3 papers
cs.RO2025
Sequence Modeling for Time-Optimal Quadrotor Trajectory Optimization with Sampling-based Robustness Analysis
Katherine Mao, Hongzhan Yu, Ruipeng Zhang +4
Time-optimal trajectories drive quadrotors to their dynamic limits, but computing such trajectories involves solving non-convex problems via iterative nonlinear optimization, makin…
cs.LG2025
When Maximum Entropy Misleads Policy Optimization
Ruipeng Zhang, Ya-Chien Chang, Sicun Gao
The Maximum Entropy Reinforcement Learning (MaxEnt RL) framework is a leading approach for achieving efficient learning and robust performance across many RL tasks. However, MaxEnt…
cs.LG2025
Improving Value Estimation Critically Enhances Vanilla Policy Gradient
Tao Wang, Ruipeng Zhang, Sicun Gao
Modern policy gradient algorithms, such as TRPO and PPO, outperform vanilla policy gradient in many RL tasks. Questioning the common belief that enforcing approximate trust regions…