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  1. Cloud Workflow Scheduling Based on Graph Attention-Driven Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 14, 2026Zongjin Li, Shaohan Feng, Chunxi Yang +1Hierarchical Reinforcement LearningExecution Efficiency

  2. HiRAD: A Flexible Large-Scale AGV Routing System

    Sep 9, 2026Yunjie Huang, Ruizhong Wu, Mengxuan Zhang +3Warehouse AutomationVehicle Routing Problem

  3. ToSCA: Leveraging Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning on Temporal and Strategic Abstractions of Conversational Agents

    Aug 22, 2026Xiaoyu Wang, Qingqing Gu, Yue Zhao +5Hierarchical Reinforcement LearningAgentic Reinforcement-Learning Framework

  4. LUCID: Latent-Skill Unified Control via Imagined Dynamics for Long-Horizon Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

    Aug 7, 2026Cheng Guo, Mingzhe Ni, Angelo Cangelosi +1Humanoid Loco-ManipulationLong-Horizon Planning

  5. Neurosymbolic Reasoning with Incremental Knowledge for Sample Efficient Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

    Aug 4, 2026Subrat Prasad Panda, Blaise Genest, Arvind EaswaranHierarchical Reinforcement LearningNeuro-Symbolic Framework

  6. Sample Efficient Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning via Best Policy Identification

    Jul 31, 2026Anders Jonsson, Emilie Kaufmann, Gianmarco Tedeschi +1Hierarchical Reinforcement LearningOptimal Sample Complexity

  7. Track-Guided Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Vehicle Drifting with Minimum-Lap-Time Planning

    Jul 31, 2026Sheng Zhao, Bolin Zhao, Xiaodong Wu +1Autonomous RacingIterative Reinforcement Learning

  8. Hierarchical Soft Actor-Critic for Sparse-Reward Long-Horizon Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 26, 2026Zahra Abdalla Elashaal, Afef Hfaiedh, Nahla Khraief +2Hierarchical Reinforcement LearningSparse Rewards

  9. Two-Timescale Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Resilient Operations

    Jul 26, 2026Young Hyun Cho, Franz Stoll, Will Wei Sun +2Hierarchical Reinforcement LearningResilience

  10. On the Runtime Analysis of Reinforcement Learning Hyper-Heuristics

    Jul 24, 2026Pietro S. Oliveto, Zhenyu Wang, Peizhou Wu +1HeuristicsHierarchical Reinforcement Learning

  11. Compact Latent Coordination for Autonomous Vehicles at Unsignalized Intersections

    Jul 23, 2026Gil Lifshits, Igal Bilik, Gilad KatzMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningAutonomous Driving

  12. Adaptive Multi-Horizon Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 22, 2026Manoosh Samiei, Doina Precup, Paul MassetHierarchical Reinforcement LearningExponential Horizon Dependence

  13. 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

  14. Vision-Based Obstacle Separation for Strawberry Harvesting in Clusters Using Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 15, 2026Teng Li, Hanfei Shi, Chunjiang Zhao +1Agricultural RobotsFruit

  15. Mind the Gap: Promises and Pitfalls of Hierarchical Planning in LeWorldModel

    Jul 14, 2026Niccolò Caselli, Francesco Massafra, Samuele Punzo +3Context-Aware Sub-Goal GenerationLong-Horizon Planning

  16. HiFuzz: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Semantic-Aware and Adaptive CPU Fuzzing

    Jul 7, 2026Ya Wang, Hanwei Fan, Zhenguo Liu +4FuzzingRisc-V

  17. Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning in StarCraft Micromanagement with Influence Maps and Cluster-based Scripts

    Jun 29, 2026Chunhui Bai, Changhe Li, Dequan Li +2Hierarchical Reinforcement LearningDeep Reinforcement Learning

  18. Hierarchical Decision Making with Structured Policies: A Principled Design via Inverse Optimization

    Jun 27, 2026Yuexuan Wang, Jingyuan Zhou, Kaidi YangHierarchical Reinforcement LearningControl System Operator Learning

