ICRA 2026 Past Reinforcement learning

ICRA 2026 Workshop on Reinforcement Learning in the Era of Imitation Learning

ICRA 2026 Workshop RL4IL

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Accepted papers (24)

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  1. Behavior Cloning of MPC for 3-DOF Robotic Manipulators

    Theo Guegan, Wen Jie Dexter Teo · PDF
  2. Beyond Imitation: Reinforcement Learning–Based Sim–Real Co-Training for VLA Models

    Liangzhi Shi, Shuaihang Chen, Feng Gao, Yinuo Chen, Kang Chen, Tonghe Zhang, Hongzhi Zang, Weinan Zhang, Chao Yu, Yu Wang · PDF
  3. Can Agents Learn Safe Behavior From Non-Preferred Demonstrations?

    Om Vivek Mahajan, Dhiran Venula, Shrinidi Kuppurajan, Returaj Burnwal, Nirav Pravinbhai Bhatt, Balaraman Ravindran · PDF
  4. Climb with SHERPA: Heuristic-Guided Reinforcement Learning via Segmented Experience Relay

    Minji Kim, Ganghun Lee, Minsu Lee, Byoung-Tak Zhang · PDF
  5. Coherent Off-Policy Improvement of Large Behaviour Models with Learned Rewards

    Christian Scherer, Joe Watson, Daniel Palenicek, Theo Gruner, Ingmar Posner, Jan Peters · PDF
  6. Critic Architecture Matters: Dual vs. Unified Critics for Humanoid Loco-Manipulation

    Mehmet Turan YARDIMCI · PDF
  7. Failure-Aware RL: Reliable Offline-to-Online Reinforcement Learning with Self-Recovery for Real-World Manipulation

    Huanyu Li, Kun LEI, Sheng Zang, Kaizhe Hu, Yongyuan Liang, Bo An, Xiaoli Li, Huazhe Xu · PDF
  8. Graph-Based Reward Learning and Automatic Subtask Discovery for Long-Horizon Manipulation

    Andrea Protopapa, Giuseppe Averta, Francesca Pistilli, Davide Buoso · PDF
  9. Hi-CoLA: High Confidence Lower Bound Approximation Based Reinforcement Learning for Flex-Route Transit Operation Control

    Qi Kang, Haris Koutsopoulos, Hongliang Guo, Jinhua Zhao · PDF
  10. Imitation from Videos: Monocular 3D Motion Estimation for Agile Quadruped Locomotion

    Liu Zhao, Yuanhao Chen, Yidan Lu, Yunhui Liu, Peng Lu · PDF
  11. KhGRL: Kernelized human-Guided Reinforcement Learning

    Edoardo Fiorini, Abhishek Padalkar, Antonin Raffin, João Silvério · PDF
  12. Mini Diffuser: Accelerating Diffusion Policy Optimization via Two-Level Minibatching

    Yutong Hu, Pinhao Song, Kehan Wen, Renaud Detry · PDF
  13. Negative Energy as Reward: Optimizing Beyond Demonstrations in Offline Goal-Conditioned Control

    Carlos Vélez-García, Miguel Cazorla, Jorge Pomares · PDF
  14. Online Fine-Tuning of Pretrained Controllers for Autonomous Driving via Real-Time Recurrent RL

    Julian Lemmel, Felix Resch, Mónika Farsang, Ramin Hasani, Daniela Rus, Radu Grosu · PDF
  15. Online Planning with Offline Pretrained All-in-One World Model

    Kehan Wen, Yutong Hu, Yao Mu, Lei Ke · PDF
  16. ReinforceGen: Hybrid Skill Policies with Automated Data Generation and Reinforcement Learning

    Zihan Zhou, Animesh Garg, Ajay Mandlekar, Caelan Reed Garrett · PDF
  17. Robometer: Scaling General-Purpose Robotic Reward Models via Trajectory Comparisons

    Anthony Liang, Yigit Korkmaz, Jiahui Zhang, Minyoung Hwang, Abrar Anwar, Sidhant Kaushik, Aditya Shah, Alex S Huang, Luke Zettlemoyer, Dieter Fox, Yu Xiang, Anqi Li, Andreea Bobu, Abhishek Gupta, Stephen Tu, Erdem Biyik, Jesse Zhang · PDF
  18. SERNF: Sample-Efficient Real-World Dexterous Policy Fine-Tuning via Action-Chunked Critics and Normalizing Flows

    Chenyu Yang, Denis Tarasov, Davide Liconti, Hehui Zheng, Robert K. Katzschmann · PDF
  19. Simple Recipe Works: Vision-Language-Action Models are Natural Continual Learners with Reinforcement Learning

    Jiaheng Hu, Jay Shim, Chen Tang, Yoonchang Sung, Bo Liu, Peter Stone, Roberto Martín-Martín · PDF
  20. Teacher-Student Representational Alignment for Reinforcement Learning-driven Imitation Learning

    Meraj Mammadov, Pedro Zuidberg Dos Martires, Johannes A. Stork · PDF
  21. Tune to Learn: How Controller Gains Shape Robot Policy Learning

    Antonia Bronars, Younghyo Park, Pulkit Agrawal · PDF
  22. Turning the Dial: Bridging Behavior Cloning and Reinforcement Learning via Timestep Modulation

    Matthew M Hong, Jesse Zhang, Anusha Nagabandi, Abhishek Gupta · PDF
  23. Vision-Language-Action Jump-Starting for Reinforcement Learning Robotic Agents

    Angelo Moroncelli, Roberto Zanetti, Marco Maccarini, Loris Roveda · PDF
  24. When Life Gives You BC, Make Q-functions: Extracting Q-values from Behavior Cloning for On-Robot Reinforcement Learning

    Lakshita Dodeja, Ondrej Biza, Shivam Vats, Stephen Hart, Stefanie Tellex, Robin Walters, Karl Schmeckpeper, Thomas Weng · PDF