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most citedWHALE: Towards Generalizable and Scalable World Models for Embodied Decision-making

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cs.LG2026

Prioritized Rollouts for Efficient World Model-based Vision-Language-Action Policy Optimization

Yifei Sheng, Haoxiang Ren, Zhilong Zhang +8

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for embodied intelligence, but fine-tuning them with reinforcement learning (RL) remains constrained by the…

cs.LG2026

Adversarial Imitation Learning with General Function Approximation: Theoretical Analysis and Practical Algorithms

Tian Xu, Zhilong Zhang, Zexuan Chen +3

Adversarial imitation learning (AIL), a prominent approach in imitation learning, has achieved significant practical success powered by neural network approximation. However, exist…

cs.CL2026

RLVR Training of LLMs Does Not Improve Thinking Ability for General QA: Evaluation Method and a Simple Solution

Kaiyuan Li, Jing-Cheng Pang, Yang Yu

Reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) stimulates the thinking processes of large language models (LLMs), substantially enhancing their reasoning abilities on verifi…

cs.RO2026

Speedup Patch: Learning a Plug-and-Play Policy to Accelerate Embodied Manipulation

Zhichao Wu, Junyin Ye, Zhilong Zhang +6

While current embodied policies exhibit remarkable manipulation skills, their execution remains unsatisfactorily slow as they inherit the tardy pacing of human demonstrations. Exis…

cs.RO2026

Towards Practical World Model-based Reinforcement Learning for Vision-Language-Action Models

Zhilong Zhang, Haoxiang Ren, Yihao Sun +6

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models show strong generalization for robotic control, but finetuning them with reinforcement learning (RL) is constrained by the high cost and safety…

cs.CV2025

Planning with Unified Multimodal Models

Yihao Sun, Zhilong Zhang, Yang Yu +1

With the powerful reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs), many recent works have explored using them for decision-making. However,…

cs.CL2025

Controlling Large Language Model with Latent Actions

Chengxing Jia, Ziniu Li, Pengyuan Wang +4

Adapting Large Language Models (LLMs) to downstream tasks using Reinforcement Learning (RL) has proven to be an effective approach. However, LLMs do not inherently define the struc…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

WHALE: Towards Generalizable and Scalable World Models for Embodied Decision-making

Zhilong Zhang, Ruifeng Chen, Junyin Ye +8

World models play a crucial role in decision-making within embodied environments, enabling cost-free explorations that would otherwise be expensive in the real world. To facilitate…

cs.LG2024

Provably and Practically Efficient Adversarial Imitation Learning with General Function Approximation

Tian Xu, Zhilong Zhang, Ruishuo Chen +2

As a prominent category of imitation learning methods, adversarial imitation learning (AIL) has garnered significant practical success powered by neural network approximation. Howe…

cs.CL2024

BWArea Model: Learning World Model, Inverse Dynamics, and Policy for Controllable Language Generation

Chengxing Jia, Pengyuan Wang, Ziniu Li +4

Large language models (LLMs) have catalyzed a paradigm shift in natural language processing, yet their limited controllability poses a significant challenge for downstream applicat…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Any-step Dynamics Model Improves Future Predictions for Online and Offline Reinforcement Learning

Haoxin Lin, Yu-Yan Xu, Yihao Sun +6

Model-based methods in reinforcement learning offer a promising approach to enhance data efficiency by facilitating policy exploration within a dynamics model. However, accurately…

cs.LG2023

Episodic Return Decomposition by Difference of Implicitly Assigned Sub-Trajectory Reward

Haoxin Lin, Hongqiu Wu, Jiaji Zhang +3

Real-world decision-making problems are usually accompanied by delayed rewards, which affects the sample efficiency of Reinforcement Learning, especially in the extremely delayed c…