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  1. CRAFT: Critic-Refined Adaptive Key-Frame Targeting for Multimodal Video Question Answering

    May 18, 2026Mahesh Bhosale, Abdul Wasi, Vishvesh Trivedi +3Video Question AnsweringKeyframe Selection

  2. Shared Backbone PPO for Multi-UAV Communication Coverage with Connection Preservation

    May 18, 2026Z. JiangMulti-Uav SystemsProximal Policy Optimization

  3. Second-Order Actor-Critic Methods for Discounted MDPs via Policy Hessian Decomposition

    May 14, 2026Sanjeev Manivannan, Shuban VSoft Actor-CriticMarkov Decision Processes

  4. Critic-Driven Voronoi-Quantization for Distilling Deep RL Policies to Explainable Models

    May 14, 2026Senne Deproost, Denis Steckelmacher, Ann NowéCritic LearningVoronoi Regions

  5. Collaborative Yet Personalized Policy Training: Single-Timescale Federated Actor-Critic

    May 14, 2026Leo Muxing Wang, Pengkun Yang, Lili SuFederated Reinforcement LearningSoft Actor-Critic

  6. Beyond Binary: Reframing GUI Critique as Continuous Semantic Alignment

    May 14, 2026Yuchen Sun, Pei Fu, Shaojie Zhang +6Graphical User InterfaceCritic Learning

  7. Achieving ε−2ε^{-2} Sample Complexity for Single-Loop Actor-Critic under Minimal Assumptions

    May 13, 2026Ishaq Hamza, Zaiwei ChenSoft Actor-CriticOptimal Policies

  8. Inline Critic Steers Image Editing

    May 12, 2026Weitai Kang, Xiaohang Zhan, Yizhou Wang +4Image EditingLarge-Scale Image Generation

  9. DORA: Dynamic Online Reinforcement Agent for Token Merging in Vision Transformers

    May 12, 2026Kaixuan He, Song Chen, Yi KangVision TransformerDeep Reinforcement Learning

  10. TOPPO: Rethinking PPO for Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning with Critic Balancing

    May 12, 2026Yuanpeng Li, Gefei Lin, Annie Qu +1Multi-Task Reinforcement LearningProximal Policy Optimization

  11. XQCfD: Accelerating Fast Actor-Critic Algorithms with Prior Data and Prior Policies

    May 11, 2026Daniel Palenicek, Florian Vogt, Joe Watson +3Soft Actor-CriticScalable Robot Learning

  12. ReCrit: Transition-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Scientific Critic Reasoning

    May 11, 2026Wanghan Xu, Yuhao Zhou, Hengyuan Zhao +8CriticScientific Discovery

  13. ACSAC: Adaptive Chunk Size Actor-Critic with Causal Transformer Q-Network

    May 10, 2026Qian Chen, Junqiao Zhao, Hongtu Zhou +4Soft Actor-CriticSparse Rewards

  14. Revisiting Mixture Policies in Entropy-Regularized Actor-Critic

    May 9, 2026Jiamin He, Samuel Neumann, Jincheng Mei +2Soft Actor-CriticReparameterization

  15. Generative Actor-Critic with Soft Bridge Policies

    May 9, 2026Ke He, Le He, Shunpu Tang +2Soft Actor-CriticGenerative

  16. Modeling Decision-Making with Will for Cooperation in Social Dilemmas

    May 9, 2026Yizhe Huang, Bin Ling, Song-Chun Zhu +1CooperationStrategic Agents

  17. The Cancellation Hypothesis in Critic-Free RL: From Outcome Rewards to Token Credits

    May 9, 2026Tianhao Cheng, Zeyu Huang, Zihan Qiu +5Critic-Free Reinforcement LearningCredit Assignment

  18. Actor-Critic Algorithm for Dynamic Expectile and CVaR

    May 8, 2026Yudong Luo, Erick DelageConditional-Value-At-RiskSoft Actor-Critic

  19. Actor-Critic with Active Importance Sampling

    May 8, 2026Majid Molaei, Gabor Paczolay, Matteo Papini +2Soft Actor-CriticAdaptive Sampling

  20. Learned Lyapunov Shielding for Adaptive Control

    May 7, 2026Giansalvo Cirrincione, Adriano FagioliniAdaptive ControllerLyapunov Function

