GoldenStart: Q-Guided Priors and Entropy Control for Distilling Flow Policies

arXiv:2603.14245 · cs.LG, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-03-15 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-03-15

Updated: 2026-03-15

Comments: 23 pages, 13 figures

Journal ref: Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), pp. 33674-33696, 2026

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Actor — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Distillation — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Entropy Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generative Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Policy distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning (RL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 25 episodes

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