Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

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  1. Improving Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning via Selective Reward Stimulation

    Sep 16, 2026Jing ZhangGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningObjectives

  2. Forty Shades of Blue: Quality-Diversity Alignment via Mode-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 14, 2026Jiayi Yuan, Hangoo Kang, James Jihao Liu +4DiversityLarge Language Model Alignment

  3. Topological Necessities: Mechanism-Invariant Strategic Subgoals for Cross-Embodiment Goal-Conditioned Control

    Sep 12, 2026Hao Shi, Xi LiContext-Aware Sub-Goal GenerationGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

  4. From Connectivity to Rewards: Dense Reward Learning with Directed State Graphs

    Sep 11, 2026Shuyuan Zhang, Zihan Wang, Xiao-Wen Chang +1Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningDirected Acyclic Graph

  5. SUN: Reaching for Novelty in Reinforcement Learning

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

  6. Learning Action Models with Conditional and Quantified Effects via Uncertainty-Guided Exploration

    Aug 31, 2026Jeffrey Jewett, William Solow, Sandhya SaisubramanianGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

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

    Aug 31, 2026Olivier Serris, Stéphane Doncieux, Olivier SigaudGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningGoal-Conditioned Policy

  8. Enhancing VLM Reward Models Through Structure-Aware Fine-Tuning

    Aug 4, 2026Pyrros Koussios, Chenhao Li, Xin Chen +1Reinforcement Fine-TuningLarge Vision Language Models

  9. FORGE-plus: Force-Budgeted Recovery for Contact-Rich Assembly with a Frozen LLM Supervisor

    Jul 23, 2026Kyupaeck Jeff Rah, Midum OhGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningContact-Rich Manipulation

  10. Offline RL with Hierarchical Action Chunking

    Jul 23, 2026Ahad JawaidGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningOffline Reinforcement Learning

  11. S3: Stable Subgoal Selection by Constraining Uncertainty of Coarse Dynamics in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 21, 2026Kshitij Kumar Srivastava, Kshitij JerathHierarchical Reinforcement LearningContext-Aware Sub-Goal Generation

  12. DAGR: State-Conditioned Goal Representations via Difference-Aware Goal Cross-Attention

    Jul 15, 2026Xing Lei, Wenyan Yang, Xuetao Zhang +1Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningCross-Attention

  13. NFTR: From Provable Mode-Averaging to Geodesic Subgoal Selection in Offline Goal-Conditioned RL

    Jul 8, 2026Erdemt Bao, Xing Lei, Jun ChenGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningReweighting

  14. Multi-Agent Goal Recognition with Team- and Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning and Factorized Branch-and-Bound

    Jun 24, 2026Thiago Thomas, Gabriel de Oliveira Ramos, Felipe MeneguzziMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningMulti-Robot Systems

  15. Inverting the Bellman Equation: From QQ-Values to World Models

    Jun 19, 2026Alistair Letcher, Mattie Fellows, Alexander D. Goldie +3Model-Free Reinforcement LearningGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

  16. Direction-Conditioned Policies via Compositional Subgoal Scoring for Online Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 15, 2026Swaminathan S K, Damiya Gondha, Theyanesh Eswaramoorthy Rajahkrishnan +1Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningGoal-Conditioned Policy

  17. Test-Time Gradient Guidance of Flow Policies in Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 9, 2026Zhiyuan Zhou, Andy Peng, Charles Xu +4Flow-Based PolicyImitation Learning

  18. Goal Sets, Not Goal States: Queryable Robot Goals through Goal-Set Hindsight Relabeling

    Jun 8, 2026Carlos Vélez García, Miguel Cazorla, Jorge PomaresGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningHindsight

  19. Dual Advantage Fields

    Jun 2, 2026Alexey Zemtsov, Maxim Bobrin, Alexander Nikulin +5Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningGoal-Conditioned Policy

  20. A Goal-Set Characterization of Task Composition in the Boolean Task Algebra

    Jun 2, 2026Eduardo Terrés-Caballero, Herke van HoofValue FunctionsGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

  21. Physics-informed Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning under Hybrid Contact Dynamics

    May 28, 2026Vittorio Giammarino, Anastasios Manganaris, Ahmed H. QureshiGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningInductive Bias

  22. Adaptive Coarse-to-Fine Subgoal Refinement for Long-Horizon Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

    May 27, 2026Kaiqiang Ke, Shenghong He, Chengdong Xu +3Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningHierarchical Reinforcement Learning

  23. Latent Representation Alignment for Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

    May 25, 2026Hyungkyu Kang, Byeongchan Kim, Min-hwan OhGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningGoal-Conditioned Policy

  24. Goal-Conditioned Agents that Learn Everything All at Once

    May 22, 2026Michael Matthews, Matthew Jackson, Michael Beukman +5Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningGoal-Conditioned Policy

  25. Abstraction for Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

    May 21, 2026Clarisse Wibault, Alexander Goldie, Antonio Villares +2Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningMarkov Decision Processes

