Reinforcement Learning

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  1. Don't Tell the Answer, Truly Guide the Reasoning During RL Rollouts

    Oct 10, 2025Xinyi Wang, Jinyi Han, Zishang Jiang +7Reinforcement LearningRL for Language Model Reasoning

    School of Data Science, Fudan University · 2Shanghai Institute of Artificial Intelligence for Education, East China Normal University · College of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Fudan University +1

  2. The Alignment Auditor: A Bayesian Framework for Verifying and Refining LLM Objectives

    Oct 7, 2025Matthieu Bou, Nyal Patel, Arjun Jagota +2Reinforcement LearningLLM Auditing

    1Imperial College London · 2Amazon AGI

  3. Octax: Accelerated CHIP-8 Arcade Environments for Reinforcement Learning in JAX

    Oct 2, 2025Waris Radji, Thomas Michel, Hector PiteauRL BenchmarksReinforcement Learning

    Univ. Lille, Inria, CNRS, Centrale Lille, UMR 9189-CRIStAL, France · Independent Researcher

  4. Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable yet Noisy Rewards under Imperfect Verifiers

    Oct 1, 2025Xin-Qiang Cai, Wei Wang, Feng Liu +3Reinforcement LearningRL for Language Model Reasoning

    RIKEN AIP, Tokyo, Japan · The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

  5. Learning Robust Penetration Testing Policies under Partial Observability: A systematic evaluation

    Sep 24, 2025Raphael Simon, Pieter Libin, Wim MeesReinforcement LearningPartially Observable RL

    Cyber Defence Lab, CISS Department Royal Military Academy · AI Lab, Department of Computer Science Vrije Universiteit Brussel

  6. Frictional Q-Learning

    Sep 24, 2025Hyunwoo Kim, Hyo Kyung LeeReinforcement LearningQ-Learning

    Data Analysis and Healthcare System Lab, Korea University, Seoul, Korea.

  7. Tackling GNARLy Problems: Graph Neural Algorithmic Reasoning Reimagined through Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 23, 2025Alex Schutz, Victor-Alexandru Darvariu, Efimia Panagiotaki +2Graph Neural NetworksReinforcement Learning

    Oxford Robotics Institute, University of Oxford · Stateful Robotics

  8. ICR-RL: Deep Reinforcement Learning via In-Context Regression

    Sep 14, 2025David Schiff, Ofir Lindenbaum, Yonathan EfroniReinforcement LearningIn-Context Learning

    Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel · Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

  9. Reward function compression facilitates goal-dependent reinforcement learning

    Sep 8, 2025Gaia Molinaro, Anne G. E. CollinsReinforcement LearningGoal-Conditioned RL

    University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94704

  10. Learning Acrobatic Flight from Preferences

    Aug 26, 2025Colin Merk, Ismail Geles, Jiaxu Xing +3RL for RoboticsAerial Robotics

    Robotics and Perception Group, University of Zurich, Switzerland · Autonomous Learning and Predictive Intelligence Lab, University of Zurich, Switzerland

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

    Aug 22, 2025Yue Pei, Hongming Zhang, Chao Gao +7Reinforcement LearningOffline RL

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Beihang University, Beijing, China · Department of Computing Science and Amii, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada · Edmonton Research Center, Huawei Canada, Edmonton, Canada +2

  12. Distributionally Robust Markov Games with Average Reward

    Aug 5, 2025Zachary Roch, Yue WangNash EquilibriumMulti-Agent System Optimization

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA. · Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA.

  13. CUDA-L1: Improving CUDA Optimization via Contrastive Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 18, 2025Xiaoya Li, Albert Wang, Guoyin Wang +2Reinforcement LearningGPU Kernel Optimization

    DeepReinforce Team

  14. Illuminating the Three Dogmas of Reinforcement Learning under Evolutionary Light

    Jul 15, 2025Mani Hamidi, Terrence W. DeaconReinforcement LearningNovelty Search

    Department of Computer Science, University of Tübingen, Germany · Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, USA

  15. Policy Improvement with Style-Specific Demonstrations

    Jun 20, 2025Lingfeng Li, Yunlong Lu, Yongyi Wang +1Reinforcement LearningGame-Playing Agents

