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AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · Apr 137/10

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Advantage-Guided Diffusion for Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

Researchers propose Advantage-Guided Diffusion (AGD-MBRL), a novel approach that improves model-based reinforcement learning by using advantage estimates to guide diffusion models during trajectory generation. The method addresses the short-horizon myopia problem in existing diffusion-based world models and demonstrates 2x performance improvements over current baselines on MuJoCo control tasks.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 276/10

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Continual Model-Based Reinforcement Learning with Hypernetworks

Researchers propose HyperCRL, a continual learning method for model-based reinforcement learning that uses task-conditional hypernetworks to efficiently learn dynamics models across sequential tasks without retraining on historical data. The approach maintains fixed-capacity networks while achieving competitive performance with methods that store growing amounts of past experience, enabling faster training cycles critical for long-horizon robot learning applications.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 116/10

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AGWM: Affordance-Grounded World Models for Environments with Compositional Prerequisites

Researchers propose AGWM (Affordance-Grounded World Models), a machine learning framework that improves how AI agents understand which actions are executable in dynamic environments by explicitly tracking prerequisite dependencies. The approach addresses a fundamental limitation in conventional world models that fail to account for how actions reshape the availability of future actions, reducing multi-step prediction errors and improving generalization.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · May 116/10

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Stabilized neural Hamilton--Jacobi--Bellman solvers: Error analysis and applications in model-based reinforcement learning

Researchers develop a hybrid neural network approach for solving Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations in continuous-time reinforcement learning, combining physics-informed neural solvers with stabilized finite-difference methods. The work provides rigorous error analysis separating residual, policy, and model-identification errors, with experimental validation across multiple control benchmarks.

AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · Mar 37/108

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Scaling Tasks, Not Samples: Mastering Humanoid Control through Multi-Task Model-Based Reinforcement Learning

Researchers propose EfficientZero-Multitask (EZ-M), a multi-task model-based reinforcement learning algorithm that scales the number of tasks rather than samples per task for robotics training. The approach achieves state-of-the-art performance on HumanoidBench with significantly higher sample efficiency by leveraging shared world models across diverse tasks.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Mar 34/104

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Sample-efficient and Scalable Exploration in Continuous-Time RL

Researchers introduce COMBRL, a new reinforcement learning algorithm designed for continuous-time systems using nonlinear ordinary differential equations. The algorithm achieves sublinear regret and better sample efficiency compared to existing methods by combining probabilistic models with uncertainty-aware exploration.