingen · 2Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems · 4Tübingen AI Center +3

  48. Controllable User Simulation

    May 12, 2026Guy Tennenholtz, Ofer Meshi, Amir Globerson +3User SimulationSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

    † Google Research · ‡ Tel Aviv University

  49. Beyond Self-Play: Hierarchical Reasoning for Continuous Motion in Closed-Loop Traffic Simulation

    May 9, 2026Weifan Zhang, Xiaofeng Zhao, Adel Bazzi +3Microscopic Traffic SimulationsMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Isuzu Technical Center of America, Plymouth, MI, USA · School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA

  50. EnvSimBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating and Improving LLM-Based Environment Simulation

    May 8, 2026Yi Liu, TingFeng Hui, Wei Zhang +4Synthetic EnvironmentsSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Chongqing University

  51. Using Common Random Numbers for Simulation-based Planning with Rollouts

    May 6, 2026Sandarbh Yadav, Frederic J Maliakkal, Harshad Khadilkar +1RandomSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay, India

  52. SAVGO: Learning State-Action Value Geometry with Cosine Similarity for Continuous Control

    May 1, 2026Stavros Orfanoudakis, Pedro P. VergaraSimulation-Based Reinforcement LearningGeometric Machine Learning

    Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

  53. Physics-Guided Dimension Reduction for Simulation-Free Operator Learning of Stiff Differential-Algebraic Systems

    Apr 21, 2026Huy Hoang Le, Haoguang Wang, Christian Moya +2Ordinary Differential EquationsJacobian

    School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 USA · Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907 USA · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102 USA

  54. SOCIA-EVO: Automated Simulator Construction via Dual-Anchored Bi-Level Optimization

    Apr 19, 2026Yuncheng Hua, Sion Weatherhead, Mehdi Jafari +2AlphaevolveSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia

  55. Meituan Merchant Business Diagnosis via Policy-Guided Dual-Process User Simulation

    Apr 16, 2026Ziyang Chen, Renbing Chen, Daowei Li +4User SimulationSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

    LongCat Interaction Team, Meituan Inc. Beijing, China · Independent Researcher Changsha, China

  56. WoVR: World Models as Reliable Simulators for Post-Training VLA Policies with RL

    Feb 15, 2026Zhennan Jiang, Shangqing Zhou, Yutong Jiang +11Video World ModelsSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Zhongguancun Academy +2

  57. Posterior-driven Heuristic Support Adaptation in a Probabilistic Treatment of Real2Sim2Real for Vision-Driven Deformable Linear Object Manipulation

    Oct 30, 2025Georgios Kamaras, Craig Innes, Subramanian RamamoorthyDeformable Linear ObjectsInference-Time Steering

    School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, EH8 9AB, UK. · Heriot-Watt University · UKRI Turing AI World Leading Researcher Fellowship on AI for Person-Centred and Teachable Autonomy

  58. Simulation-free Structure Learning for Stochastic Population Dynamics

    Oct 18, 2025Noah El Rimawi-Fine, Adam Stecklov, Lucas Nelson +4Population DynamicsStochastic Dynamics

    McGill University · Mila – Quebec AI Institute · AITHYRA +5

  59. Climate Surrogates for Scalable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: A Case Study with CICERO-SCM

    Oct 9, 2025Oskar Bohn Lassen, Serio Angelo Maria Agriesti, Filipe Rodrigues +2Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningSimulation-Based Reinforcement Learning

    Technical University of Denmark Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

  60. AgentDynEx: Nudging the Mechanics and Dynamics of Multi-Agent Simulations

    Apr 13, 2025Jenny Ma, Riya Sahni, Karthik Sreedhar +1Multi-Agent SimulationsUser Simulation

    Columbia University New York City, USA