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Sample-Efficient Diffusion-based Reinforcement Learning with Critic Guidance

arXiv:2605.30056v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in reinforcement learning (RL) have achieved great successes by leveraging the multimodality and exploration capability of diffusion policies. Among these approaches, one representative branch focuses on the sampling-based policy optimization. This design enables…

When LLM Reward Design Fails: Diagnostic-Driven Refinement for Sparse Structured RL

arXiv:2605.28918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: For sparse, structured reinforcement-learning tasks with semantic reward-function interfaces, LLM-generated reward shaping is better framed as debugging than one-shot generation. We study PPO-trained agents using MiniGrid as core evaluation and MuJoCo as boundary stress test.…

Wasserstein Contraction of Coordinate Ascent Variational Inference

arXiv:2605.30253v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the contraction in Wasserstein distance of the coordinate ascent variational inference algorithm. This is shown to hold under a transport-information inequality at the fixed points and a functional smoothness condition. The results are…

Calibrating Generative Models to Distributional Constraints

arXiv:2510.10020v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Generative models frequently suffer miscalibration, wherein statistics of the sampling distribution, such as the fraction of generations in a given class, deviate from desired values. We frame calibration as a constrained optimization problem and seek…