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mention·arXiv Physical AI·AUGUST 21, 2026

The core breakthrough of this paper is exploiting the asymmetry between behavior cloning (BC) and Q-learning: BC can only be trained on successful demonstrations, while an off-policy Q-function can be trained on *any* rollout, including failures.

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