  19. Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Neural Network Compression (HiReLC): Pruning and Quantization

    Jun 24, 2026Kamar Hibatallah Baghdadi, Kawther Guoual Belhamidi, Sara Belhadj +2Context CompressionHierarchical Reinforcement Learning

  20. Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Sparse-Reward Search in Commutative Algebra

    Jun 22, 2026Giorgi Butbaia, Paul Orland, Coco Huang +7Hierarchical Reinforcement LearningSparse Rewards

  21. Imagine to Ensure Safety in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 21, 2026Gregory Gorbov, Artem Latyshev, Aleksandr I. PanovHierarchical Reinforcement LearningSafety Constraints

  22. Select-to-Act: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning via Adaptive Language Guidance

    Jun 21, 2026Hanping Zhang, Adam Koziak, Yuhong GuoHierarchical Reinforcement LearningEnglish

  23. Hierarchical Advantage Weighting for Online RL Fine-Tuning of VLAs from Sparse Episode Outcomes

    Jun 15, 2026Tongyan Fang, Siyuan Huang, Naiyu Fang +6Hierarchical Reinforcement LearningReinforcement Fine-Tuning

  24. Affordance-Based Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Quadruped Pedipulation

    Jun 5, 2026Tuba Girgin, Jose Castelblanco, Gabriel Rodriguez +2Hierarchical Reinforcement LearningAffordances

  25. Enhancing Human-Likeness in Reinforcement Learning Agents via Hierarchical Macro Action Quantization

    May 29, 2026M. Shaheer Luqman, Usman Nizamani, Fawad Javed Fateh +4Hierarchical Reinforcement LearningDeep Reinforcement Learning

  26. Deconstructing Spatial Complexity: Hierarchical Decomposition for LLM Spatial Reasoning

    May 27, 2026Yi Wang, Haojie Lu, Zhaofan Zhang +2Spatial ReasoningLarge Language Model Planning

  27. 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

  28. Exploiting Local Dynamics Regularity for Reusable Skills in Offline Hierarchical RL

    May 25, 2026Sarthak Dayal, Abhinav Peri, Carl Qi +4Hierarchical Reinforcement LearningReusable Skills

  29. Partner-Aware Hierarchical Skill Discovery for Robust Human-AI Collaboration

    May 23, 2026Adnan Ahmad, Bahareh Nakisa, Mohammad Naim RastgooHuman-Ai CollaborationUnsupervised Skill Discovery

  30. Adaptive Human-AI Coordination via Hierarchical Action Disentanglement

    May 23, 2026Adnan Ahmad, Bahareh Nakisa, Mohammad Naim RastgooHuman-Ai CollaborationHierarchical Reinforcement Learning

  31. Learning Multi-Timescale Abstractions for Hierarchical Combinatorial Planning

    May 16, 2026Vivienne Huiling Wang, Tinghuai Wang, Joni PajarinenHierarchical Reinforcement LearningClassical Planning

  32. Sketch Then Paint: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Diffusion Multi-Modal Large Language Models

    May 16, 2026Siqi Luo, Jianghan Shen, Yi Xin +9Hierarchical Reinforcement LearningGroup Relative Policy Optimization

  33. Learning Dynamic Pick-and-Place for a Legged Manipulator

    May 15, 2026Moonkyu Jung, Jiseong Lee, Zhengmao He +8Task-Centric Hybrid Whole-Body ControllerRobotic Arms

  34. Dual Hierarchical Dialogue Policy Learning for Legal Inquisitive Conversational Agents

    May 13, 2026Xubo Lin, Zezhi Deng, Shihao Wang +2Conversational Artificial IntelligenceAbstract Argumentation

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

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

  36. Delay-Empowered Causal Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

    May 12, 2026Chenran Zhao, Dianxi Shi, Haotian Wang +4Hierarchical Reinforcement LearningStochastic Delays

