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reinforcement learning frameworks

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Reinforcement learning frameworks provide specialized algorithms, simulation environments, and training pipelines to develop adaptive decision-making agents. Machine learning engineers, robotics developers, and AI researchers use these tools to optimize policies, run self-play pretraining, and align language models via feedback loops. Unlike general deep learning platforms, they focus specifically on reward-driven optimization, dynamic state transitions, and iterative self-improvement.

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Name Source Upvotes ▲ Launched
Maingen: Simulations of real industrial operations, so agents can run the physical world YC 5 2026-08-07
OpenDecision HN 6 2026-09-21
genpark-length-bias-penalty-reward-calibrator-skill GITHUB 7 2026-09-30
genpark-ppo-clipped-surrogate-loss-evaluator-skill GITHUB 7 2026-09-30
genpark-q-learning-temporal-difference-agent-skill GITHUB 7 2026-09-28
I built an integration for RL training of browser agents for everyone HN 7 2026-03-25
genpark-ppo-clipped-surrogate-engine-skill GITHUB 7 2026-09-10
genpark-ppo-clipped-surrogate-engine-skill GITHUB 7 2026-09-10
agent-as-policy GITHUB 8 2026-09-15
Open-GYM GITHUB 8 2026-09-23
genpark-q-learning-temporal-difference-rl-skill GITHUB 8 2026-09-09
Karotte, a framework for building robust RL envs HN 8 2026-10-07
genpark-q-learning-temporal-difference-rl-skill GITHUB 8 2026-09-09
genpark-markov-decision-process-value-iteration-skill GITHUB 8 2026-09-09
CUA-Sandbox-Efficient-Environments-for-Computer-Use-Reinforcement-Learning GITHUB 9 2026-09-26
Bench2Drive-RLinfra GITHUB 9 2026-09-30
Symbio self fine-tuning AI loop HN 10 2026-08-01
Jev vs. GPT-5.6 and Claude Haiku at Pong HN 10 2026-09-18
Real2Gym GITHUB 10 2026-09-28
indecis-vizdoom GITHUB 10 2026-09-28
ViSkill GITHUB 10 2026-10-08
NanoRL HN 11 2026-08-13
score-centering GITHUB 11 2026-09-14
ProgramGym GITHUB 12 2026-10-12
Tropical-Reinforcement-Learning GITHUB 12 2026-10-06
idler — push the frontier of your model YC 12 2026-08-19
survival-rl GITHUB 12 2026-09-27
FlowAWR GITHUB 13 2026-10-09
Latent-Foresight GITHUB 14 2026-10-01
POInfra GITHUB 14 2026-09-28
moongazer-rl GITHUB 15 2026-10-02
agentic-rl-forge GITHUB 15 2026-09-23
EasyPPO GITHUB 15 2026-09-29
JevAny GITHUB 17 2026-09-22
ER-TW-GRPO GITHUB 20 2026-09-19
ptcg-population-rl GITHUB 21 2026-09-12
Snake-Game-Reinforcement-Project GITHUB 23 2026-09-22
SOVA GITHUB 24 2026-09-13
JevGym GITHUB 27 2026-09-22
awesome-perception-aware-rlvr GITHUB 28 2026-10-02
Thinking_Reward_Model GITHUB 32 2026-09-28
xgoduck_rl GITHUB 36 2026-09-24
RSIGym GITHUB 41 2026-10-05
Cancer diagnosis makes for an interesting RL environment for LLMs HN 46 2025-11-12
self_play_pretraining GITHUB 53 2026-09-25
FlashREINFORCE GITHUB 56 2026-09-14
RVG_REFLEX GITHUB 61 2026-09-27
Simple-WAM GITHUB 65 2026-09-28
hangzhou-mahjong GITHUB 100 2026-10-10
I RL-trained an agent that trains models with RL (for ~$1.3k) HN 107 2026-07-14