  21. When Does Critique Improve AI-Assisted Theoretical Physics? SCALAR: Structured Critic--Actor Loop for Agentic Reasoning

    May 7, 2026Vasilis Niarchos, Constantinos Papageorgakis, Alexander G. Stapleton +1Artificial Intelligence ScientistsCritique

  22. Cross-Modal Navigation with Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    May 7, 2026Shuo Liu, Xinzichen Li, Christopher AmatoMultimodal AgentsMulti-Agent Reinforcement Learning

  23. Soft Deterministic Policy Gradient with Gaussian Smoothing

    May 7, 2026Hyunjun Na, Donghwan LeeValue FunctionsCritic-Free Reinforcement Learning

  24. AdaGamma: State-Dependent Discounting for Temporal Adaptation in Reinforcement Learning

    May 7, 2026Yaomin Wang, Jianting Pan, Ran Tian +4Soft Actor-Critic

  25. Multi-Dimensional Behavioral Evaluation of Agentic Stock Prediction Systems Using Large Language Model Judges with Closed-Loop Reinforcement Learning Feedback

    May 7, 2026Mohammad Al Ridhawi, Mahtab Haj Ali, Hussein Al OsmanAgentic EvaluationsAgentic Systems

  26. Quantum Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning via Variational Quantum Circuits

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

  27. Recurrent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Chemotherapy Control under Partial Observability

    May 4, 2026Firas Mohamed Elamine Kiram, Imane Youkana, Rachida Saouli +2Deep Reinforcement LearningSoft Actor-Critic

  28. AdamO: A Collapse-Suppressed Optimizer for Offline RL

    May 3, 2026Nan Qiao, Sheng Yue, Shuning Wang +1Offline Reinforcement LearningAdam

  29. Breaking the Computational Barrier: Provably Efficient Actor-Critic for Low-Rank MDPs

    May 2, 2026Ruiquan Huang, Donghao Li, Yingbin Liang +1Soft Actor-CriticMarkov Decision Processes

  30. VLA-ATTC: Adaptive Test-Time Compute for VLA Models with Relative Action Critic Model

    May 2, 2026Wenhao Li, Xiu Su, Yichao Cao +5Vision-Language-Action ModelsCritic-Free Reinforcement Learning

  31. Exploring Pass-Rate Reward in Reinforcement Learning for Code Generation

    May 1, 2026Xin-Ye Li, Ren-Biao Liu, Yun-Ji Zhang +3Code GenerationCritic-Free Reinforcement Learning

  32. Bayesian policy gradient and actor-critic algorithms

    Apr 30, 2026Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, Yaakov Engel, Michal ValkoPolicy GradientSoft Actor-Critic

  33. Continuous-time q-learning for mean-field control with common noise, part-II: q-learning algorithms

    Apr 30, 2026Zhenjie Ren, Xiaoli Wei, Xiang Yu +1Q-LearningSoft Actor-Critic

  34. Judge, Then Drive: A Critic-Centric Vision Language Action Framework for Autonomous Driving

    Apr 30, 2026Lijin Yang, Jianing Huang, Zhongzhan Huang +2Autonomous DrivingDriving

  35. Distributional Reinforcement Learning via the Cramér Distance

    Apr 26, 2026Vanya Aziz, Ivo Nowak, E. M. T HendrixSoft Actor-CriticValue Functions

  36. Evaluating LLM-Based Goal Extraction in Requirements Engineering: Prompting Strategies and Their Limitations

    Apr 24, 2026Anna Arnaudo, Riccardo Coppola, Maurizio Morisio +4Requirements EngineeringContext-Aware Sub-Goal Generation

  37. Measure Twice, Click Once: Co-evolving Proposer and Visual Critic via Reinforcement Learning for GUI Grounding

    Apr 23, 2026Wenkai Wang, Xiyun Li, Hongcan Guo +5Graphical User InterfaceCritic Learning

  38. Distributional Value Estimation Without Target Networks for Robust Quality-Diversity

    Apr 22, 2026Behrad Koohy, Jamie BayneSoft Actor-CriticDiversity

  39. Benefits of Low-Cost Bio-Inspiration in the Age of Overparametrization

    Apr 22, 2026Kevin Godin-Dubois, Anil Yaman, Anna V. KononovaBio-Inspired FrameworkSoft Actor-Critic