    School of Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

  16. Adaptive Reinforcement Learning for Unobservable Random Delays

    Jun 17, 2025John Wikman, Alexandre Proutiere, David BromanReinforcement LearningRobotic RL

    EECS and Digital Futures, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

  17. Shared Modular Recurrence in Contextual MDPs for Universal Morphology Control

    Jun 10, 2025Laurens Engwegen, Max Weltevrede, Caroline Horsch +2Robotic ControlReinforcement Learning

    Delft University of Technology Delft, The Netherlands

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

    Jun 8, 2025Yang Xu, Swetha Ganesh, Vaneet AggarwalRobust Markov Decision ProcessesReinforcement Learning

    Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA 47907

  19. Ensemble Elastic DQN: A Step Dependent Ensemble Approach for Reducing Overestimation in Deep Value-Based Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 6, 2025Adrian Ly, Richard Dazeley, Peter Vamplew +2Reinforcement LearningDeep Q-Learning

  20. MAGIK: Mapping to Analogous Goals via Imagination-enabled Knowledge Transfer

    Jun 2, 2025Ajsal Shereef Palattuparambil, Thommen George Karimpanal, Santu RanaReinforcement LearningTransfer Learning

    Applied Artificial Intelligence Initiative, Deakin University · School of IT, Deakin University

  21. Agentic Episodic Control

    Jun 2, 2025Xidong Yang, Wenhao Li, Junjie Sheng +4Agentic RLReinforcement Learning

    East China Normal University · Tongji University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University +2

  22. Normalizing Flows are Capable Models for Continuous Control

    May 29, 2025Raj Ghugare, Benjamin EysenbachNormalizing FlowsReinforcement Learning

    Department of Computer Science Princeton University

  23. Model-Free Robust Average-Reward Reinforcement Learning with Sample Complexity Analysis

    May 18, 2025Zachary Roch, George Atia, Yue WangReinforcement LearningAverage-Reward RL

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA. · Department of Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA.

  24. Adaptive Resolving Methods for Markov Decision Processes with Function Approximations

    May 17, 2025Jiashuo Jiang, Yinyu Ye, Yiming ZongMarkov Decision ProcessesReinforcement Learning

    Department of Industrial Engineering & Decision Analytics, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Department of Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University

  25. Towards More Efficient, Robust, Instance-adaptive, and Generalizable Sequential Decision making

    Apr 12, 2025Zhiyong WangMulti-Armed BanditsReinforcement Learning

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  26. A Robust Model-Based Approach for Continuous-Time Policy Evaluation with Unknown Lévy Process Dynamics

    Apr 2, 2025Qihao Ye, Xiaochuan Tian, Yuhua ZhuReinforcement LearningValue Function Estimation

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

    Mar 20, 2025Maria Makarova, Qian Liu, Dzmitry TsetserukouReinforcement LearningExperience Replay

    Intelligent Space Robotics Laboratory, Center for Digital Engineering, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), 121205 Moscow, Russia · Department of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology, China

  28. 1000 Layer Networks for Self-Supervised RL: Scaling Depth Can Enable New Goal-Reaching Capabilities

    Mar 19, 2025Kevin Wang, Ishaan Javali, Michał Bortkiewicz +2Reinforcement LearningRobotic RL

    Princeton University · Warsaw University of Technology · Warsaw University of Technology, Tooploox, IDEAS Research Institute

  29. Supervised Reward Inference

    Feb 25, 2025Will Schwarzer, Jordan Schneider, Philip S. Thomas +1Reward ModelingReinforcement Learning

    University of Massachusetts · Anthropic · Work done while at the University of Texas.

