"policy gradient methods" Papers

29 papers found

$\phi$-Update: A Class of Policy Update Methods with Policy Convergence Guarantee

Wenye Li, Jiacai Liu, Ke Wei

ICLR 2025
3
citations

A Policy-Gradient Approach to Solving Imperfect-Information Games with Best-Iterate Convergence

Mingyang Liu, Gabriele Farina, Asuman Ozdaglar

ICLR 2025arXiv:2408.00751
3
citations

Ask a Strong LLM Judge when Your Reward Model is Uncertain

Zhenghao Xu, Qin Lu, Qingru Zhang et al.

NEURIPS 2025arXiv:2510.20369
3
citations

Cross-Domain Off-Policy Evaluation and Learning for Contextual Bandits

Yuta Natsubori, Masataka Ushiku, Yuta Saito

ICLR 2025

d1: Scaling Reasoning in Diffusion Large Language Models via Reinforcement Learning

Siyan Zhao, Devaansh Gupta, Qinqing Zheng et al.

NEURIPS 2025spotlightarXiv:2504.12216
87
citations

Diffusion Policy Policy Optimization

Allen Ren, Justin Lidard, Lars Ankile et al.

ICLR 2025arXiv:2409.00588
146
citations

Enhancing Diversity In Parallel Agents: A Maximum State Entropy Exploration Story

Vincenzo De Paola, Riccardo Zamboni, Mirco Mutti et al.

ICML 2025arXiv:2505.01336
3
citations

Mitigating Information Loss in Tree-Based Reinforcement Learning via Direct Optimization

Sascha Marton, Tim Grams, Florian Vogt et al.

ICLR 2025arXiv:2408.08761
4
citations

On the Convergence of Projected Policy Gradient for Any Constant Step Sizes

Jiacai Liu, Wenye Li, Dachao Lin et al.

NEURIPS 2025arXiv:2311.01104
4
citations

Policy Gradient with Kernel Quadrature

Tetsuro Morimura, Satoshi Hayakawa

ICLR 2025arXiv:2310.14768
1
citations

REINFORCE Converges to Optimal Policies with Any Learning Rate

Samuel Robertson, Thang Chu, Bo Dai et al.

NEURIPS 2025

Self-Improvement for Neural Combinatorial Optimization: Sample Without Replacement, but Improvement

Dominik Grimm, Jonathan Pirnay

ICLR 2025arXiv:2403.15180
28
citations

Accelerated Policy Gradient for s-rectangular Robust MDPs with Large State Spaces

Ziyi Chen, Heng Huang

ICML 2024

Accelerated Policy Gradient: On the Convergence Rates of the Nesterov Momentum for Reinforcement Learning

Yen-Ju Chen, Nai-Chieh Huang, Ching-pei Lee et al.

ICML 2024arXiv:2310.11897
5
citations

Dialogue for Prompting: A Policy-Gradient-Based Discrete Prompt Generation for Few-Shot Learning

Chengzhengxu Li, Xiaoming Liu, Yichen Wang et al.

AAAI 2024paperarXiv:2308.07272
7
citations

Do Transformer World Models Give Better Policy Gradients?

Michel Ma, Tianwei Ni, Clement Gehring et al.

ICML 2024arXiv:2402.05290
7
citations

GFlowNet Training by Policy Gradients

Puhua Niu, Shili Wu, Mingzhou Fan et al.

ICML 2024arXiv:2408.05885
3
citations

How to Explore with Belief: State Entropy Maximization in POMDPs

Riccardo Zamboni, Duilio Cirino, Marcello Restelli et al.

ICML 2024arXiv:2406.02295
6
citations

Learning Optimal Deterministic Policies with Stochastic Policy Gradients

Alessandro Montenegro, Marco Mussi, Alberto Maria Metelli et al.

ICML 2024spotlightarXiv:2405.02235
6
citations

Major-Minor Mean Field Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Kai Cui, Christian Fabian, Anam Tahir et al.

ICML 2024arXiv:2303.10665
5
citations

Mean Field Langevin Actor-Critic: Faster Convergence and Global Optimality beyond Lazy Learning

Kakei Yamamoto, Kazusato Oko, Zhuoran Yang et al.

ICML 2024oral

Mollification Effects of Policy Gradient Methods

Tao Wang, Sylvia Herbert, Sicun Gao

ICML 2024arXiv:2405.17832
1
citations

Non-Asymptotic Analysis for Single-Loop (Natural) Actor-Critic with Compatible Function Approximation

Yudan Wang, Yue Wang, Yi Zhou et al.

ICML 2024oralarXiv:2406.01762
10
citations

Optimistic Multi-Agent Policy Gradient

Wenshuai Zhao, Yi Zhao, Zhiyuan Li et al.

ICML 2024arXiv:2311.01953
5
citations

Optimistic Policy Gradient in Multi-Player Markov Games with a Single Controller: Convergence beyond the Minty Property

I. Anagnostides, Ioannis Panageas, Gabriele Farina et al.

AAAI 2024paperarXiv:2312.12067
3
citations

Risk-Sensitive Policy Optimization via Predictive CVaR Policy Gradient

Ju-Hyun Kim, Seungki Min

ICML 2024

SAPG: Split and Aggregate Policy Gradients

Jayesh Singla, Ananye Agarwal, Deepak Pathak

ICML 2024arXiv:2407.20230
13
citations

Stabilizing Policy Gradients for Stochastic Differential Equations via Consistency with Perturbation Process

Xiangxin Zhou, Liang Wang, Yichi Zhou

ICML 2024arXiv:2403.04154
8
citations

Towards Global Optimality for Practical Average Reward Reinforcement Learning without Mixing Time Oracles

Bhrij Patel, Wesley A. Suttle, Alec Koppel et al.

ICML 2024arXiv:2403.11925
4
citations