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

    Jul 31, 2026Sheng Zhao, Bolin Zhao, Xiaodong Wu +1RL ControlHierarchical RL

    School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China · School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 639798, Singapore

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

    Jul 26, 2026Zahra Abdalla Elashaal, Afef Hfaiedh, Nahla Khraief +2Reinforcement LearningHierarchical RL

    Lab. of Robotics, Informatics and Complex Systems, National Engineering School of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia · Faculty of Information Technology, University of Tripoli, Tripoli, Libya · Lab. of Robotics, Informaticsand Complex Systems, National Engineering School of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunis, Tunisia +3

  3. Two-Timescale Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning for Resilient Operations

    Jul 26, 2026Young Hyun Cho, Franz Stoll, Will Wei Sun +2Non-Stationary RLHierarchical RL

    Department of Statistics, Harvard University · Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University · Mitch Daniels School of Business, Purdue University +3

  4. Compact Latent Coordination for Autonomous Vehicles at Unsignalized Intersections

    Jul 23, 2026Gil Lifshits, Igal Bilik, Gilad KatzMulti-Agent CoordinationHierarchical RL

    Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

  5. Offline RL with Hierarchical Action Chunking

    Jul 23, 2026Ahad JawaidHierarchical RLOffline RL

    The University of Texas at Dallas

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

    Jul 21, 2026Kshitij Kumar Srivastava, Kshitij JerathHierarchical RLIntrinsic Motivation

    University of Massachusetts, Lowell United States

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

    Jul 15, 2026Teng Li, Hanfei Shi, Chunjiang Zhao +1Robotic GraspingHierarchical RL

    The Intelligent Equipment Research Center, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, China. · School of Intelligence Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China. · Happy Elements Ltd., Beijing 100094, China.

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

    Jul 8, 2026Erdemt Bao, Xing Lei, Jun Chen +2Normalizing FlowsHierarchical RL

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Xi’an Jiaotong University · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

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

    Jul 7, 2026Ya Wang, Hanwei Fan, Zhenguo Liu +4Hierarchical RLReward Design for RL

    Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), China

  10. High-Precision Formation Control for Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems via Hierarchical Hybrid Physics-Informed Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 3, 2026Yanzhou Li, Guangli Chen, Xiao-Meng Li +3Multi-Robot Formation ControlMulti-Robot Systems

    Dongguan Key Laboratory of Intelligent Equipment and Smart Industry, School of Advanced Engineering, Great Bay University, Dongguan 523000, China · Chair of Applied Statistics, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany · School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China +2

  11. WaveLander: A Generalizable Hierarchical Control Framework for UAV Landing on Wave-Disturbed Platforms via Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 1, 2026Chun-Kit Li, Iok Long Sit, Ming Fung Siu +4RL ControlAerial Robotics

    Department of Mathematics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR. · Cheng Kar-Shun Robotics Institute, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR. · Division of Integrative Systems and Design, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR. +2

  12. Distributed Multi Robot Lunar Cargo Transportation via Phase Decomposed Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 30, 2026Ashutosh Mishra, Elian Neppel, Shreya Santra +4Multi-Robot SystemsSpace Robotics

    Space Robotics Lab. (SRL), Department of Aerospace Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University, Sendai 980–8579, Japan · École Centrale de Lille, France · Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia

  13. Learning Expert Strategy for Autonomous Robotic Endovascular Intervention via Decoupled Procedural Execution

    Jun 30, 2026Yanxi Chen, Tianliang Yao, Shaolong Tang +5RL for RoboticsHierarchical RL

    Department of Control Science and Engineering, College of Electronics and Information Engineering, and Shanghai Institute of Intelligent Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China · School of Mechanical Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China · Department of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR 999077, China +2

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

    Jun 29, 2026Chunhui Bai, Changhe Li, Dequan Li +2Hierarchical RLSparse-Reward RL

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China · State Key Laboratory of Digital Intelligent Technology for Unmanned Coal Mining, Anhui University of Science & Technology, Huainan 232001, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Anhui University of Science & Technology, Hefei 231131, China +1

  15. Hierarchical Policy Learning via Spectral Decomposition

    Jun 28, 2026Shuxin Cao, Liquan Wang, Walker Byrnes +3Robot Policy LearningRobot Skill Learning

    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA · Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, Georgia, USA · Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