  30. Compositional Concept-Based Neuron-Level Interpretability for Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Feb 2, 2025Zeyu Jiang, Hai Huang, Xingquan ZuoReinforcement LearningConcept-Based Explanations

    School of Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China

  31. Enabling Energy-Efficient Simultaneous Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning through Spiking Neural Networks with Active Dendrites for Bio-inspired Generalist Agents

    Dec 6, 2024Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra, Avaneesh Devkota, Muhammad ShafiqueReinforcement LearningDeep Q-Learning

    eBRAIN Lab · New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi

  32. ELEMENT: Episodic and Lifelong Exploration via Maximum Entropy

    Dec 5, 2024Hongming Li, Zhao Yang, Xiaoxuan Liang +2Intrinsic Reward MethodsReinforcement Learning

    Zhejiang Lab, Huangzhou, China · Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands · Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA

  33. Reinforcement learning for Quantum Tiq-Taq-Toe

    Nov 10, 2024Catalin-Viorel Dinu, Thomas MoerlandReinforcement LearningGame-Playing Agents

    Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, Leiden University, The Netherlands

  34. RL-STaR: Theoretical Analysis of Reinforcement Learning Frameworks for Self-Taught Reasoner

    Oct 31, 2024Fu-Chieh Chang, Yu-Ting Lee, Hui-Ying Shih +2Reinforcement LearningRL for Language Model Reasoning

    MediaTek Research, Taipei, Taiwan · Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan · Department of Mathematical Sciences, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan +2

  35. Streaming Deep Reinforcement Learning Finally Works

    Oct 18, 2024Mohamed Elsayed, Elena Sorina Lupu, Gautham Vasan +1Reinforcement LearningActor-Critic Methods

    Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada · Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) · Canada CIFAR AI Chair

  36. Training on Irrelevant States Implies Data Augmentation: Generalization in Contextual MDPs

    Oct 4, 2024Max Weltevrede, Caroline Horsch, Matthijs T. J. Spaan +1Reinforcement LearningRL Exploration

    Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

  37. Deep Reinforcement Learning for Reach-Avoid-Stay Problems

    Oct 3, 2024Gabriel Chenevert, Jingqi Li, Achyuta kannan +2Robust ControlReinforcement Learning

    Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA · Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, at University of Texas, Austin, USA · Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA +1

  38. Exploiting Exogenous Structure for Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning

    Sep 22, 2024Jia Wan, Sean R. Sinclair, Devavrat Shah +1Regret Minimization in RLMarkov Decision Processes

    Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University

  39. Mitigating the Stability-Plasticity Dilemma in Adaptive Train Scheduling with Curriculum-Driven Continual DQN Expansion

    Aug 19, 2024Achref Jaziri, Etienne Künzel, Visvanathan RameshStability-Plasticity DilemmaNon-Stationary RL

    Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Goethe University · HessianAI, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

  40. Training Verifiably Robust Agents Using Set-Based Reinforcement Learning

    Aug 17, 2024Manuel Wendl, Lukas Koller, Tobias Ladner +1RL ControlReinforcement Learning

    Technical University of Munich, Germany

  41. ProSpec RL: Plan Ahead, then Execute

    Jul 31, 2024Liangliang Liu, Yi Guan, BoRan Wang +5Reinforcement LearningRisk-Sensitive RL

    1The Faculty of Computing, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China · 2The Artificial Intelligence Institute, Harbin Institute of Technology, ShenZhen, China · 3The Artificial Intelligence Institute, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China

  42. Enhancing Hardware Fault Tolerance in Machines with Reinforcement Learning Policy Gradient Algorithms

    Jul 21, 2024Sheila Schoepp, Mehran Taghian, Shotaro Miwa +3RL ControlReinforcement Learning

    Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, 8900 114 St NW, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2S4, Canada · Advanced Technology R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, 8-1-1,Tsukaguchi-honmachi, Amagasaki-shi, Hyogo, 661-8661, Japan · Information Technology R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, 5-1-1, Ofuna, Kamakura-shi, Kanagawa, 247-8501, Japan +1

  43. Thompson Sampling for Infinite-Horizon Discounted Decision Processes

    May 14, 2024Daniel Adelman, Cagla Keceli, Alba V. Olivares-NadalThompson SamplingRegret Minimization in RL

    Booth School of Business, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA · United Airlines, Chicago, IL 60605, USA · UNSW Business School, UNSW, Kensington NSW 2033, Australia

  44. TERC: A Transfer Entropy Redundancy Criterion for State Variable Selection in Reinforcement Learning

    Jan 21, 2024Charles Westphal, Stephen Hailes, Mirco MusolesiReinforcement LearningState Representation Learning

    UCL Centre for Artificial Intelligence Department of Computer Science University College London Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom · Department of Computer Science University College London Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, United Kingdom · Department of Computer Science and Engineering University of Bologna Viale Del Risorgimento 2, 40136 Bologna, Italy

