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

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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

Weak-to-Strong Generalization via Direct On-Policy Distillation

Shiyuan Feng, Huan-ang Gao, Haohan Chi +7

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is a powerful recipe for improving language-model reasoning, but it is expensive to repeat on every new strong model because t…

cs.LG2026

Provably Efficient Policy-Reward Co-Pretraining for Adversarial Imitation Learning

Tian Xu, Zexuan Chen, Zhilong Zhang +4

Adversarial imitation learning (AIL) achieves high-quality imitation compared to behavioral cloning (BC), but demands substantial online environment interaction. Recent empirical w…

cs.RO2026

Continual Quadruped Robots Coordination via Semantic Skill Discovery

Daoqing Wang, Yuchen Xiao, Weixuan Huang +5

Multi-quadruped coordination has attracted increasing attention due to its enhanced payload capacity, broader contact coverage, and improved adaptability to challenging tasks. Exis…

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.RO2026

Anticipation-VLA: Solving Long-Horizon Embodied Tasks via Anticipation-based Subgoal Generation

Zhilong Zhang, Wenyu Luo, Haonan Wang +9

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a powerful paradigm for embodied intelligence, enabling robots to perform tasks based on natural language instructions and curre…

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.LG2024

Stable Continual Reinforcement Learning via Diffusion-based Trajectory Replay

Feng Chen, Fuguang Han, Cong Guan +4

Given the inherent non-stationarity prevalent in real-world applications, continual Reinforcement Learning (RL) aims to equip the agent with the capability to address a series of s…

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.LG2024

Energy-Guided Diffusion Sampling for Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning

Xu-Hui Liu, Tian-Shuo Liu, Shengyi Jiang +4

Combining offline and online reinforcement learning (RL) techniques is indeed crucial for achieving efficient and safe learning where data acquisition is expensive. Existing method…

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…