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most citedBehavior Proximal Policy Optimization

8 citations · 14 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cs.RO2026

World-Value-Action Model: Implicit Planning for Vision-Language-Action Systems

Runze Li, Hongyin Zhang, Junxi Jin +5

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising paradigm for building embodied agents that ground perception and language into action. However, most existing approa…

cs.RO2026

NFPO: Stabilized Policy Optimization of Normalizing Flow for Robotic Policy Learning

Diyuan Shi, Yiqi Tang, Zifeng Zhuang +1

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has experienced significant advancements in recent years and has been widely used in many fields. In DRL-based robotic policy learning, however, c…

cs.RO2026

MMaDA-VLA: Large Diffusion Vision-Language-Action Model with Unified Multi-Modal Instruction and Generation

Yang Liu, Pengxiang Ding, Tengyue Jiang +10

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models map visual observations and natural-language instructions to robot actions; however, hierarchical and autoregressive paradigms often incur archi…

cs.RO2025

HiF-VLA: Hindsight, Insight and Foresight through Motion Representation for Vision-Language-Action Models

Minghui Lin, Pengxiang Ding, Shu Wang +7

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have recently enabled robotic manipulation by grounding visual and linguistic cues into actions. However, most VLAs assume the Markov property,…

cs.LG2025

Boundary-to-Region Supervision for Offline Safe Reinforcement Learning

Huikang Su, Dengyun Peng, Zifeng Zhuang +4

Offline safe reinforcement learning aims to learn policies that satisfy predefined safety constraints from static datasets. Existing sequence-model-based methods condition action g…

cs.CV2025

VARD: Efficient and Dense Fine-Tuning for Diffusion Models with Value-based RL

Fengyuan Dai, Zifeng Zhuang, Yufei Huang +4

Diffusion models have emerged as powerful generative tools across various domains, yet tailoring pre-trained models to exhibit specific desirable properties remains challenging. Wh…

cs.LG2025

Closing the Gap between TD Learning and Supervised Learning with -Conditioned Maximization

Xing Lei, Zifeng Zhuang, Shentao Yang +6

Recently, supervised learning (SL) methodology has emerged as an effective approach for offline reinforcement learning (RL) due to their simplicity, stability, and efficiency. Howe…

cs.LG2025

Efficient Online RL Fine Tuning with Offline Pre-trained Policy Only

Wei Xiao, Jiacheng Liu, Zifeng Zhuang +3

Improving the performance of pre-trained policies through online reinforcement learning (RL) is a critical yet challenging topic. Existing online RL fine-tuning methods require con…

cs.RO2025

ReinboT: Amplifying Robot Visual-Language Manipulation with Reinforcement Learning

Hongyin Zhang, Zifeng Zhuang, Han Zhao +3

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown great potential in general robotic decision-making tasks via imitation learning. However, the variable quality of training data often…

cs.RO2025

TDMPBC: Self-Imitative Reinforcement Learning for Humanoid Robot Control

Zifeng Zhuang, Diyuan Shi, Runze Suo +5

Complex high-dimensional spaces with high Degree-of-Freedom and complicated action spaces, such as humanoid robots equipped with dexterous hands, pose significant challenges for re…

cs.LG2024

Q-WSL: Optimizing Goal-Conditioned RL with Weighted Supervised Learning via Dynamic Programming

Xing Lei, Xuetao Zhang, Zifeng Zhuang +1

A novel class of advanced algorithms, termed Goal-Conditioned Weighted Supervised Learning (GCWSL), has recently emerged to tackle the challenges posed by sparse rewards in goal-co…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Reinformer: Max-Return Sequence Modeling for Offline RL

Zifeng Zhuang, Dengyun Peng, Jinxin Liu +2

As a data-driven paradigm, offline reinforcement learning (RL) has been formulated as sequence modeling that conditions on the hindsight information including returns, goal or futu…

cs.LG2024

DIDI: Diffusion-Guided Diversity for Offline Behavioral Generation

Jinxin Liu, Xinghong Guo, Zifeng Zhuang +1

In this paper, we propose a novel approach called DIffusion-guided DIversity (DIDI) for offline behavioral generation. The goal of DIDI is to learn a diverse set of skills from a m…

cs.LG2024

Imitating from auxiliary imperfect demonstrations via Adversarial Density Weighted Regression

Ziqi Zhang, Zifeng Zhuang, Jingzehua Xu +4

We propose a novel one-step supervised imitation learning (IL) framework called Adversarial Density Regression (ADR). This IL framework aims to correct the policy learned on unknow…

cs.LG2024

Context-Former: Stitching via Latent Conditioned Sequence Modeling

Ziqi Zhang, Jingzehua Xu, Jinxin Liu +4

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms can learn better decision-making compared to behavior policies by stitching the suboptimal trajectories to derive more optimal ones.…

cs.LG2023

A dynamical clipping approach with task feedback for Proximal Policy Optimization

Ziqi Zhang, Jingzehua Xu, Zifeng Zhuang +4

Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) has been broadly applied to robotics learning, showcasing stable training performance. However, the fixed clipping bound setting may limit the pe…

cs.RO2023

Unlock Reliable Skill Inference for Quadruped Adaptive Behavior by Skill Graph

Hongyin Zhang, Diyuan Shi, Zifeng Zhuang +6

Developing robotic intelligent systems that can adapt quickly to unseen wild situations is one of the critical challenges in pursuing autonomous robotics. Although some impressive…

cs.LG2023

Improving Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning with Q Conditioned State Entropy Exploration

Ziqi Zhang, Xiao Xiong, Zifeng Zhuang +2

Studying how to fine-tune offline reinforcement learning (RL) pre-trained policy is profoundly significant for enhancing the sample efficiency of RL algorithms. However, directly f…

cs.LG2023

STRAPPER: Preference-based Reinforcement Learning via Self-training Augmentation and Peer Regularization

Yachen Kang, Li He, Jinxin Liu +2

Preference-based reinforcement learning (PbRL) promises to learn a complex reward function with binary human preference. However, such human-in-the-loop formulation requires consid…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Beyond OOD State Actions: Supported Cross-Domain Offline Reinforcement Learning

Jinxin Liu, Ziqi Zhang, Zhenyu Wei +4

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) aims to learn a policy using only pre-collected and fixed data. Although avoiding the time-consuming online interactions in RL, it poses challen…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

CEIL: Generalized Contextual Imitation Learning

Jinxin Liu, Li He, Yachen Kang +3

In this paper, we present \textbf{C}ont\textbf{E}xtual \textbf{I}mitation \textbf{L}earning~(CEIL), a general and broadly applicable algorithm for imitation learning (IL). Inspired…

cs.LG2023

Design from Policies: Conservative Test-Time Adaptation for Offline Policy Optimization

Jinxin Liu, Hongyin Zhang, Zifeng Zhuang +3

In this work, we decouple the iterative bi-level offline RL (value estimation and policy extraction) from the offline training phase, forming a non-iterative bi-level paradigm and…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

RotoGBML: Towards Out-of-Distribution Generalization for Gradient-Based Meta-Learning

Min Zhang, Zifeng Zhuang, Zhitao Wang +2

Gradient-based meta-learning (GBML) algorithms are able to fast adapt to new tasks by transferring the learned meta-knowledge, while assuming that all tasks come from the same dist…

cs.LG2023★ 8 cited

Behavior Proximal Policy Optimization

Zifeng Zhuang, Kun Lei, Jinxin Liu +2

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) is a challenging setting where existing off-policy actor-critic methods perform poorly due to the overestimation of out-of-distribution state-ac…