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20192026
most citedCrossQ: Batch Normalization in Deep Reinforcement Learning for Greater Sample Efficiency and Simplicity

7 citations · 7 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.LG2026

Trust Region Inverse Reinforcement Learning: Explicit Dual Ascent using Local Policy Updates

Anish Diwan, Davide Tateo, Christopher E. Mower +3

Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) is typically formulated as maximizing entropy subject to matching the distribution of expert trajectories. Classical (dual-ascent) IRL guarante…

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

FlashSAC: Fast and Stable Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for High-Dimensional Robot Control

Donghu Kim, Youngdo Lee, Minho Park +10

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a core approach for robot control when expert demonstrations are unavailable. On-policy methods such as Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) are widely…

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.LG2025

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…

cs.LG2025

Scaling CrossQ with Weight Normalization

Daniel Palenicek, Florian Vogt, Jan Peters

Reinforcement learning has achieved significant milestones, but sample efficiency remains a bottleneck for real-world applications. Recently, CrossQ has demonstrated state-of-the-a…

cs.LG2025

Scaling Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning with Batch and Weight Normalization

Daniel Palenicek, Florian Vogt, Joe Watson +1

Reinforcement learning has achieved significant milestones, but sample efficiency remains a bottleneck for real-world applications. Recently, CrossQ has demonstrated state-of-the-a…

cs.LG2024

Diminishing Return of Value Expansion Methods

Daniel Palenicek, Michael Lutter, João Carvalho +3

Model-based reinforcement learning aims to increase sample efficiency, but the accuracy of dynamics models and the resulting compounding errors are often seen as key limitations. T…

cs.LG2019★ 7 cited

CrossQ: Batch Normalization in Deep Reinforcement Learning for Greater Sample Efficiency and Simplicity

Aditya Bhatt, Daniel Palenicek, Boris Belousov +4

Sample efficiency is a crucial problem in deep reinforcement learning. Recent algorithms, such as REDQ and DroQ, found a way to improve the sample efficiency by increasing the upda…