Decision Transformers: the paper trail, organized
Because Decision Transformer papers are now appearing faster than bootstrapped value estimates.

What it does This is a curated awesome-list that catalogs research papers on Decision Transformers—the approach that recasts offline reinforcement learning as conditional sequence modeling. It sorts papers by venue and year, tags them with keywords like multi-agent RL, safe RL, and text conditioning, and links out to PDFs and code when available. Think of it as a manually maintained search index for a subfield that has sprawled across arXiv and every major ML conference.
The interesting bit The list does not just dump links; it provides a concise overview of the core DT architecture and advantages (no bootstrapping, no discounting myopia), plus a dedicated taxonomy and survey section to orient newcomers. That context layer is the difference between a folder of PDFs and an actual map.
Key highlights
- Coverage spans offline RL, multi-agent, safe RL, text-conditioned control, and even network intrusion detection.
- Entries include authors, venue, keywords, and experiment environments such as
D4RL,Atari, andSMAC. - Organized chronologically by conference (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, etc.) from 2021 through 2025 and beyond.
- Maintained by OpenDILab and actively updated; includes several survey papers for meta-reading.
Verdict Bookmark this if you are writing a literature review or trying to catch a DT variant you half-remember from a poster session; skip it if you are hunting for a unified codebase or framework.
Frequently asked
- What is opendilab/awesome-decision-transformer?
- Because Decision Transformer papers are now appearing faster than bootstrapped value estimates.
- Is awesome-decision-transformer open source?
- Yes — opendilab/awesome-decision-transformer is open source, released under the Apache-2.0 license.
- How popular is awesome-decision-transformer?
- opendilab/awesome-decision-transformer has 914 stars on GitHub.
- Where can I find awesome-decision-transformer?
- opendilab/awesome-decision-transformer is on GitHub at https://github.com/opendilab/awesome-decision-transformer.