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  1. When LLMs Read Tables Carelessly: Measuring and Reducing Data Referencing Errors

    Jun 30, 2026Yuqing Yang, Qi Zhu, Zhen Han +5ErrorsCritic

  2. PS-PPO: Prefix-Sampling PPO for Critic-Free RLHF

    Jun 29, 2026Doo Hwan Hwang, Kee-Eung KimReinforcement Learning From Human FeedbackCritic-Free Reinforcement Learning

  3. CRAFT: Counterfactual Credit Assignment from Free Sibling Rollouts for Self-Distilled Agentic Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 28, 2026Zibin Meng, Kani ChenCritic-Free Reinforcement LearningCredit Assignment

  4. BV-Blend: Uncertainty-Weighted Historical Baselines for Stable Critic-Free RL with Verifiable Rewards

    Jun 27, 2026Yupeng Chang, Yuan Wu, Yi ChangReinforcement Learning With Verifiable RewardCritic-Free Reinforcement Learning

  5. The Inattentional Gap: Task-Conditioned Language and Vision Models Omit the Safety-Critical Signals They Can Otherwise Report

    Jun 25, 2026Kwan Soo Shin, In Seok Kang, Yunkyung Min +2Artificial Intelligence SafetyBlind Spots

  6. EVOM: Agentic Meta-Evolution of Actor-Critic Architectures for Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 24, 2026Boyun Zhang, Chao Wang, Kai WuSoft Actor-CriticSelf-Evolving Agents

  7. Learning with a Single Rollout via Monte Carlo Pass@k Critic

    Jun 24, 2026Fengdi Che, Yang Liu, Lei Yu +4Credit AssignmentLong Rollouts

  8. WaveForward: An Omnidirectional Passive Wheeled Quadruped Robot with Casters

    Jun 24, 2026Chuanlin Zhao, Qifeng Zheng, Shuhan Wang +3Legged RobotsPassive

  9. Bias-Controlled Primal-Dual Natural Actor-Critic: Optimal Rates for Constrained Multi-Objective Average-Reward RL

    Jun 23, 2026Ankur Naskar, Swetha Ganesh, Vaneet AggarwalConstrained Reinforcement LearningSoft Actor-Critic

  10. VisCritic: Visual State Comparison as Process Reward for GUI Agents

    Jun 23, 2026Jiachen QianGraphical User Interface AgentsSoft Actor-Critic

  11. CKM-Driven Communication-Aware UAV Intelligent Trajectory Optimization for Urban Inspection

    Jun 23, 2026Yang Xiaomeng, Jia Ziye, Zhu Qiuming +1Unmanned Aerial Vehicle TrajectoriesUnmanned Aerial Vehicles

  12. FlowDPG: Deterministic Policy Gradient on Flow Matching Policies for Real-World Manipulation

    Jun 21, 2026Kexin Shi, Junyao Shi, Poorvi Hebbar +5Flow-Based PolicyRobotic Manipulation Policies

  13. Steer, Don't Solve: Training Small Critic Models for Large Code Agents

    Jun 20, 2026Shubham Gandhi, Yiqing Xie, Atharva Naik +2Coding AgentsCritic

  14. Robot Critics that Sweat the Small Stuff

    Jun 19, 2026Sruthi Sudhakar, Junbang Liang, Sreehari Rammohan +3Critic-Free Reinforcement LearningRobot Policies

  15. A Test-time Actor-Critic Approach to News Images Generation

    Jun 19, 2026Damianos Galanopoulos, Vasileios MezarisImage GenerationSoft Actor-Critic

  16. Multi-Head Attention-Based Feature Extractor Integration with Soft Actor-Critic for Porosity Prediction and Process Parameter Optimization in Additive Manufacturing

    Jun 18, 2026Kianoush Aqabakee, Leonardo StellaSoft Actor-CriticAdditive Manufacturing

  17. SWAP: Symmetric Equivariant World-Model for Agile Robot Parkour

    Jun 18, 2026Kaixin Lan, Ze Wang, Hongyi Li +6Parkour LocomotionScalable Robot Learning

  18. When Does Trajectory-Level Supervision Permit Efficient Offline Reinforcement Learning?

    Jun 16, 2026Xuanfei Ren, Tengyang XieOffline Reinforcement LearningLearning-Augmented Algorithms

  19. Rethinking Groups in Critic-Free RLVR

    Jun 15, 2026Yihong Wu, Liheng Ma, Lingfeng Xiao +4Critic-Free Reinforcement LearningGroup

