3 papers
cs.LG2026
The Trajectory Alignment Coefficient in Two Acts: From Reward Tuning to Reward Learning
Calarina Muslimani, Yunshu Du, Kenta Kawamoto +3
The success of reinforcement learning (RL) is fundamentally tied to having a reward function that accurately reflects the task objective. Yet, designing reward functions is notorio…
cs.LG2025
Out-of-Distribution Generalization with a SPARC: Racing 100 Unseen Vehicles with a Single Policy
Bram Grooten, Patrick MacAlpine, Kaushik Subramanian +2
Generalization to unseen environments is a significant challenge in the field of robotics and control. In this work, we focus on contextual reinforcement learning, where agents act…
cs.AI2025
Automated Reward Design for Gran Turismo
Michel Ma, Takuma Seno, Kaushik Subramanian +3
When designing reinforcement learning (RL) agents, a designer communicates the desired agent behavior through the definition of reward functions - numerical feedback given to the a…