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Hongtu Zhou

7 accepted papers

2026

Beyond Penalization: Diffusion-based Out-of-Distribution Detection and Selective Regularization in Offline Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2026poster

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) faces a critical challenge of overestimating the value of out-of-distribution (OOD) actions. Existing methods mitigate this issue by penalizing unseen samples, yet they fail to accurately identify OOD actions and may suppress beneficial exploration beyond the beh…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Potentially Optimal Joint Actions Recognition for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2026poster

Value function factorization is widely used in cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Existing approaches often impose monotonicity constraints between the joint action value and individual action values to enable decentralized execution. However, such constraints limit the expressiv…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Batch Informed Vines (BIV*): Heuristically Guided Exploration of Narrow Passages by Batch Vine Expansion

RA-L 2025

Commonly used asymptotically convergent sampling algorithms (SBP) often utilize the Informed Set (IS) to enhance sampling efficiency. However, IS typically requires obtaining a low-cost solution first, which is challenging when narrow passages are present in the environment. To address the narrow pa

Cited by 4SourceScholar
2025

CERTAIN: Context Uncertainty-aware One-Shot Adaptation for Context-based Offline Meta Reinforcement Learning

ICML 2025poster

Existing context-based offline meta-reinforcement learning (COMRL) methods primarily focus on task representation learning and given-context adaptation performance. They often assume that the adaptation context is collected using task-specific behavior policies or through multiple rounds of collecti…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

Focus On What Matters: Separated Models For Visual-Based RL Generalization

NeurIPS 2024poster

A primary challenge for visual-based Reinforcement Learning (RL) is to generalize effectively across unseen environments. Although previous studies have explored different auxiliary tasks to enhance generalization, few adopt image reconstruction due to concerns about exacerbating overfitting to task…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2024

Safe Reinforcement Learning With Dead-Ends Avoidance and Recovery

RA-L 2024

Safety is one of the main challenges in applying reinforcement learning to tasks in realistic environments. To ensure safety during and after the training process, existing methods tend to adopt overly conservative policies to avoid unsafe situations. However, an overly conservative policy severely

Cited by 10SourceScholar
2023

How to Fine-tune the Model: Unified Model Shift and Model Bias Policy Optimization

NeurIPS 2023poster

Designing and deriving effective model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) algorithms with a performance improvement guarantee is challenging, mainly attributed to the high coupling between model learning and policy optimization. Many prior methods that rely on return discrepancy to guide model lear…

Cited by 9SourcePDFScholar