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most citedSFT Memorizes, RL Generalizes: A Comparative Study of Foundation Model Post-training

7 citations · 9 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.RO2026

Behavioral Cloning Mystery

Seohong Park, Sergey Levine

Behavioral cloning (BC), despite its simplicity, exhibits many counterintuitive phenomena in the real world. For example, the performance of BC often keeps increasing as the model…

stat.ML2026

An Efficient Algorithm for Thresholding Monte Carlo Tree Search

Shoma Nameki, Atsuyoshi Nakamura, Junpei Komiyama +1

We introduce the Thresholding Monte Carlo Tree Search problem, in which, given a tree and a threshold , a player must answer whether the root node value of $\mathc…

cs.LG2025

Decoupled Q-Chunking

Qiyang Li, Seohong Park, Sergey Levine

Temporal-difference (TD) methods learn state and action values efficiently by bootstrapping from their own future value predictions, but such a self-bootstrapping mechanism is pron…

cs.LG2025

Scalable Offline Model-Based RL with Action Chunks

Kwanyoung Park, Seohong Park, Youngwoon Lee +1

In this paper, we study whether model-based reinforcement learning (RL), in particular model-based value expansion, can provide a scalable recipe for tackling complex, long-horizon…

cs.LG2025

Leveraging Discrete Function Decomposability for Scientific Design

James C. Bowden, Sergey Levine, Jennifer Listgarten

In the era of AI-driven science and engineering, we often want to design discrete objects in silico according to user-specified properties. For example, we may wish to design a pro…

cs.LG2025

Transitive RL: Value Learning via Divide and Conquer

Seohong Park, Aditya Oberai, Pranav Atreya +1

In this work, we present Transitive Reinforcement Learning (TRL), a new value learning algorithm based on a divide-and-conquer paradigm. TRL is designed for offline goal-conditione…

cs.LG2025

Dual Goal Representations

Seohong Park, Deepinder Mann, Sergey Levine

In this work, we introduce dual goal representations for goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (GCRL). A dual goal representation characterizes a state by "the set of temporal di…

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…

cs.LG2025

Intention-Conditioned Flow Occupancy Models

Chongyi Zheng, Seohong Park, Sergey Levine +1

Large-scale pre-training has fundamentally changed how machine learning research is done today: large foundation models are trained once, and then can be used by anyone in the comm…

cs.LG2025

Horizon Reduction Makes RL Scalable

Seohong Park, Kevin Frans, Deepinder Mann +3

In this work, we study the scalability of offline reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. In principle, a truly scalable offline RL algorithm should be able to solve any given prob…

cs.LG2025

Diffusion Guidance Is a Controllable Policy Improvement Operator

Kevin Frans, Seohong Park, Pieter Abbeel +1

At the core of reinforcement learning is the idea of learning beyond the performance in the data. However, scaling such systems has proven notoriously tricky. In contrast, techniqu…

cs.AI2025★ 7 cited

SFT Memorizes, RL Generalizes: A Comparative Study of Foundation Model Post-training

Tianzhe Chu, Yuexiang Zhai, Jihan Yang +6

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL) are widely used post-training techniques for foundation models. However, their roles in enhancing model generalization…

cs.RO2024

GHIL-Glue: Hierarchical Control with Filtered Subgoal Images

Kyle B. Hatch, Ashwin Balakrishna, Oier Mees +8

Image and video generative models that are pre-trained on Internet-scale data can greatly increase the generalization capacity of robot learning systems. These models can function…

cs.LG2024

OGBench: Benchmarking Offline Goal-Conditioned RL

Seohong Park, Kevin Frans, Benjamin Eysenbach +1

Offline goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (GCRL) is a major problem in reinforcement learning (RL) because it provides a simple, unsupervised, and domain-agnostic way to acqu…

cs.LG2024

Prioritized Generative Replay

Renhao Wang, Kevin Frans, Pieter Abbeel +2

Sample-efficient online reinforcement learning often uses replay buffers to store experience for reuse when updating the value function. However, uniform replay is inefficient, sin…

cs.LG2024

Leveraging Skills from Unlabeled Prior Data for Efficient Online Exploration

Max Wilcoxson, Qiyang Li, Kevin Frans +1

Unsupervised pretraining has been transformative in many supervised domains. However, applying such ideas to reinforcement learning (RL) presents a unique challenge in that fine-tu…

cs.LG2024

Unsupervised-to-Online Reinforcement Learning

Junsu Kim, Seohong Park, Sergey Levine

Offline-to-online reinforcement learning (RL), a framework that trains a policy with offline RL and then further fine-tunes it with online RL, has been considered a promising recip…

cs.LG2024

Is Value Learning Really the Main Bottleneck in Offline RL?

Seohong Park, Kevin Frans, Sergey Levine +1

While imitation learning requires access to high-quality data, offline reinforcement learning (RL) should, in principle, perform similarly or better with substantially lower data q…

cs.LG2024

Unsupervised Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning via Functional Reward Encodings

Kevin Frans, Seohong Park, Pieter Abbeel +1

Can we pre-train a generalist agent from a large amount of unlabeled offline trajectories such that it can be immediately adapted to any new downstream tasks in a zero-shot manner?…

cs.LG2024

Foundation Policies with Hilbert Representations

Seohong Park, Tobias Kreiman, Sergey Levine

Unsupervised and self-supervised objectives, such as next token prediction, have enabled pre-training generalist models from large amounts of unlabeled data. In reinforcement learn…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

METRA: Scalable Unsupervised RL with Metric-Aware Abstraction

Seohong Park, Oleh Rybkin, Sergey Levine

Unsupervised pre-training strategies have proven to be highly effective in natural language processing and computer vision. Likewise, unsupervised reinforcement learning (RL) holds…