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most citedZeroth-Order Actor-Critic: An Evolutionary Framework for Sequential Decision Problems

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cs.RO2026

CoSkill: Whole-Body Control via Skill Composition for Long-Horizon Human-Environment Interaction

Jeonghwan Kim, Hyeonwoo Kim, Hanbyul Joo

Achieving human-level dexterity in complex, unstructured environments requires the seamless integration of whole-body scene interaction and dexterous object manipulation skills. Wh…

cs.LG2026

Beyond Token-Local Imitation: Reward-Compatible Temporal Credit Assignment for On-Policy Distillation

Shiqi Liu, Zeyu He, Letian Tao +9

On-policy distillation (OPD) has emerged as an effective approach for large language model post-training, yet existing objectives face a trade-off between objective fidelity and op…

cs.AI2026

NoteVQA: Benchmarking VLMs on Real-Life Questions from Human Communities

Haonan Jiang, Guojian Zhan, Jiancong Xie +6

Vision-language models (VLMs) increasingly power consumer-facing AI search, yet evaluating them on the diversity of everyday visual questions remains challenging. Existing benchmar…

cs.LG2026

D-MOPD: Dynamic Domain ScheDuling for Efficient Multi-Teacher Distillation

Zechen Sun, Zhiwei Zhang, Fei Zhao +7

Multi-teacher on-policy distillation (MOPD) distills several domain-expert teachers into a single student by minimizing per-domain reverse-KL divergence on the student's own rollou…

cs.RO2026

Diagnosing Compositional Generalization in Sequential Robot Tasks

Yixiao Wang, Cheng-En Wu, Lingfeng Sun +5

Sequential robot manipulation requires policies to execute novel combinations of familiar instruction components. However, collecting demonstrations for all possible instruction tu…

cs.RO2026

Factor-Aware Mixture-of-Experts with Pretrained Encoder for Combinatorial Generalization

Feihong Zhang, Guojian Zhan, Zeyu He +8

The integration of pretrained encoders with diffusion policies has become a dominant paradigm for visual robotic manipulation. However, it still struggles to generalize across comp…

cs.LG2026

Mean Flow Policy with Instantaneous Velocity Constraint for One-step Action Generation

Guojian Zhan, Letian Tao, Pengcheng Wang +6

Learning expressive and efficient policy functions is a promising direction in reinforcement learning (RL). While flow-based policies have recently proven effective in modeling com…

cs.CL2026

STAPO: Stabilizing Reinforcement Learning for LLMs by Silencing Rare Spurious Tokens

Shiqi Liu, Zeyu He, Guojian Zhan +10

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has significantly improved large language model reasoning, but existing RL fine-tuning methods rely heavily on heuristic techniques such as entropy regu…

cs.LG2026

DADP: Domain Adaptive Diffusion Policy

Pengcheng Wang, Qinghang Liu, Haotian Lin +4

Learning domain adaptive policies that can generalize to unseen transition dynamics, remains a fundamental challenge in learning-based control. Substantial progress has been made t…

cs.LG2025

Bootstrap Off-policy with World Model

Guojian Zhan, Likun Wang, Xiangteng Zhang +3

Online planning has proven effective in reinforcement learning (RL) for improving sample efficiency and final performance. However, using planning for environment interaction inevi…

cs.AI2025

Off-policy Reinforcement Learning with Model-based Exploration Augmentation

Likun Wang, Xiangteng Zhang, Yinuo Wang +5

Exploration is fundamental to reinforcement learning (RL), as it determines how effectively an agent discovers and exploits the underlying structure of its environment to achieve o…

cs.LG2025

Mind Your Entropy: From Maximum Entropy to Trajectory Entropy-Constrained RL

Guojian Zhan, Likun Wang, Pengcheng Wang +4

Maximum entropy has become a mainstream off-policy reinforcement learning (RL) framework for balancing exploitation and exploration. However, two bottlenecks still limit further pe…

cs.RO2025

Self-supervised Pretraining for Integrated Prediction and Planning of Automated Vehicles

