Trust Region Q Adjoint Matching
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arXiv:2605.27079v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Off-policy reinforcement learning of pretrained flow policies remains challenging due to the instability of optimization arising from the multi-step sampling process. Recently, Q-learning with Adjoint Matching (QAM) addressed this by recasting policy improvement as a stochastic optimal control (SOC) problem guided by a learned critic. However, QAM inherits a fundamental fragility of critic-guided improvement, since small critic errors can be exponentially amplified and often lead to performance collapse. This paper introduces Trust Regi
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- arXiv:2605.27079v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Off-policy reinforcement learning of pretrained flow policies remains challenging due to the instability of optimization arising from the multi-step sampling process.
- Recently, Q-learning with Adjoint Matching (QAM) addressed this by recasting policy improvement as a stochastic optimal control (SOC) problem guided by a learned critic.
- However, QAM inherits a fundamental fragility of critic-guided improvement, since small critic errors can be exponentially amplified and often lead to performance collapse.
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