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10 papers

stat.ML2026

Posterior Sampling Reinforcement Learning with Gaussian Processes for Continuous Control: Sublinear Regret Bounds for Unbounded State Spaces

Hamish Flynn, Joe Watson, Ingmar Posner +1

We analyze the Bayesian regret of the Gaussian process posterior sampling reinforcement learning (GP-PSRL) algorithm. Posterior sampling is a heuristic for decision-making under un…

cs.RO2026

Imitation from Heterogeneous Demonstrations using Grounded Latent-Action World Models

Tianyou Wang, Anson Lei, Joe Watson +1

Imitation learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm for learning visuomotor policies, but its generalisation and stability are limited by the scale and quality of demonstration d…

cs.LG2026

Disentangling Dynamical Systems: Causal Representation Learning Meets Local Sparse Attention

Markus W. Baumgartner, Anson Lei, Joe Watson +1

Parametric system identification methods estimate the parameters of explicitly defined physical systems from data. Yet, they remain constrained by the need to provide an explicit f…

cs.LG2026

Coherent Off-Policy Improvement of Large Behavior Models with Learned Rewards

Christian Scherer, Joe Watson, Theo Gruner +3

Distilling expert demonstration data into large generative models using behavioral cloning is a scalable approach to learning capable policies for robotic control, particularly for…

cs.LG2026

XQCfD: Accelerating Fast Actor-Critic Algorithms with Prior Data and Prior Policies

Daniel Palenicek, Florian Vogt, Joe Watson +3

For reinforcement learning in the real world online exploration is expensive A common practice in robotic reinforcement learning is to incorporate additional data to improve sample…

cs.LG2026

XQC: Well-conditioned Optimization Accelerates Deep Reinforcement Learning

Daniel Palenicek, Florian Vogt, Joe Watson +2

Sample efficiency is a central property of effective deep reinforcement learning algorithms. Recent work has improved this through added complexity, such as larger models, exotic n…