FlowCritic: Bridging Value Estimation with Flow Matching in Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2510.22686 · cs.LG, cs.AI · Submitted 2025-10-26 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI

Submitted: 2025-10-26

Updated: 2026-10-22

Terminology

• Flow Matching — 3× in this paper · explained in 20 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Generative Modeling — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning (RL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 25 episodes

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