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5 papers

cs.LG2026

FlashSAC: Fast and Stable Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning for High-Dimensional Robot Control

Donghu Kim, Youngdo Lee, Minho Park +10

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a core approach for robot control when expert demonstrations are unavailable. On-policy methods such as Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) are widely…

cs.LG2026

XQCfD: Accelerating Fast Actor-Critic Algorithms with Prior Data and Prior Policies

Daniel Palenicek, Florian Vogt, Joe Watson +3

For reinforcement learning in the real world online exploration is expensive A common practice in robotic reinforcement learning is to incorporate additional data to improve sample…

cs.LG2026

XQC: Well-conditioned Optimization Accelerates Deep Reinforcement Learning

Daniel Palenicek, Florian Vogt, Joe Watson +2

Sample efficiency is a central property of effective deep reinforcement learning algorithms. Recent work has improved this through added complexity, such as larger models, exotic n…

cs.LG2025

Scaling CrossQ with Weight Normalization

Daniel Palenicek, Florian Vogt, Jan Peters

Reinforcement learning has achieved significant milestones, but sample efficiency remains a bottleneck for real-world applications. Recently, CrossQ has demonstrated state-of-the-a…

cs.LG2025

Scaling Off-Policy Reinforcement Learning with Batch and Weight Normalization

Daniel Palenicek, Florian Vogt, Joe Watson +1

Reinforcement learning has achieved significant milestones, but sample efficiency remains a bottleneck for real-world applications. Recently, CrossQ has demonstrated state-of-the-a…