  40. Temporally Extended Mixture-of-Experts Models

    Apr 22, 2026Zeyu Shen, Peter HendersonMixture-of-Experts ModelsTraining-Free Inference Framework

  41. Low-Rank Adaptation for Critic Learning in Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning

    Apr 21, 2026Yuan Zhuang, Yuexin Bian, Sihong He +7Off-Policy EvaluationCritic Learning

  42. Scalable Neighborhood-Based Multi-Agent Actor-Critic

    Apr 20, 2026Tim Goppelsroeder, Rasmus JensenMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningCritic-Free Reinforcement Learning

  43. COSAC: Counterfactual Credit Assignment in Sequential Cooperative Teams

    Apr 20, 2026Shripad Deshmukh, Jayakumar Subramanian, Raghavendra Addanki +1Critic-Free Reinforcement LearningCredit Assignment

  44. From Passive Observer to Active Critic: Reinforcement Learning Elicits Process Reasoning for Robotic Manipulation

    Mar 16, 2026Yibin Liu, Yaxing Lyu, Daqi Gao +5Generalizable Robotic ManipulationsVideo Multimodal Large Language Models

  45. RN-D: Discretized Categorical Actors for On-Policy Reinforcement Learning

    Jan 30, 2026Yuexin Bian, Jie Feng, Tao Wang +3Soft Actor-Critic

  46. GAIA: A Data Flywheel System for Training GUI Test-Time Scaling Critic Models

    Jan 26, 2026Shaokang Wang, Pei Fu, Ruoceng Zhang +7Critic LearningGraphical User Interface

  47. Beyond Topology: A Morphological Symmetry Graph Representation for Locomotion Policy Learning

    Nov 30, 2025Sizhe Wei, Xulin Chen, Fengze Xie +3Perceptive Locomotion PoliciesTopological Data Analysis

  48. Let Language Constrain Geometry: Vision-Language Models as Semantic and Spatial Critics for 3D Generation

    Nov 18, 2025Weimin Bai, Yubo Li, Weijian Luo +43D Generative Models3D Generation

  49. Transformer-Based Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Networked Systems with Long-Range Interactions

    Nov 17, 2025Vidur Sinha, Muhammed Ustaomeroglu, Guannan QuMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningNetworked Systems

  50. Pretraining in Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning for Locomotion

    Oct 14, 2025Jiale Fan, Andrei Cramariuc, Tifanny Portela +1Perceptive Locomotion PoliciesSoft Actor-Critic

  51. KungfuBot: Physics-Based Humanoid Whole-Body Control for Learning Highly-Dynamic Skills

    Jun 15, 2025Weiji Xie, Jinrui Han, Jiakun Zheng +6Long-Tail Humanoid Whole-Body ControlMotion Imitation

  52. Efficient Q-Learning and Actor-Critic Methods for Robust Average-Reward Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 8, 2025Yang Xu, Swetha Ganesh, Vaneet AggarwalQ-LearningSoft Actor-Critic

  53. Constrained Reinforcement Learning for Safe Heat Pump Control

    Sep 29, 2024Baohe Zhang, Lilli Frison, Thomas Brox +1Constrained Reinforcement LearningSoft Actor-Critic

  54. Bridging the Gap between Newton-Raphson Method and Regularized Policy Iteration

    Oct 11, 2023Zeyang Li, Chuxiong Hu, Yunan Wang +4Entropy Regularized Reinforcement LearningPolicy Gradient

  55. Topology-Guided Modular Actor-Critic Learning for Continuous Systems under Temporal Objectives

    Apr 20, 2023Lening Li, Zhentian Qian, Jianan Xia +7Soft Actor-CriticModel-Free Reinforcement Learning

  56. Diversity-Enriched Option-Critic

    Nov 4, 2020Anand Kamat, Doina PrecupSoft Actor-CriticCritic Learning

  57. Bringing Value Models Back: Generative Critics for Value Modeling in LLM Reinforcement Learning

    Date pendingZikang Shan, Han Zhong, Liwei Wang +1Critic-Free Reinforcement LearningSoft Actor-Critic