7 papers
WEAVER, Better, Faster, Longer: An Effective World Model for Robotic Manipulation
Arnav Kumar Jain, Yilin Wu, Jesse Farebrother +2
The potential impacts of world models (WMs, i.e., learned simulators) on robotics are far-reaching -- policy evaluation, policy improvement, and test-time planning -- all with limi…
Learning What to Say to Your VLA: Mostly Harmless Vision Language Action Model Steering
Hyun Joe Jeong, Gokul Swamy, Andrea Bajcsy
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models provide a natural language interface to robot control, but the mapping from language to behavior is often brittle and unintuitive: semantically…
Back to Blackwell: Closing the Loop on Intransitivity in Multi-Objective Preference Fine-Tuning
Jiahao Zhang, Lujing Zhang, Keltin Grimes +3
A recurring challenge in preference fine-tuning (PFT) is handling (i.e., cyclic) preferences. Intransitive preferences often stem from either …
Scaling Offline RL via Efficient and Expressive Shortcut Models
Nicolas Espinosa-Dice, Yiyi Zhang, Yiding Chen +5
Diffusion and flow models have emerged as powerful generative approaches capable of modeling diverse and multimodal behavior. However, applying these models to offline reinforcemen…
Regressing the Relative Future: Efficient Policy Optimization for Multi-turn RLHF
Zhaolin Gao, Wenhao Zhan, Jonathan D. Chang +4
Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success at tasks like summarization that involve a single turn of interaction. However, they can still struggle with multi-tur…
Efficient Imitation under Misspecification
Nicolas Espinosa-Dice, Sanjiban Choudhury, Wen Sun +1
We consider the problem of imitation learning under misspecification: settings where the learner is fundamentally unable to replicate expert behavior everywhere. This is often true…