collaborators

6 papers

cs.LG2026

On the Role of Computation in Reinforcement Learning

Raj Ghugare, Michał Bortkiewicz, Alicja Ziarko +1

How does the amount of compute available to a reinforcement learning (RL) policy affect its learning? Can policies using a fixed amount of parameters, still benefit from additional…

cs.LG2026

1000 Layer Networks for Self-Supervised RL: Scaling Depth Can Enable New Goal-Reaching Capabilities

Kevin Wang, Ishaan Javali, Michał Bortkiewicz +2

Scaling up self-supervised learning has driven breakthroughs in language and vision, yet comparable progress has remained elusive in reinforcement learning (RL). In this paper, we…

cs.LG2025

Accelerating Goal-Conditioned RL Algorithms and Research

Michał Bortkiewicz, Władysław Pałucki, Vivek Myers +4

Self-supervision has the potential to transform reinforcement learning (RL), paralleling the breakthroughs it has enabled in other areas of machine learning. While self-supervised…

cs.LG2025

Is Temporal Difference Learning the Gold Standard for Stitching in RL?

Michał Bortkiewicz, Władysław Pałucki, Mateusz Ostaszewski +1

Reinforcement learning (RL) promises to solve long-horizon tasks even when training data contains only short fragments of the behaviors. This experience stitching capability is oft…

cs.LG2025

Contrastive Representations for Temporal Reasoning

Alicja Ziarko, Michal Bortkiewicz, Michal Zawalski +2

In classical AI, perception relies on learning state-based representations, while planning, which can be thought of as temporal reasoning over action sequences, is typically achiev…

cs.LG2025

Balancing Expressivity and Robustness: Constrained Rational Activations for Reinforcement Learning

Rafał Surdej, Michał Bortkiewicz, Alex Lewandowski +2

Trainable activation functions, whose parameters are optimized alongside network weights, offer increased expressivity compared to fixed activation functions. Specifically, trainab…