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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

Adversarial Imitation Learning with General Function Approximation: Theoretical Analysis and Practical Algorithms

Tian Xu, Zhilong Zhang, Zexuan Chen +3

Adversarial imitation learning (AIL), a prominent approach in imitation learning, has achieved significant practical success powered by neural network approximation. However, exist…

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.RO2025

Skypilot: Fine-Tuning LLM with Physical Grounding for AAV Coverage Search

Zhongkai Chen, Yihao Sun, Chao Yan +3

Autonomous aerial vehicles (AAVs) have played a pivotal role in coverage operations and search missions. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) offer promising opportuniti…

cs.LG2025

The Three Regimes of Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning

Lu Li, Tianwei Ni, Yihao Sun +1

Offline-to-online reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a practical paradigm that leverages offline datasets for pretraining and online interactions for fine-tuning. However,…

cs.CV2025

Planning with Unified Multimodal Models

Yihao Sun, Zhilong Zhang, Yang Yu +1

With the powerful reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs), many recent works have explored using them for decision-making. However,…

cs.RO2025

TeraSim: Uncovering Unknown Unsafe Events for Autonomous Vehicles through Generative Simulation

Haowei Sun, Xintao Yan, Zhijie Qiao +14

Traffic simulation is essential for autonomous vehicle (AV) development, enabling comprehensive safety evaluation across diverse driving conditions. However, traditional rule-based…

cs.LG2025

NeoRL-2: Near Real-World Benchmarks for Offline Reinforcement Learning with Extended Realistic Scenarios

Songyi Gao, Zuolin Tu, Rong-Jun Qin +3

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) aims to learn from historical data without requiring (costly) access to the environment. To facilitate offline RL research, we previously introd…

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

Provably and Practically Efficient Adversarial Imitation Learning with General Function Approximation

Tian Xu, Zhilong Zhang, Ruishuo Chen +2

As a prominent category of imitation learning methods, adversarial imitation learning (AIL) has garnered significant practical success powered by neural network approximation. Howe…

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…