--- title: Pushing RL Boundaries: Integrating Foundational Models,... description: This post discusses how pre-trained foundational models such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) can enhance the capabilities of... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/pushing-rl-boundaries-integrating-foundational-models-e-g-llms-and-vlms-into-reinforcement-learn-iiau1gm7v twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Pushing RL Boundaries: Integrating Foundational Models, e.g. LLMs and VLMs, into Reinforcement Learning | daily.dev og:description: This post discusses how pre-trained foundational models such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) can enhance the capabilities of... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/pushing-rl-boundaries-integrating-foundational-models-e-g-llms-and-vlms-into-reinforcement-learn-iiau1gm7v og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/iiAU1gM7V.png og:image:alt: Pushing RL Boundaries: Integrating Foundational Models, e.g. LLMs and VLMs, into Reinforcement Learning og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Pushing RL Boundaries: Integrating Foundational Models, e.g. LLMs and VLMs, into Reinforcement Learning **[Towards Data Science](https://daily.dev/sources/tds)** · 15 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary This post discusses how pre-trained foundational models such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) can enhance the capabilities of reinforcement learning algorithms. 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