  20. Agile Fall Recovery for Quadrotors with Bidirectional Thrust via Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 15, 2026Anke Zhao, Yuhang Zhong, Kenghou Hoi +5Quadrotor ControlIterative Reinforcement Learning

  21. InterleaveThinker: Reinforcing Agentic Interleaved Generation

    Jun 11, 2026Dian Zheng, Harry Lee, Manyuan Zhang +4Image GenerationCritic

  22. Critic Architecture Matters: Dual vs. Unified Critics for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

    Jun 10, 2026Mehmet Turan YardımcıHumanoid Loco-ManipulationPerceptive Locomotion Policies

  23. Phi-Actor-Critic: Steering General-Sum Games to Pareto-Efficient Correlated Equilibria

    Jun 9, 2026Wongyu Lee, Francesco Lelli, Omran Ayoub +1Multi-Agent Reinforcement LearningSoft Actor-Critic

  24. A History-Aware Visually Grounded Critic for Computer Use Agents

    Jun 9, 2026Jaewoo Lee, Zaid Khan, Archiki Prasad +7Computer-Use AgentsCritic

  25. Mitigating Bias in Low-SNR Financial Reinforcement Learning via Quantum Representations

    Jun 9, 2026Zeyu Liu, Xuanzhi Feng, Sing Kwong Lai +6Soft Actor-CriticDeep Reinforcement Learning

  26. Structure-Conditioned Actor-Critic Branches for Quality-Diversity Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 7, 2026Lianrong Zuo, Peilan Xu, Yong Liu +1Soft Actor-Critic

  27. TT-DAC-PS: Twin-Target Deterministic Actor-Critic with Policy Smoothing for Optimal Trade Execution

    Jun 7, 2026Ilia Zaznov, Atta Badii, Julian Kunkel +1Soft Actor-CriticLimit Order Book

  28. DNQ: Deep Nash Q-Network for Partially Observable n-Player Games

    Jun 4, 2026Qintong Xie, Edward Koh, Xavier Cadet +1Deep Q-NetworksImperfect-Information Games

  29. Retry Policy Gradients in Continuous Action Spaces

    Jun 4, 2026Soichiro Nishimori, Paavo ParmasSoft Actor-CriticEfficient Exploration

  30. Critic-Guided Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Reasoning for Reliable Mathematical Problem Solving

    Jun 4, 2026Muhammad Talha Sharif, Abdul RehmanMathematical ReasoningMulti-Agent Reasoning

  31. Representation Learning Enables Scalable Multitask Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 4, 2026Johan Obando-Ceron, Lu Li, Scott Fujimoto +3Multi-Task Reinforcement LearningDeep Reinforcement Learning

  32. Failure Modes of Deep Multi-Agent RL in Asynchronous Pricing: Reproducible Triggers, Trace Diagnostics, and a Partial Fix

    Jun 3, 2026Shree Murthy, Rohan PandeyMulti-Agent Reinforcement LearningAlgorithmic Collusion

  33. Noisy memory encoding explains negative polarity illusions

    Jun 3, 2026Yuhan Zhang, Edward GibsonNegationSurprisal

  34. From Ticks to Flows: Dynamics of Neural Reinforcement Learning in Continuous Environments

    Jun 2, 2026Saket Tiwari, Tejas Kotwal, George KonidarisSoft Actor-CriticDeep Reinforcement Learning

  35. When Helping Hurts and How to Fix It: Multi-Agent Debate for Data Cleaning

    Jun 1, 2026Chirag Parmar, Akshat Mehta, Henglin Wu +2Multi-Agent DebateDebate

  36. Target Updates May Stabilize Linear Q-Learning: Periodic and Soft Dynamics

    May 31, 2026Donghwan LeeQ-LearningDiscrete-Time Linear Systems

  37. On the Generalization Gap in Self-Evolving Language Model Reasoning

    May 31, 2026Zhenting Qi, Susanna Maria Baby, Stefanie Anna Baby +5Self-EvolutionReasoning Benchmark

  38. Critic-R: Improving Agentic Search using Instruction-tuned Retrievers with Natural Language Introspective Feedback

    May 30, 2026Md Zarif Ul Alam, Alireza Salemi, Hamed ZamaniAgentic SearchRetrievers

  39. Weak Critics Make Strong Learners: On-Policy Critique Distillation for Scalable Oversight

    May 29, 2026Can Jin, Jiakang Li, Rui Wu +2Weak SupervisionCritic-Free Reinforcement Learning

  40. Drift Q-Learning

    May 29, 2026Anas Houssaini, Mohamad H. Danesh, Amin Abyaneh +3Flow-Based PolicyOffline Reinforcement Learning

