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Nitish Dashora

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arxivcs.LG2026-07-10

Learning More from Less: Reinforcement Learning from Hindsight

Iris Xu, Sunshine Jiang, John Marangola, Nitish Dashora, Richard Li, Thomas Liu, et al.

Reinforcement learning (RL) is increasingly used to post-train vision-language-action (VLA) models, but every update consumes robot rollouts that are slow and costly to collect, making sample efficiency a central concern. Manipulation tasks typically provide only sparse rewards,…

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arxivcs.LGcs.AI2026-07-09

Prompt-Driven Exploration

Sunshine Jiang, John Marangola, David Zhang, Raghuram Kowdeed, Ruiyang Luo, Nitish Dashora, et al.

Exploration is essential to RL since a policy cannot improve by repeatedly sampling the behaviors it already prefers. Standard methods inject stochasticity in the action space, but such jitter only yields rollouts close to the original. Escaping a weak policy often requires globa…

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