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most citedWHALE: Towards Generalizable and Scalable World Models for Embodied Decision-making

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cs.LG2026

Prioritized Rollouts for Efficient World Model-based Vision-Language-Action Policy Optimization

Yifei Sheng, Haoxiang Ren, Zhilong Zhang +8

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for embodied intelligence, but fine-tuning them with reinforcement learning (RL) remains constrained by the…

cs.LG2026

How Should World Models Be Evaluated for Embodied Decision-Making? A Decision-Making-Centric Position

Yang Yu, Shiyuan Zhang, Yifei Sheng +2

World models have become a central abstraction in modern AI. The term now refers to several different objects: action-conditioned environment models, latent imagination models, fut…

cs.RO2026

ReinVBC: A Model-based Reinforcement Learning Approach to Vehicle Braking Controller

Haoxin Lin, Junjie Zhou, Daheng Xu +1

Braking system, the key module to ensure the safety and steer-ability of current vehicles, relies on extensive manual calibration during production. Reducing labor and time consump…

cs.RO2026

Speedup Patch: Learning a Plug-and-Play Policy to Accelerate Embodied Manipulation

Zhichao Wu, Junyin Ye, Zhilong Zhang +6

While current embodied policies exhibit remarkable manipulation skills, their execution remains unsatisfactorily slow as they inherit the tardy pacing of human demonstrations. Exis…

cs.RO2026

Towards Practical World Model-based Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models

Zhilong Zhang, Haoxiang Ren, Yihao Sun +6

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models show strong generalization for robotic control, but finetuning them with reinforcement learning (RL) is constrained by the high cost and safety…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

WHALE: Towards Generalizable and Scalable World Models for Embodied Decision-making

Zhilong Zhang, Ruifeng Chen, Junyin Ye +8

World models play a crucial role in decision-making within embodied environments, enabling cost-free explorations that would otherwise be expensive in the real world. To facilitate…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Any-step Dynamics Model Improves Future Predictions for Online and Offline Reinforcement Learning

Haoxin Lin, Yu-Yan Xu, Yihao Sun +6

Model-based methods in reinforcement learning offer a promising approach to enhance data efficiency by facilitating policy exploration within a dynamics model. However, accurately…

cs.LG2023

Episodic Return Decomposition by Difference of Implicitly Assigned Sub-Trajectory Reward

Haoxin Lin, Hongqiu Wu, Jiaji Zhang +3

Real-world decision-making problems are usually accompanied by delayed rewards, which affects the sample efficiency of Reinforcement Learning, especially in the extremely delayed c…

cs.LG2022

Model-based Reinforcement Learning with Multi-step Plan Value Estimation

Haoxin Lin, Yihao Sun, Jiaji Zhang +1

A promising way to improve the sample efficiency of reinforcement learning is model-based methods, in which many explorations and evaluations can happen in the learned models to sa…