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  1. RecoverFormer: End-to-End Contact-Aware Recovery for Humanoid Robots

    Apr 24, 2026Zihui LiuHumanoid Robot LocomotionHumanoid Robot Control

    Stanford University

  2. Learning Hybrid-Control Policies for High-Precision In-Contact Manipulation Under Uncertainty

    Apr 21, 2026Hunter L. Brown, Geoffrey Hollinger, Stefan LeeRobotic ControlContact-Rich Robotic Manipulation

    Collaborative Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

  3. Fuzzy Logic Theory-based Adaptive Reward Shaping for Robust Reinforcement Learning (FARS)

    Apr 17, 2026Hürkan Şahin, Van Huyen Dang, Erdi Sayar +2Reward ShapingRobotic RL

    Automatic Control Group (RAT), Paderborn University, 33098 Paderborn, Germany

  4. The Price of Paranoia: Robust Risk-Sensitive Cooperation in Non-Stationary Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

    Apr 17, 2026Deep Kumar Ganguly, Chandradithya S Jonnalagadda, Pratham Chintamani +1Cooperative Game TheoryMulti-Agent Coordination

    Technical University of Munich (TU Munich) · Brown University · Indian Institute of Technology Tirupati (IIT Tirupati)

  5. RL-STPA: Adapting System-Theoretic Hazard Analysis for Safety-Critical Reinforcement Learning

    Apr 16, 2026Steven A. Senczyszyn, Timothy C. Havens, Nathaniel Rice +3Safe RLRobust RL

    Michigan Technological University · ARiA · DEVCOM

  6. RELOAD: A Robust and Efficient Learned Query Optimizer for Database Systems

    Apr 16, 2026Seokwon Lee, Jaeyoung Sim, Sihyun Kim +3Learning to OptimizeRobust RL

    Yonsei University BDAI Lab, Seoul 03722, South Korea · Microsoft Gray Systems Lab, Redmond, USA

  7. When Can You Poison Rewards? A Tight Characterization of Reward Poisoning in Linear MDPs

    Apr 11, 2026Jose Efraim Aguilar Escamilla, Haoyang Hong, Jiawei Li +4Markov Decision ProcessesAdversarial Attacks

    Oregon State University, OR, USA · University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign, IL, USA · Princeton University, NJ, USA +1

  8. Planning for Change: Reinforcement Learning Combined with Bounded Extremum Seeking for Robotic Control under Distribution Shift

    Apr 1, 2026Shaifalee Saxena, Rafael Fierro, Alexander ScheinkerRobotic ControlReinforcement Learning

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87106, USA · Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, NM 87547, USA

  9. CycleRL: Sim-to-Real Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robust Autonomous Bicycle Control

    Mar 16, 2026Gelu Liu, Teng Wang, Zhijie Wu +3Robotic ControlRL for Robotics

    School of Electronics and Communication Engineering and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Navigation and Communication Integration, Sun Yat-sen University, Shenzhen 518107, China

  10. FAME: Force-Adaptive RL for Expanding the Manipulation Envelope of a Full-Scale Humanoid

    Mar 9, 2026Niraj Pudasaini, Yutong Zhang, Jensen Lavering +3Bimanual Robotic ManipulationHumanoid Robot Control

    Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309.

  11. Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for V2X Resource Allocation: Disentangling MARL Challenges Through Benchmarking

    Feb 18, 2026Siyuan Wang, Lei Lei, Pranav Maheshwari +2RL BenchmarksReinforcement Learning

    College of Engineering, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada · College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 315211, China

  12. Trust, Don't Trust, or Flip: Robust Preference-Based Reinforcement Learning with Multi-Expert Feedback

    Jan 26, 2026Seyed Amir Hosseini, Maryam Abdolali, Amirhosein Tavakkoli +4Preference-Based RLRobust RL

    K. N. Toosi University of Technology, Tehran, Iran · Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran · The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

  13. Sampling Strategies for Robust Universal Quadrupedal Locomotion Policies

    Oct 8, 2025David Rytz, Kim Tien Ly, Ioannis HavoutisDomain RandomizationSim-to-Real Transfer

    1Dynamic Robot Systems, Oxford Robotics Institute, University of Oxford

  14. Finite-Time Convergence of Single-Trajectory Chi-Square Robust Q-Learning With Linear Function Approximation

    Oct 2, 2025Saptarshi Mandal, Yashaswini Murthy, R. SrikantQ-LearningDistributionally Robust RL

    ECE, UIUC · ORIE, UT Austin · ECE, CSL, and the director of NCSA at UIUC

  15. 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

  16. Unsupervised Partner Design Enables Robust Ad-hoc Teamwork

    Aug 8, 2025Constantin Ruhdorfer, Matteo Bortoletto, Victor Oei +2Multi-Agent CollaborationAd Hoc Teamwork

    Collaborative Artificial Intelligence, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany.

  17. 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.

  18. Discrete Compositional Generation via General Soft Operators and Robust Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 20, 2025Marco Jiralerspong, Esther Derman, Danilo Vucetic +5Scientific DiscoveryGenerative Modeling

    1Université de Montréal · 2Mila · 5Independent +1

  19. Similarity as Reward Alignment: Robust and Versatile Preference-based Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 14, 2025Sara Rajaram, R. James Cotton, Fabian H. SinzOffline RLRobust RL

    Institute for Computer Science and Campus Institute for Data Science, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany · University Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany · International Max Planck Research School for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany +2

  20. 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

  21. Distributionally Robust Deep Q-Learning

    May 25, 2025Chung I Lu, Julian Sester, Aijia ZhangRobust Markov Decision ProcessesDeep Q-Learning

    National University of Singapore, Department of Mathematics, 21 Lower Kent Ridge Road, 119077.

  22. 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.

  23. 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

  24. 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

  25. Reward-Centered ReST-MCTS: A Robust Decision-Making Framework for Robotic Manipulation in High Uncertainty Environments

    Mar 7, 2025Xibai WangReward ShapingMonte Carlo Tree Search

    NeuroQuant Labs Limited Hong Kong SAR, China

  26. Distributionally Robust Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback

    Mar 1, 2025Debmalya Mandal, Paulius Sasnauskas, Goran RadanovicDirect Preference OptimizationLLM Fine-Tuning

    Dept. of Computer Science University of Warwick, UK · Department of Computing Science University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada · Max-Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany

  27. 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

  28. 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

  29. Lipschitz-Regularized Critics Lead to Policy Robustness Against Transition Dynamics Uncertainty

    Apr 22, 2024Xulin Chen, Ruipeng Liu, Zhenyu Gan +1Robotic RLRobust RL

    College of Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University

  30. Distributionally Robust Reinforcement Learning with Interactive Data Collection: Fundamental Hardness and Near-Optimal Algorithms

    Apr 4, 2024Miao Lu, Han Zhong, Tong Zhang +1Distributionally Robust RLRobust RL

    †Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University. · ‡Center for Data Science, Peking University. · §Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.