  45. JaxMARL: Multi-Agent RL Environments and Algorithms in JAX

    Nov 16, 2023Alexander Rutherford, Benjamin Ellis, Matteo Gallici +18RL BenchmarksReinforcement Learning

    University of Oxford · Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · University College London +2

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

    Oct 11, 2023Zeyang Li, Chuxiong Hu, Yunan Wang +4Markov Decision ProcessesReinforcement Learning

    Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China · College of Artificial Intelligence and the School of Vehicle and Mobility, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

  47. Robust Recurrent Reinforcement Learning under Evolving Hidden Disturbances with Application to Rover Wheel Slip

    Jul 29, 2023Saki Omi, Hyo-Sang Shin, Namhoon Cho +2RL for RoboticsReinforcement Learning

    Space Robotics Research Group, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg · School of Aerospace, Transport and Manufacturing, Cranfield University, Cranfield, U.K. · Department of Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea

  48. ETHER: Aligning Emergent Communication for Hindsight Experience Replay

    Jul 28, 2023Kevin Yandoka Denamganaï, Daniel Hernandez, Ozan Vardal +2Reinforcement LearningExperience Replay

    Department of Computer Science University of York York, UK

  49. Reinforcement Learning with Temporal-Logic-Based Causal Diagrams

    Jun 23, 2023Yash Paliwal, Rajarshi Roy, Jean-Raphaël Gaglione +5Reinforcement LearningCausal RL

    Arizona State University, Arizona, USA · Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Kaiserslautern, Germany · University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA +3

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

    Apr 20, 2023Lening Li, Zhentian Qian, Jianan Xia +7RL ControlReinforcement Learning

    Ningbo University, Ningbo, China · Robotics Engineering Program, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA · Ningbo Zhenhai Silver-Ball Bearing Co., Ltd., Ningbo, China

  51. Playing 20 Question Game with Policy-Based Reinforcement Learning

    Aug 23, 2018Huang Hu, Xianchao Wu, Bingfeng Luo +4Reinforcement LearningGame-Playing Agents

    1Peking University, Beijing, China · 3Microsoft Development Co., Ltd, Tokyo, Japan · 2Microsoft Corporation, Beijing, China

  52. Safe Learning Under Irreversible Dynamics via Asking for Help

    Date pendingBenjamin Plaut, Juan Liévano-Karim, Hanlin Zhu +1Regret Minimization in RLReinforcement Learning

    Division of Computer Science University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-1776, USA

  53. AsyncFlow: An Asynchronous Streaming RL Framework for Efficient LLM Post-Training

    Date pendingZhenyu Han, Ansheng You, Haibo Wang +16RL for Language ModelsAsynchronous RL

    Huawei · Individual Researcher

  54. UBCL: A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Controllable and Diverse Player Behaviors

    Date pendingAtahan Cilan, Atay ÖzgövdeReinforcement LearningHuman Behavior Simulation

    Turkish Aerospace, Istanbul, Turkey · Department of Computer Engineering, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

  55. Partial GFlowNet: Accelerating Convergence in Large State Spaces via Strategic Partitioning

    Date pendingXuan Yu, Xu Wang, Rui Zhu +2Reinforcement LearningGenerative Flow Networks

    University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China · Suzhou Institute for Advanced Research, USTC, Suzhou, China · State Key Laboratory of Precision and Intelligent Chemistry, USTC, Hefei, China

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

    Date pendingZikang Shan, Han Zhong, Liwei Wang +1RL for Language ModelsReinforcement Learning

    Peking University · Microsoft Research Asia · Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  57. Independent Learning of Nash Equilibria in Partially Observable Markov Potential Games with Decoupled Dynamics

    Date pendingPhilip Jordan, Maryam KamgarpourNash EquilibriumReinforcement Learning

    SYCAMORE, EPFL

  58. Using Reward Uncertainty to Induce Diverse Behaviour in Reinforcement Learning

    Date pendingAnthony GX-Chen, Ankit Anand, Gheorghe Comanici +7Reinforcement LearningRL for Language Model Reasoning

    New York University · Google DeepMind