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most citedOverestimation, Overfitting, and Plasticity in Actor-Critic: the Bitter Lesson of Reinforcement Learning

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cs.LG2026

When Does Non-Uniform Replay Matter in Reinforcement Learning?

Michal Korniak, Mikołaj Czarnecki, Yarden As +3

Modern off-policy reinforcement learning algorithms often rely on simple uniform replay sampling and it remains unclear when and why non-uniform replay improves over this strong ba…

cs.LG2026

Reward-Conditioned Reinforcement Learning

Michal Nauman, Marek Cygan, Pieter Abbeel

Single-task RL agents are typically trained under a fixed reward function, which limits their robustness to reward misspecification and their ability to adapt to changing preferenc…

cs.LG2026

What Does Flow Matching Bring To TD Learning?

Bhavya Agrawalla, Michal Nauman, Aviral Kumar

Recent work shows that flow matching can be effective for scalar Q-value function estimation in reinforcement learning (RL), but it remains unclear why or how this approach differs…

cs.LG2025

floq: Training Critics via Flow-Matching for Scaling Compute in Value-Based RL

Bhavya Agrawalla, Michal Nauman, Khush Agrawal +1

A hallmark of modern large-scale machine learning techniques is the use of training objectives that provide dense supervision to intermediate computations, such as teacher forcing…

cs.LG2025

Compute-Optimal Scaling for Value-Based Deep RL

Preston Fu, Oleh Rybkin, Zhiyuan Zhou +4

As models grow larger and training them becomes expensive, it becomes increasingly important to scale training recipes not just to larger models and more data, but to do so in a co…

cs.LG2025

Relative Entropy Pathwise Policy Optimization

Claas Voelcker, Axel Brunnbauer, Marcel Hussing +6

Score-function based methods for policy learning, such as REINFORCE and PPO, have delivered strong results in game-playing and robotics, yet their high variance often undermines tr…

cs.LG2025

Bigger, Regularized, Categorical: High-Capacity Value Functions are Efficient Multi-Task Learners

Michal Nauman, Marek Cygan, Carmelo Sferrazza +2

Recent advances in language modeling and vision stem from training large models on diverse, multi-task data. This paradigm has had limited impact in value-based reinforcement learn…

cs.LG2025

Value-Based Deep RL Scales Predictably

Oleh Rybkin, Michal Nauman, Preston Fu +4

Scaling data and compute is critical to the success of modern ML. However, scaling demands predictability: we want methods to not only perform well with more compute or data, but a…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Bigger, Regularized, Optimistic: scaling for compute and sample-efficient continuous control

Michal Nauman, Mateusz Ostaszewski, Krzysztof Jankowski +2

Sample efficiency in Reinforcement Learning (RL) has traditionally been driven by algorithmic enhancements. In this work, we demonstrate that scaling can also lead to substantial i…

cs.LG2024

A Case for Validation Buffer in Pessimistic Actor-Critic

Michal Nauman, Mateusz Ostaszewski, Marek Cygan

In this paper, we investigate the issue of error accumulation in critic networks updated via pessimistic temporal difference objectives. We show that the critic approximation error…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Overestimation, Overfitting, and Plasticity in Actor-Critic: the Bitter Lesson of Reinforcement Learning

Michal Nauman, Michał Bortkiewicz, Piotr Miłoś +3

Recent advancements in off-policy Reinforcement Learning (RL) have significantly improved sample efficiency, primarily due to the incorporation of various forms of regularization t…

cs.LG2023

On the Theory of Risk-Aware Agents: Bridging Actor-Critic and Economics

Michal Nauman, Marek Cygan

Risk-aware Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms like SAC and TD3 were shown empirically to outperform their risk-neutral counterparts in a variety of continuous-action tasks. How…

cs.LG2022

On Many-Actions Policy Gradient

Michal Nauman, Marek Cygan

We study the variance of stochastic policy gradients (SPGs) with many action samples per state. We derive a many-actions optimality condition, which determines when many-actions SP…