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Zergham Ahmed, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Chris Bates, Samuel J. Gershman: Code to Control: Synthesizing Parameterized Reactive Controllers https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38733 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.38733 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.38733

Code to Control: Synthesizing Parameterized Reactive Controllers arxiv.org

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• The method uses an LLM to synthesize a Python controller once, then runs that controller as the policy with no LLM calls at decision time.
• Program structure comes from the LLM, while a derivative-free search fits the controller's parameters by interacting with the environment.
• The authors benchmark on Atari, Flappy Bird, and MuJoCo tasks, claiming the method beats planning-based program synthesis and stays competitive with deep RL.

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Zergham Ahmed, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Chris Bates, Samuel J. Gershman: Code to Control: Synthesizing Parameterized Reactive Controllers https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38733 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.38733 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.38733

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Zergham Ahmed, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Chris Bates, Samuel J. Gershman: Code to Control: Synthesizing Parameterized Reactive Controllers https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.38733 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2609.38733 https://arxiv.org/html/2609.38733

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Lance Ying, William Van Uitert, Tan Zhi-Xuan, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Samuel J. Gershman: Pragmatic Reasoning in Design https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26322 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.26322 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.26322

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Lance Ying, William Van Uitert, Tan Zhi-Xuan, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Samuel J. Gershman: Pragmatic Reasoning in Design https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26322 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.26322 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.26322

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Lance Ying, William Van Uitert, Tan Zhi-Xuan, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Samuel J. Gershman: Pragmatic Reasoning in Design https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.26322 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.26322 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.26322

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Lance Ying, Ryan Truong, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Samuel J. Gershman: Using Theory of Mind to Arbitrate between Social and Non-social Learning https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28601 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.28601 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.28601

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Lance Ying, Ryan Truong, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Samuel J. Gershman: Using Theory of Mind to Arbitrate between Social and Non-social Learning https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28601 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.28601 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.28601

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Lance Ying, Ryan Truong, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Samuel J. Gershman: Using Theory of Mind to Arbitrate between Social and Non-social Learning https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.28601 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.28601 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.28601

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