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cs.AI2026

Not All Tokens Deserve Equal Credit: Counterfactual Sensitivity Credit Reallocation for Long-CoT Reasoning

Qiangqiang He, Zhongheng Wu, ZiJian Wang

The paper examines how uniformly assigning credit to all tokens during reinforcement learning for long chain‑of‑thought reasoning can be misleading, and introduces Counterfactual S…

cs.LG2026

LoRA Scaffolded Policy Optimization (LSPO): A Sampling-Time Low-Rank Scaffold for Recovering Reinforcement-Learning Gradient on Zero-Reward Cliff Prompts

Ken Ding

The paper introduces LoRA Scaffolded Policy Optimization (LSPO), a sampling-time low-rank adapter method that recovers gradient information for reinforcement learning on difficult…

cs.LG2026

Beyond the Best Teacher: Expanding and Compressing the Reasoning Solution Manifold

Songshuo Lu, Zhi Chen, Yaohua Tang

The paper proposes an expand‑then‑compress framework that builds a diverse set of RL‑trained teacher models and then distills them into a single student model, improving reasoning,…

cs.IR2026

Hierarchical Latent Reasoning for LLM-based Recommendation

Peiyu Hu, Siying Gu, Weihai Lu +8

The paper introduces HiLaR, a framework that uses hierarchical latent reasoning and layer-aware reinforcement optimization to improve recommendation performance of large language m…

cs.SD2026

Cocktail-Talker: Multi-Speaker Dialog Modeling in Noisy Social Environments with Turn Action GRPO

Xilin Jiang, Riki Shimizu, Sukru Samet Dindar +3

The paper presents Cocktail-Talker, a speech‑language model framework that lets a spoken assistant decide whether to respond, listen, or ignore in multi‑speaker, noisy social conve…

cs.CV2026

RefineSVG: Visual Feedback-Driven Reinforcement Learning for Image-to-SVG Generation

Shaobo Liu, Feiqiao Mao, Shuaishuai Zhou +4

RefineSVG introduces a closed-loop visual feedback system that lets large multimodal language models iteratively correct SVG code by rendering the output, comparing it to the targe…