Why reinforcement learning plateaus without representation depth (and other key takeaways from NeurIPS 2025)

Why reinforcement learning plateaus without representation depth (and other key takeaways from NeurIPS 2025) ...
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Microsoft Rho-alpha robotics model: Faster, smarter robot learning

Robotics is entering a new phase where general-purpose learning matters as much as mechanical design. Instead of programming ...
Geeky Gadgets

Reinforcement Learning for LLMs in 2025

Imagine trying to teach a child how to solve a tricky math problem. You might start by showing them examples, guiding them step by step, and encouraging them to think critically about their approach.
VentureBeat

DeepSeek-R1’s bold bet on reinforcement learning: How it outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the cost

DeepSeek-R1's release last Monday has sent shockwaves through the AI community, disrupting assumptions about what’s required to achieve cutting-edge AI performance. Matching OpenAI’s o1 at just 3%-5% ...
The Robot Report

Microsoft Research reveals Rho-alpha vision-language-action model for robots

The Rho-alpha model incorporates sensor modalities such as tactile feedback and is trained with human guidance, says ...
SiliconANGLE

AWS simplifies AI agent customization with automated reinforcement learning

Amazon Web Services Inc. wants to solve the efficiency challenges of artificial intelligence agents and reduce their overall inference demands, and it’s tackling the problem with more advanced model ...
EurekAlert!

Reinforcement learning world models for catalyst surface reconstruction: state-of-the-art review

This work presents an AI-based world model framework that simulates atomic-level reconstructions in catalyst surfaces under dynamic conditions. Focusing on AgPd nanoalloys, it leverages Dreamer-style ...
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How the Brain Uses Reinforcement Learning Beyond Just Mean Rewards

What if our brains learned from rewards not just by averaging them but by considering their full range of possibilities? A ...
Analytics India Magazine

Complex Reinforcement Learning Tasks Can Cost Up to $20,000 Each: EpochAI Report

Among those interviewed, one RL environment founder said, “I’ve seen $200 to $2,000 mostly. $20k per task would be rare but ...
EurekAlert!

Offline model-based reinforcement learning with causal structured world models

The architecture of FOCUS. Given offline data, FOCUS learns a $p$ value matrix by KCI test and then gets the causal structure by choosing a $p$ threshold. After ...