  26. Compositional Transduction with Latent Analogies for Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

    May 20, 2026Junseok Kim, Dohyeong Kim, Mineui Hong +1Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningIn-Context Learning

  27. Switching Successor Measures for Hierarchical Zero-shot Reinforcement Learning

    May 13, 2026Stefan Stojanovic, Alexandre ProutiereHierarchical Reinforcement LearningGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

  28. Multi-scale Predictive Representations for Goal-conditioned Reinforcement Learning

    May 10, 2026Valliappan Chidambaram Adaikkappan, David Meger, Sai Rajeswar +1Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningRepresentation Learning

  29. Functional Graphs for Predicting and Explaining Goal Failure in Sparse Goal-Conditioned RL

    May 10, 2026Shalley DashGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningSparse Rewards

  30. Online Goal Recognition using Path Signature and Dynamic Time Warping

    May 8, 2026Douglas Tesch, Nathan Gavenski, Leonardo Amado +2Coverage Path PlanningMulti-Object Tracking

  31. Unifying Goal-Conditioned RL and Unsupervised Skill Learning via Control-Maximization

    May 7, 2026Alireza Modirshanechi, Benjamin Eysenbach, Peter Dayan +1Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningUnsupervised Skill Discovery

  32. Middle-mile logistics through the lens of goal-conditioned reinforcement learning

    May 4, 2026Onno Eberhard, Thibaut Cuvelier, Michal Valko +1Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningLast Mile

  33. QHyer: Q-conditioned Hybrid Attention-mamba Transformer for Offline Goal-conditioned RL

    May 3, 2026Xing Lei, Jincheng Wang, Xuetao Zhang +1Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningSequence Modeling

  34. PRTS: A Primitive Reasoning and Tasking System via Contrastive Representations

    Apr 30, 2026Yang Zhang, Jiangyuan Zhao, Chenyou Fan +11Executable Robot BehaviorRobot Policies

  35. Rule-based High-Level Coaching for Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning in Search-and-Rescue UAV Missions Under Limited-Simulation Training

    Apr 29, 2026Mahya Ramezani, Holger VoosUnmanned Aerial VehiclesGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

  36. A Probabilistic Framework for Hierarchical Goal Recognition

    Apr 24, 2026Chenyuan Zhang, Katherine Ip, Hamid Rezatofighi +2Context-Aware Sub-Goal GenerationHierarchical Reinforcement Learning

  37. Occupancy Reward Shaping: Improving Credit Assignment for Offline Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

    Apr 22, 2026Aravind Venugopal, Jiayu Chen, Xudong Wu +3Potential-Based Reward ShapingCredit Assignment

  38. Self-Guided Plan Extraction for Instruction-Following Tasks with Goal-Conditional Reinforcement Learning

    Apr 22, 2026Zoya Volovikova, Nikita Sorokin, Dmitriy Lukashevskiy +2Agentic Reinforcement-Learning FrameworkInstruction

  39. SVL: Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning as Survival Learning

    Apr 19, 2026Franki Nguimatsia Tiofack, Fabian Schramm, Théotime Le Hellard +1Goal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningGoal-Conditioned Policy

  40. Online Adaptation of Visual Odometry Frontends with Image-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

    Mar 23, 2026Simone Nascivera, Leonard Bauersfeld, Jeff Delaune +1Visual OdometryVision Sensors

  41. Beyond Success Rates: Trainability and Extractability for Offline GCRL

    Feb 5, 2026Jan Malte Töpperwien, Aditya Mohan, Marius LindauerGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningTrainability

  42. Chain-of-Goals Hierarchical Policy for Long-Horizon Offline Goal-Conditioned RL

    Feb 3, 2026Jinwoo Choi, Sang-Hyun Lee, Seung-Woo SeoGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningContext-Aware Sub-Goal Generation

  43. Offline Reinforcement Learning of High-Quality Behaviors Under Robust Style Alignment

    Jan 30, 2026Mathieu Petitbois, Rémy Portelas, Sylvain LamprierGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningOffline Reinforcement Learning

  44. Consistent Zero-Shot Imitation with Contrastive Goal Inference

    Oct 20, 2025Kathryn Wantlin, Chongyi Zheng, Benjamin EysenbachImitation LearningGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

  45. Reward function compression facilitates goal-dependent reinforcement learning

    Sep 8, 2025Gaia Molinaro, Anne G. E. CollinsGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningContext Compression

  46. Hybrid Sequence Modeling and Reinforced Verification for Controllable Target-Conditioned Decision Making

    Aug 22, 2025Yue Pei, Hongming Zhang, Chao Gao +7Goal-Conditioned PolicyGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

  47. Learning The Minimum Action Distance

    Jun 10, 2025Lorenzo Steccanella, Joshua B. Evans, Özgür Şimşek +1Markov Decision ProcessesGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

  48. CONTHER: Context-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Manipulation with Sparse Rewards

    Mar 20, 2025Maria Makarova, Qian Liu, Dzmitry TsetserukouGoal-Conditioned Reinforcement LearningRobotic Arms