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7 papers

cs.LG2025

Latent Safety-Constrained Policy Approach for Safe Offline Reinforcement Learning

Prajwal Koirala, Zhanhong Jiang, Soumik Sarkar +1

In safe offline reinforcement learning (RL), the objective is to develop a policy that maximizes cumulative rewards while strictly adhering to safety constraints, utilizing only of…

cs.RO2025

Optimizing Navigation And Chemical Application in Precision Agriculture With Deep Reinforcement Learning And Conditional Action Tree

Mahsa Khosravi, Zhanhong Jiang, Joshua R Waite +6

This paper presents a novel reinforcement learning (RL)-based planning scheme for optimized robotic management of biotic stresses in precision agriculture. The framework employs a…

cs.CV2025

FUSE: First-Order and Second-Order Unified SynthEsis in Stochastic Optimization

Zhanhong Jiang, Md Zahid Hasan, Aditya Balu +3

Stochastic optimization methods have actively been playing a critical role in modern machine learning algorithms to deliver decent performance. While numerous works have proposed a…

cs.LG2025

Enhancing PPO with Trajectory-Aware Hybrid Policies

Qisai Liu, Zhanhong Jiang, Hsin-Jung Yang +3

Proximal policy optimization (PPO) is one of the most popular state-of-the-art on-policy algorithms that has become a standard baseline in modern reinforcement learning with applic…

cs.CV2025

RLS3: RL-Based Synthetic Sample Selection to Enhance Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models for Indoor Autonomous Perception

Joshua R. Waite, Md. Zahid Hasan, Qisai Liu +3

Vision-language model (VLM) fine-tuning for application-specific visual grounding based on natural language instructions has become one of the most popular approaches for learning-…

cs.CV2025

STITCH: Surface reconstrucTion using Implicit neural representations with Topology Constraints and persistent Homology

Anushrut Jignasu, Ethan Herron, Zhanhong Jiang +5

We present STITCH, a novel approach for neural implicit surface reconstruction of a sparse and irregularly spaced point cloud while enforcing topological constraints (such as havin…