4 papers
Prompt-Driven Exploration
Sunshine Jiang, John Marangola, David Zhang +6
Exploration is essential to RL since a policy cannot improve by repeatedly sampling the behaviors it already prefers. Standard methods inject stochasticity in the action space, but…
Vector Policy Optimization: Training for Diversity Improves Test-Time Search
Ryan Bahlous-Boldi, Isha Puri, Idan Shenfeld +6
Language models must now generalize out of the box to novel environments and work inside inference-scaling search procedures, such as AlphaEvolve, that select rollouts with a varie…
Going Beyond Heuristics by Imposing Policy Improvement as a Constraint
Chi-Chang Lee, Zhang-Wei Hong, Pulkit Agrawal
In many reinforcement learning (RL) applications, augmenting the task rewards with heuristic rewards that encode human priors about how a task should be solved is crucial for achie…
Embodied Red Teaming for Auditing Robotic Foundation Models
Sathwik Karnik, Zhang-Wei Hong, Nishant Abhangi +5
Language-conditioned robot models have the potential to enable robots to perform a wide range of tasks based on natural language instructions. However, assessing their safety and e…