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Borong Zhang

10 accepted papers

2026

E^2DT: Efficient and Effective Decision Transformer with Experience-Aware Sampling for Robotic Manipulation

ICRA 2026poster

In reinforcement learning (RL) for robotic manipulation, the Decision Transformer (DT) has emerged as an effective framework for addressing long-horizon tasks. However, DT’s performance depends heavily on the coverage of collected experiences. Without an active exploration mechanism, standard DT rel…

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2026

Latent State-Predictive Exploration for Deep Reinforcement Learning

AAAI 2026technical

Reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved promising results in continuous control tasks, where efficient exploration of the state space is crucial for success. However, many recent RL approaches still struggle with sample inefficiency and insufficient exploration for long-horizon tasks, particularly

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2026

Preference Goal Tuning: Post-Training as Latent Control for Frozen Policies

ICML 2026poster

Goal-conditioned policies enable decision-making models to execute diverse behaviors based on specified goals, yet their downstream performance is often highly sensitive to the choice of instructions or prompts. To bypass the limitations of discrete text prompts, we formulate post-training adaptatio…

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2026

VLA-Arena: An Open-Source Framework for Benchmarking Vision-Language-Action Models

ICML 2026poster

While Vision-Language-Action models (VLAs) are rapidly advancing toward generalist robot policies, quantitatively characterizing their capability boundaries and failure modes remains challenging. To address this, we introduce **VLA-Arena**, a comprehensive benchmark. It features a novel structured t…

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2025

PKU-SafeRLHF: Towards Multi-Level Safety Alignment for LLMs with Human Preference

ACL 2025long

In this work, we introduce the PKU-SafeRLHF dataset, designed to promote research on safety alignment in large language models (LLMs). As a sibling project to SafeRLHF and BeaverTails, we separate annotations of helpfulness and harmlessness for question-answering pairs, providing distinct perspectiv…

2025

SafeVLA: Towards Safety Alignment of Vision-Language-Action Model via Constrained Learning

NeurIPS 2025spotlight

Vision-language-action models (VLAs) show potential as generalist robot policies. However, these models pose extreme safety challenges during real-world deployment, including the risk of harm to the environment, the robot itself, and humans. *How can safety constraints be explicitly integrated into…

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2024

Aligner: Efficient Alignment by Learning to Correct

NeurIPS 2024oral

With the rapid development of large language models (LLMs) and ever-evolving practical requirements, finding an efficient and effective alignment method has never been more critical. However, the tension between the complexity of current alignment methods and the need for rapid iteration in deployme…

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2024

SafeDreamer: Safe Reinforcement Learning with World Models

ICLR 2024poster

The deployment of Reinforcement Learning (RL) in real-world applications is constrained by its failure to satisfy safety criteria. Existing Safe Reinforcement Learning (SafeRL) methods, which rely on cost functions to enforce safety, often fail to achieve zero-cost performance in complex scenarios,…

2023

Safety Gymnasium: A Unified Safe Reinforcement Learning Benchmark

NeurIPS 2023poster

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems possess significant potential to drive societal progress. However, their deployment often faces obstacles due to substantial safety concerns. Safe reinforcement learning (SafeRL) emerges as a solution to optimize policies while simultaneously adhering to multiple…

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