Yangang Ren, Guojian Zhan, Chen Lv +3

Predicting the future of surrounding agents and accordingly planning a safe, goal-directed trajectory are crucial for automated vehicles. Current methods typically rely on imitatio…

cs.RO2025

Jump-Start Reinforcement Learning with Self-Evolving Priors for Extreme Monopedal Locomotion

Ziang Zheng, Guojian Zhan, Shiqi Liu +3

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown great potential in enabling quadruped robots to perform agile locomotion. However, directly training policies to simultaneously handle dual ex…

cs.RO2025

Distributional Soft Actor-Critic with Harmonic Gradient for Safe and Efficient Autonomous Driving in Multi-lane Scenarios

Feihong Zhang, Guojian Zhan, Bin Shuai +3

Reinforcement learning (RL), known for its self-evolution capability, offers a promising approach to training high-level autonomous driving systems. However, handling constraints r…

cs.LG2025

Enhanced DACER Algorithm with High Diffusion Efficiency

Yinuo Wang, Likun Wang, Mining Tan +11

Due to their expressive capacity, diffusion models have shown great promise in offline RL and imitation learning. Diffusion Actor-Critic with Entropy Regulator (DACER) extended thi…

cs.RO2025

Transferable Latent-to-Latent Locomotion Policy for Efficient and Versatile Motion Control of Diverse Legged Robots

Ziang Zheng, Guojian Zhan, Bin Shuai +4

Reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated remarkable capability in acquiring robot skills, but learning each new skill still requires substantial data collection for training. T…

cs.LG2025

Predictive Lagrangian Optimization for Constrained Reinforcement Learning

Tianqi Zhang, Puzhen Yuan, Guojian Zhan +6

Constrained optimization is popularly seen in reinforcement learning for addressing complex control tasks. From the perspective of dynamic system, iteratively solving a constrained…

eess.SY2024

An Explicit Discrete-Time Dynamic Vehicle Model with Assured Numerical Stability

Guojian Zhan, Qiang Ge, Haoyu Gao +3

Numerical stability is of great significance for discrete-time dynamic vehicle model. Among the unstable factors, low-speed singularity stands out as one of the most challenging is…

cs.LG2024

Rocket Landing Control with Random Annealing Jump Start Reinforcement Learning

Yuxuan Jiang, Yujie Yang, Zhiqian Lan +6

Rocket recycling is a crucial pursuit in aerospace technology, aimed at reducing costs and environmental impact in space exploration. The primary focus centers on rocket landing co…

eess.SY2024★ 1 cited

Canonical Form of Datatic Description in Control Systems

Guojian Zhan, Ziang Zheng, Shengbo Eben Li

The design of feedback controllers is undergoing a paradigm shift from modelic (i.e., model-driven) control to datatic (i.e., data-driven) control. Canonical form of state space mo…

cs.LG2023

Bridging the Gap between Newton-Raphson Method and Regularized Policy Iteration

Zeyang Li, Chuxiong Hu, Yunan Wang +4

Regularization is a cornerstone of modern reinforcement learning. Regularized policy iteration (RPI) provides a fundamental scheme for solving regularized Markov decision processes…

math.NA2022

Quantifying the Individual Differences of Driver' Risk Perception with Just Four Interpretable Parameters

Chen Chen, Zhiqian Lan, Guojian Zhan +3

There will be a long time when automated vehicles are mixed with human-driven vehicles. Understanding how drivers assess driving risks and modelling their individual differences ar…

cs.RO2022

Improve Generalization of Driving Policy at Signalized Intersections with Adversarial Learning

Yangang Ren, Guojian Zhan, Liye Tang +3

Intersections are quite challenging among various driving scenes wherein the interaction of signal lights and distinct traffic actors poses great difficulty to learn a wise and rob…