Reinforcement Learning

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  1. Learning Not to Optimize: Physics-Informed Action-Space Reshaping for Intent-Based Network Control

    Aug 2, 2026Zuyuan Zhang, Vaneet Aggarwal, Tian LanReinforcement LearningPolicy Optimization

    The George Washington University · Purdue University

  2. SERL-SQL: Selective Hindsight Distillation for Text-to-SQL Reinforcement Agentic Learning

    Aug 1, 2026Tao Liu, Tao Feng, Xiangheng Li +9Reinforcement LearningText-to-SQL

    Zhejiang University, College of Artificial Intelligence · Zhengzhou University, School of Computer Science of Artificial Intelligence · Byte Dance

  3. Abstention as an Action Can Kill Both the Reward Gradient and the KL Anchor: Collapse Law and Repair for Error-Penalized Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 31, 2026Xujun Che, Yuchen Yuan, Weida Zhao +1Reinforcement LearningKL-Regularized RL

    Department of Cybersecurity, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA · Department of Information Sciences and Technology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA · Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, USA +1

  4. LEMUR: Learning to Align with Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning from Preference Feedback

    Jul 31, 2026Manith Adikari, Bei Peng, Samuele Vinanzi +1Multi-Objective Reinforcement LearningReinforcement Learning

    Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester · Centre for Robotics & AI, University of Manchester · School of Computer Science, University of Sheffield +1

  5. Explore Beyond the Boundary Using Entropic Information

    Jul 31, 2026Bumgeun Park, Donghwan LeeReinforcement LearningRL Exploration

    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon 34051, Korea

  6. Hypergradient-based Bilevel Reinforcement Learning with Improved Sample Complexity

    Jul 30, 2026Naman Saxena, Mudit Gaur, Vaneet AggarwalReinforcement LearningBilevel Optimization

    Purdue University West Lafayette, IN 47907

  7. FinSMART: Financial Sentiment Analysis for Algorithmic Trading through Market-Aligned Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 30, 2026Giorgos Iacovides, Wuyang Zhou, Danilo MandicRL for Language ModelsReinforcement Learning

    Imperial College London · London, UK

  8. TAPO: Transition-Aware Policy Optimization for LLM Agents

    Jul 30, 2026Cong Li, Peixi Peng, Yisen Zhao +4Reinforcement LearningRL Post-Training

    School of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Peking University · Pengcheng Laboratory

  9. LoRA Scaffolded Policy Optimization (LSPO): A Sampling-Time Low-Rank Scaffold for Recovering Reinforcement-Learning Gradient on Zero-Reward Cliff Prompts

    Jul 30, 2026Ken DingReinforcement LearningRL for Language Model Reasoning

    NVIDIA

  10. SERPO: Self-Evolving Rubric Policy Optimization for Open-Ended Test-Time Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 29, 2026Jianze Wang, Kunwang Zheng, Ying Liu +5Reinforcement LearningTest-Time RL

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Alibaba Group · University of Science and Technology of China

  11. RLPF: Reinforcement Learning from Performance Feedback for Code Generation

    Jul 29, 2026Huihao Jing, Haozhe Cui, Wenbin Hu +9RL for Code GenerationReinforcement Learning

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)

  12. Collaborative Weighting with Pessimistic Critic for Mitigating Overestimation in Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 29, 2026Gong Gao, Xiao Lai, Ziqi Xie +3Reinforcement LearningActor-Critic Methods

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, 200092, Shanghai, China · Shanghai University of Engineering Science, 201620, Shanghai, China

  13. RLMM-Flow: A Flow-based Mobile Manipulation Framework with Latent-Space Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 29, 2026Shuhang Wang, Ziming Li, Hui ChengReinforcement LearningMobile Manipulation

  14. DHRCL:Training Code LLMs with Dense Hierarchical Rewards and Curriculum Learning

    Jul 29, 2026Shuhang Wang, Ziming Li, Hui ChengRL for Code GenerationReinforcement Learning

  15. Reinforcement Learning on Cost-Constrained Quadrupedal Hardware

    Jul 29, 2026Javier C. Weddington, Bence P. Ölveczky, Stephen A. BaccusDynamical SystemsReinforcement Learning