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

    Jun 27, 2026Yuexuan Wang, Jingyuan Zhou, Kaidi YangHierarchical RLOptimal Control

    Institute of Operations Research and Analytics, National University of Singapore · Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore

  17. TempAct: Advancing Temporal Plausibility in Autoregressive Video Generation via Planner-Executor RL

    Jun 26, 2026Jing Wang, Xiangxin Zhou, Jiajun Liang +5Autoregressive DiffusionRL for Video Generation

    Shenzhen Campus of Sun Yat-Sen University · Tencent Hunyuan · Tsinghua University +2

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

    Jun 24, 2026Kamar Hibatallah Baghdadi, Kawther Guoual Belhamidi, Sara Belhadj +2Hierarchical RLNeural Network Quantization

    aNational School of Artificial Intelligence (ENSIA), Sidi Abdellah Campus, Algiers, Algeria · bCosys-Grettia, Univ Gustave Eiffel, F-77454 Marne-la-Vallee, France. · aNational School of Artificial Intelligence (ENSIA), Sidi Abdellah

  19. RMTL: Reinforced Micro-task Learning for Long-Horizon Manipulation with VLM Rewards

    Jun 24, 2026Anıl Can Ateş, Orhan Kahraman, Cihan TopalRL for RoboticsLong-Horizon Robotic Manipulation

    Istanbul Technical University

  20. Safe and Generalizable Hierarchical Multi-Agent RL via Constraint Manifold Control

    Jun 22, 2026Zihao Guo, Jianing Zhao, Ling Li +3Robotic ControlMulti-Agent Coordination

    1King’s College London · University of California, Berkeley · 3The Alan Turing Institute

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

    Jun 22, 2026Giorgi Butbaia, Paul Orland, Coco Huang +7Hierarchical RLSparse-Reward RL

    Department of Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA · Department of Mathematics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA · Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS +1

  22. Imagine to Ensure Safety in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 21, 2026Gregory Gorbov, Artem Latyshev, Aleksandr I. PanovHierarchical RLSafe RL

    Moscow Independent Research Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Moscow 141701, Russia · FRC Computer Science RAS, Moscow 119333, Russia · Cognitive AI Systems Lab, Moscow 117312, Russia

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

    Jun 21, 2026Hanping Zhang, Adam Koziak, Yuhong GuoReinforcement LearningHierarchical RL

    School of Computer Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada · Canada CIFAR AI Chair, Amii, Canada

  24. Hierarchical Control in Multi-Agent Games: LLM-based Planning and RL Execution

    Jun 18, 2026Jannik Hösch, Alessandro Sestini, Florian Fuchs +6Sequential MARLMulti-Agent Coordination

    1Electronic Arts (EA) · 2KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  25. HumanoidArena: Benchmarking Egocentric Hierarchical Whole-body Learning

    Jun 16, 2026Taowen Wang, Zikang Xie, Bin Yang +13Humanoid Robot ControlHierarchical RL

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Beijing University of Technology · Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen +2

  26. MotionPyramid: Hierarchical Motion Representation and Residual Interfaces

    Jun 15, 2026Gao Zhu, Zaishuo Xia, Yubei ChenLatent Action LearningHierarchical Representation Learning

    UC Davis

  27. HOLO-MPPI: Multi-Scenario Motion Planning via Hierarchical Policy Optimization

    Jun 15, 2026Youngjae Min, Jovin D'sa, Faizan M. Tariq +3Hierarchical RLMotion Planning

    1Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139. · 2Honda Research Institute, USA, San Jose, CA, 95134.

  28. HIPIF: Hierarchical Planning and Information Folding for Long-Horizon LLM Agent Learning

    Jun 9, 2026Juncheng Diao, Zhicong Lu, Peiguang Li +6Hierarchical RLLong-Horizon LLM Agents

    1Meituan · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

  29. Capability-Aligned Hierarchical Learning for Tool-Augmented LLMs

    Jun 8, 2026Haotong Yang, Ting Long, Yi ChangHierarchical RLLLM Agent Planning

    Jilin University

  30. Towards End to End Motion Planning and Execution for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Using Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 7, 2026Elisei Shafer, Oren GalHierarchical RLVisuomotor Policy Learning

    Department of Marine Technologies, University of Haifa, Israel