  37. Towards Autonomous Railway Operations: A Semi-Hierarchical Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach to the Vehicle Rescheduling Problem

    May 11, 2026Alberto Castagna, Stefan Zahlner, Adrian Egli +4Railway EnvironmentsHierarchical Reinforcement Learning

  38. Two-Stage Learned Decomposition for Scalable Routing on Multigraphs

    May 6, 2026Filip Rydin, Morteza Haghir Chehreghani, Balázs KulcsárVehicle Routing ProblemFactor Graphs

  39. Quantum Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning via Variational Quantum Circuits

    May 5, 2026Yu-Ting Lee, Samuel Yen-Chi Chen, Fu-Chieh ChangVariational Quantum CircuitsHierarchical Reinforcement Learning

  40. MARS-DA: A Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Framework for Risk-Aware Multi-Agent Bidding in Power Grids

    May 4, 2026Jiayi Chen, Xuan Zhang, Guiling WangElectricity MarketsPower Systems

  41. Experience Constrained Hierarchical Federated Reinforcement Learning for Large-scale UAV Teams in Hazardous Environments

    May 4, 2026Qinwei Huang, Rui Zuo, Simon Khan +1Federated Reinforcement LearningHierarchical Reinforcement Learning

  42. Moira: Language-driven Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Pair Trading

    May 3, 2026Polydoros Giannouris, Yuechen Jiang, Lingfei Qian +5Hierarchical Reinforcement LearningSequential Decision Making

  43. Lyapunov-Guided Self-Alignment: Test-Time Adaptation for Offline Safe Reinforcement Learning

    Apr 29, 2026Seungyub Han, Hyungjin Kim, Jungwoo LeeOffline Reinforcement LearningHierarchical Reinforcement Learning

  44. Hierarchical Behaviour Spaces

    Apr 27, 2026Michael Tryfan Matthews, Anssi Kanervisto, Jakob Foerster +3Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

  45. Scalable Production Scheduling: Linear Complexity via Unified Homogeneous Graphs

    Apr 26, 2026Jonathan Hoss, Moritz Link, Noah KlarmannOptimal SchedulingHierarchical Reinforcement Learning

  46. Unleashing the Agility of Wheeled-Legged Robots for High-Dynamic Reflexive Obstacle Evasion

    Apr 26, 2026Yongen Zhao, Zihao Xu, Wenzhi Lu +2Legged RobotsObstacle Avoidance

  47. A Probabilistic Framework for Hierarchical Goal Recognition

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

  48. ALAS: Adaptive Long-Horizon Action Synthesis via Async-pathway Stream Disentanglement

    Apr 22, 2026Yutong Shen, Hangxu Liu, Lei Zhang +4Hierarchical Reinforcement LearningMotor Skills

  49. Hierarchical Active Inference using Successor Representations

    Apr 17, 2026Prashant Rangarajan, Rajesh P. N. RaoHierarchical Reinforcement LearningClassical Planning

  50. Where to Touch, How to Contact: A Hierarchical RL-MPC Framework for Geometry-Aware Sim-to-Real Manipulation

    Jan 16, 2026Zhixian Xie, Yu Xiang, Michael Posa +1Generalizable Robotic ManipulationsContact-Rich Manipulation

  51. Hierarchical Message-Passing Policies for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 31, 2025Tommaso Marzi, Cesare Alippi, Andrea CiniMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningHierarchical Reinforcement Learning

  52. Hierarchical Deep Counterfactual Regret Minimization

    May 27, 2023Jiayu Chen, Xudong Wu, Zhekai Wang +1Hierarchical Reinforcement LearningImperfect-Information Games

  53. Discovering Temporal Structure: An Overview of Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

    Date pendingMartin Klissarov, Akhil Bagaria, Ziyan Luo +3Hierarchical Reinforcement LearningHierarchical