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5 papers

cs.RO2026

Support-Constrained RL Enables Real-World Policy Improvement without Real-World Experience

Raymond Yu, William Huey, Mustafa Mukadam +2

Robots trained on real world data tend to be imprecise, slow, and brittle to perturbations. Improving these policies with reinforcement learning (RL) is an appealing alternative, b…

cs.RO2026

TMRL: Diffusion Timestep-Modulated Pretraining Enables Exploration for Efficient Policy Finetuning

Matthew M. Hong, Jesse Zhang, Anusha Nagabandi +1

Fine-tuning pre-trained robot policies with reinforcement learning (RL) often inherits the bottlenecks introduced by pre-training with behavioral cloning (BC), which produces narro…

cs.RO2026

RFS: Reinforcement Learning with Residual Flow Steering for Dexterous Manipulation

Entong Su, Tyler Westenbroek, Anusha Nagabandi +1

Imitation learning has emerged as an effective approach for bootstrapping sequential decision-making in robotics, achieving strong performance even in high-dimensional dexterous ma…

cs.RO2025

Residual Off-Policy RL for Finetuning Behavior Cloning Policies

Lars Ankile, Zhenyu Jiang, Rocky Duan +3

Recent advances in behavior cloning (BC) have enabled impressive visuomotor control policies. However, these approaches are limited by the quality of human demonstrations, the manu…

cs.RO2025

Steering Your Diffusion Policy with Latent Space Reinforcement Learning

Andrew Wagenmaker, Mitsuhiko Nakamoto, Yunchu Zhang +5

Robotic control policies learned from human demonstrations have achieved impressive results in many real-world applications. However, in scenarios where initial performance is not…