Q-Learning With World Models
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arXiv:2608.17163v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Off-policy reinforcement learning (RL) has become increasingly sample-efficient, enabling applications such as RL fine-tuning of Vision-Language-Action models into reliable, high-performing policies. World models offer a further lever for sample efficiency, as they predict state changes rather than actions alone, but their success has largely been confined to supervised policy learning. Prior model-based RL methods often optimize the policy or value function directly on imagined rollouts, which is prone to compounding bias and struggles to scal
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2608.17163v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Off-policy reinforcement learning (RL) has become increasingly sample-efficient, enabling applications such as RL fine-tuning of Vision-Language-Action models into reliable, high-performing policies.
- World models offer a further lever for sample efficiency, as they predict state changes rather than actions alone, but their success has largely been confined to supervised policy learning.
- Prior model-based RL methods often optimize the policy or value function directly on imagined rollouts, which is prone to compounding bias and struggles to scal
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