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5 papers

cs.RO2026

LEACL: LLM-Enhanced Automatic Curriculum Learning for Reinforcement Learning in Long-Horizon Manipulation Tasks

Faraz Heravi, James Ouyang, Zifan Xu +3

Long-horizon manipulation tasks pose significant challenges for reinforcement learning due to sparse reward signals and long horizons. Automatic curriculum learning (ACL) has been…

cs.CY2025

The Essentials of AI for Life and Society: A Full-Scale AI Literacy Course Accessible to All

Zifan Xu, Kristen Procko, Michael Munje +4

In Fall 2023, we introduced a new AI Literacy class called The Essentials of AI for Life and Society (CS 109), a one-credit, seminar course consisting mainly of guest lectures, whi…

cs.RO2025

GACL: Grounded Adaptive Curriculum Learning with Active Task and Performance Monitoring

Linji Wang, Zifan Xu, Peter Stone +1

Curriculum learning has emerged as a promising approach for training complex robotics tasks, yet current applications predominantly rely on manually designed curricula, which deman…

cs.CL2025

LaRS: Latent Reasoning Skills for Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Zifan Xu, Haozhu Wang, Dmitriy Bespalov +3

Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting is a popular in-context learning (ICL) approach for large language models (LLMs), especially when tackling complex reasoning tasks. Traditional ICL…

cs.AI2025

The Essentials of AI for Life and Society: An AI Literacy Course for the University Community

Joydeep Biswas, Don Fussell, Peter Stone +4

We describe the development of a one-credit course to promote AI literacy at The University of Texas at Austin. In response to a call for the rapid deployment of class to serve a b…