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20192026
most citedSMARTS: Scalable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Training School for Autonomous Driving

103 citations · 217 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.AI2026

Who Improves the Robot? Toward Physical Recursive Self-Improvement

Hai Zhou, Fan Yang, Zeyi Chen +27

Robots are increasingly autonomous in task execution, yet their improvement remains largely human-driven. This study investigates Physical Recursive Self-Improvement (Physical RSI)…

cs.RO2026

RoboStriker: Latent-Space Strategic Games for Autonomous Humanoid Boxing

Kangning Yin, Kaige Liu, Zhe Cao +9

Achieving human-level competitive intelligence and physical agility in humanoid robots remains a profound challenge, particularly in contact-rich and highly dynamic tasks such as b…

cs.RO2026

Scaling Behavior Foundation Model for Humanoid Robots

Weishuai Zeng, Kangning Yin, Xiaojie Niu +15

Humanoid control requires natural whole-body coordination, precise real-time responses to control signals, and robust generalization across diverse environmental contexts, making i…

cs.AI2026

A Definition and Roadmap for World Models

Xinyuan Chen, Haoyu Guo, Shi Guo +10

World models -- internal simulators that learn the structure and dynamics of an environment -- have become one of the most actively debated concepts in AI. From model-based reinfor…

cs.RO2026

DyGRO-VLA: Cross-Task Scaling of Vision-Language-Action Models via Dynamic Grouped Residual Optimization

Sixu Lin, Yunpeng Qing, Litao Liu +4

Recent progress in Reinforcement Learning (RL) provides a principled approach to optimizing Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, facilitating a shift from trajectory imitation to a…

cs.AI2026

PersonaArena: Dynamic Simulation for Evaluating and Enhancing Persona-Level Role-Playing in Large Language Models

Wenlong Shi, Jianxun Lian, Mingqi Wu +5

Large language models (LLMs) increasingly serve as interactive social agents, yet their ability to maintain coherent and authentic persona-level role-playing remains limited, parti…

cs.RO2026

Scalable and General Whole-Body Control for Cross-Humanoid Locomotion

Yufei Xue, YunFeng Lin, Wentao Dong +6

Learning-based whole-body controllers have become a key driver for humanoid robots, yet most existing approaches require robot-specific training. In this paper, we study the proble…

cs.RO2026

RoboStriker: Hierarchical Decision-Making for Autonomous Humanoid Boxing

Kangning Yin, Zhe Cao, Wentao Dong +7

Achieving human-level competitive intelligence and physical agility in humanoid robots remains a major challenge, particularly in contact-rich and highly dynamic tasks such as boxi…

cs.RO2025

H-Zero: Cross-Humanoid Locomotion Pretraining Enables Few-shot Novel Embodiment Transfer

Yunfeng Lin, Minghuan Liu, Yufei Xue +4

The rapid advancement of humanoid robotics has intensified the need for robust and adaptable controllers to enable stable and efficient locomotion across diverse platforms. However…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Developing Path Planning with Behavioral Cloning and Proximal Policy Optimization for Path-Tracking and Static Obstacle Nudging

Mingyan Zhou, Biao Wang, Tian Tan +1

In autonomous driving, end-to-end methods utilizing Imitation Learning (IL) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) are becoming more and more common. However, they do not involve explicit…

cs.GT2022★ 3 cited

Efficient Policy Space Response Oracles

Ming Zhou, Jingxiao Chen, Ying Wen +4

Policy Space Response Oracle methods (PSRO) provide a general solution to learn Nash equilibrium in two-player zero-sum games but suffer from two drawbacks: (1) the computation ine…

cs.LG2022★ 1 cited

Generative Adversarial Exploration for Reinforcement Learning

Weijun Hong, Menghui Zhu, Minghuan Liu +4

Exploration is crucial for training the optimal reinforcement learning (RL) policy, where the key is to discriminate whether a state visiting is novel. Most previous work focuses o…

cs.MA2021★ 25 cited

MALib: A Parallel Framework for Population-based Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning

Ming Zhou, Ziyu Wan, Hanjing Wang +6

Population-based multi-agent reinforcement learning (PB-MARL) refers to the series of methods nested with reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms, which produces a self-generated se…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Model-based Multi-agent Policy Optimization with Adaptive Opponent-wise Rollouts

Weinan Zhang, Xihuai Wang, Jian Shen +1

This paper investigates the model-based methods in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). We specify the dynamics sample complexity and the opponent sample complexity in MARL,…

cs.MA2020★ 103 cited

SMARTS: Scalable Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Training School for Autonomous Driving

Ming Zhou, Jun Luo, Julian Villella +34

Multi-agent interaction is a fundamental aspect of autonomous driving in the real world. Despite more than a decade of research and development, the problem of how to competently i…

cs.MA2020★ 3 cited

Multi-Agent Interactions Modeling with Correlated Policies

Minghuan Liu, Ming Zhou, Weinan Zhang +4

In multi-agent systems, complex interacting behaviors arise due to the high correlations among agents. However, previous work on modeling multi-agent interactions from demonstratio…

cs.MA2019★ 80 cited

Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Order-dispatching via Order-Vehicle Distribution Matching

Ming Zhou, Jiarui Jin, Weinan Zhang +6

Improving the efficiency of dispatching orders to vehicles is a research hotspot in online ride-hailing systems. Most of the existing solutions for order-dispatching are centralize…