  41. Convergence of Two-Timescale Markovian Stochastic Approximations with Applications in Reinforcement Learning

    May 29, 2026Vagul Mahadevan, Claire Chen, Shuze Daniel Liu +1Stochastic ApproximationTemporal Difference

  42. Sample-Efficient Diffusion-based Reinforcement Learning with Critic Guidance

    May 28, 2026Shutong Ding, Zejia Zhong, Zhongyi Wang +4Diffusion PoliciesReward-Guided Diffusion

  43. CRITIC-R1: Learning Structured Critics for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

    May 28, 2026Wenhan Xiao, Ziwei Zhang, Chuanyue Yu +4Retrieval-Augmented Generation SystemsMulti-Hop Question Answering Benchmarks

  44. CA-AC-MPC: CUDA-Accelerated Actor-Critic Model Predictive Control

    May 27, 2026Antoonio Buo, Vittorio Cammarota, Michele Avagnale +3Model Predictive ControlSoft Actor-Critic

  45. Explicit Critic Guidance for Aligning Diffusion Models

    May 26, 2026Zhengyang Liang, Qihang Zhang, Ceyuan YangCritic-Free Reinforcement LearningSoft Actor-Critic

  46. Debate Helps Weak Judges Reward Stronger Models

    May 26, 2026Ethan Elasky, Frank Nakasako, Naman GoyalDebateJudges

  47. Robust Koopman Control Barrier Filters for Safe Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning

    May 26, 2026Dhruv S. Kushwaha, Zoleikha A. BironControl Barrier FunctionsSoft Actor-Critic

  48. Latent Q-Barrier Shielding for Safe In-Context Reinforcement Learning

    May 24, 2026Minjae Kwon, Amir Moeini, Shangtong Zhang +1ShieldingSoft Actor-Critic

  49. Bridging the Gap: Enabling Soft Actor Critic for High Performance Legged Locomotion

    May 24, 2026Gianluca Sabatini, Chenhao Li, Marco HutterProximal Policy OptimizationSoft Actor-Critic

  50. When Does Adaptive Guidance Help? Belief-Aware Privileged Distillation for Autonomous Driving Under Partial Observability

    May 24, 2026Mehmet HaklidirAutonomous DrivingPartial Observability

  51. RL with Learnable Textual Feedback: A Bilevel Approach

    May 23, 2026Utsav Singh, Sidhaarth Sredharan, Souradip Chakraborty +1Reinforcement Learning From Human FeedbackLarge Language Model Reasoning

  52. Refined Analysis of Entropy-Regularized Actor-Critic

    May 23, 2026Safwan Labbi, Paul Mangold, Daniil Tiapkin +1Soft Actor-CriticEntropy-Regularized Equilibrium Selection

  53. Score-Based One-step MeanFlow Policy Optimization

    May 22, 2026Kyungyoon Kim, Donghyeon Ki, Hee-Jun Ahn +1Flow-Based PolicyOffline Reinforcement Learning

  54. Don't Forget the Critic: Value-Based Data Rehearsal for Multi-Cyclic Continual Reinforcement Learning

    May 21, 2026Benjamin Poole, Andrew Quinn, Li Yang +1Catastrophic ForgettingCritic

  55. ACCoRD: Actor-Critic Conflict Resolution with Deep learning for O-RAN xApps

    May 21, 2026Cezary Adamczyk, Adrian KliksOpen Radio Access NetworksOptical Networks

  56. Value-Gradient Hypothesis of RL for LLMs

    May 20, 2026Arip Asadulaev, Daniil Ognev, Karim Salta +1Large Language Model Post-TrainingCritic-Free Reinforcement Learning

  57. FedCritic: Serverless Federated Critic Learning-based Resource Allocation for Multi-Cell OFDMA in 6G

    May 20, 2026Amin Farajzadeh, Melike Erol-KantarciWireless Resource AllocationFederated Reinforcement Learning

  58. Reinforcement Learning-based Control via Y-wise Affine Neural Networks: Comparative Case Studies for Chemical Processes

    May 20, 2026Austin Braniff, Yuhe TianIterative Reinforcement LearningChemical Process Systems

  59. When Critics Disagree: Adaptive Reward Poisoning Attacks in RIS-Aided Wireless Control System

    May 19, 2026Deemah H. Tashman, Soumaya CherkaouiWireless NetworksDeep Reinforcement Learning

  60. GAE Falls Short in Imperfect-Information Self-Play Reinforcement Learning

    May 19, 2026Zhiyuan Fan, Gabriele FarinaProximal Policy OptimizationSelf-Play