    Neurosciences Interdepartmental Program, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305 USA · Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA · Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305 USA

  16. Post-Training at the Edge of Detectability: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Fine-Tuning

    Jul 29, 2026Keegan Harris, Brian W. Lee, Ian Waudby-Smith +3Reinforcement LearningKL-Regularized RL

    University of California, Berkeley · Inria & École Normale Supérieure

  17. Early Verdicts, Better Budgets: Sequential Adaptive Rollout Allocation for Compute-Efficient RLVR

    Jul 28, 2026Pixel Nomand, Elena Voss, Marcus Hale +1Reinforcement LearningRL for Language Model Reasoning

    University of Wisconsin–Madison · University of Washington

  18. Reinformed Dreamer: An Asymmetric World Model Efficiently Trained through Latent Guidance

    Jul 28, 2026Gaspard Lambrechts, Adrien Bolland, Daniel Ebi +1Reinforcement LearningWorld Models

    1McGill University, Canada · 3Université de Liège, Belgium · 4Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

  19. Reinforcement Learning for Code Optimization

    Jul 28, 2026Pierre Chambon, Kunhao Zheng, Juliette Decugis +2RL for Code GenerationReinforcement Learning

    FAIR at Meta · Inria · Université Paris Dauphine

  20. CAST: Game Solvers as Turn-Level Teachers for LLM Agents

    Jul 28, 2026Yu Wang, Yi-Kai Zhang, Wentao Shi +8Reinforcement LearningGame-Playing Agents

    University of Science and Technology of China · 4Meituan, China · 2Nanjing University +1

  21. A Unified Algorithmic Framework for Hybrid Reinforcement Learning in Tabular MDPs with Shifted Transition Dynamics

    Jul 28, 2026Zheshun Wu, Renjie Zheng, Jinhang Zuo +2Non-Stationary RLRegret Minimization in RL

    Southern University of Science and Technology · Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · Southern University of Science and Technology Shenzhen, Guangdong, China +4

  22. Inverse RL Helps Align AI by Imitating Humans

    Jul 27, 2026Michał Wiliński, Liu Leqi, Chirag NagpalRL for Language ModelsLLM Alignment

    Carnegie Mellon University · The University of Texas at Austin · Independent Researcher

  23. ACRL: Adaptive Control of Training-Inference Discrepancy for Stable Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 27, 2026Wenwu Fan, Qihong Lin, Zhijie Xia +4RL ControlRL for Language Models

    Computing Product Line, Huawei

  24. EviBack: Search-Agent Reinforcement Learning via Evidence-Constrained Teacher Backoff

    Jul 27, 2026Xiao Ma, Zhiquan Hu, Yi Wei +5Reinforcement LearningAgentic RAG

    NEXTAI Research Institute, Chery Group

  25. 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

  26. Offline-Online Curriculum RL for Multimodal Reasoning

    Jul 26, 2026Wendi Deng, Hang Du, Guoshun Nan +11Reinforcement LearningRL for Language Model Reasoning

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, 100876, China. · BUPT Shenzhen Institute, ShenZhen, 518038, China. · Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA. +4

  27. LA-RL: Label-Aware Self-Reflection for Reinforcement Learning in Information Extraction

    Jul 26, 2026Xiao You, Tianwei Yan, Zixu Shan +2LLM Self-CorrectionRL for Language Models

    Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China · Chongqing Jiaotong University, Chongqing, China

  28. Label-free Industrial Fault Detection via Adversarial Inverse Reinforcement Learning: A System for Run-to-Failure Prognostics

    Jul 25, 2026Dhiraj Neupane, Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek, Richard Dazeley +1Reinforcement LearningIndustrial Anomaly Detection

    Deakin University · Waurn Ponds, Victoria, Australia

  29. Explainable Reinforcement Learning for assisting Air Traffic Controllers

    Jul 24, 2026Anduel Mehmeti, Gabriella Gigante, Salvatore VenticinqueReinforcement LearningIntelligent Transportation Systems

    Department of Engineering, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy · CIRA, Italy

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

    Jul 24, 2026Pietro S. Oliveto, Zhenyu Wang, Peizhou Wu +1Reinforcement LearningAutomated Heuristic Design

    Southern University of Science and Technology, 518055 Shenzhen, China