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8 papers

cs.LG2026

LLM-as-a-Coach: Experiential Learning for Non-Verifiable Tasks

Tianzhu Ye, Li Dong, Guanheng Chen +4

Reinforcement learning (RL) on open-ended tasks compresses an LLM's rubric-based evaluation into a scalar reward, discarding rich textual feedback and conflating responses with dis…

cs.CL2026

Online Experiential Learning for Language Models

Tianzhu Ye, Li Dong, Qingxiu Dong +3

The prevailing paradigm for improving large language models relies on offline training with human annotations or simulated environments, leaving the rich experience accumulated dur…

cs.CL2026

Universal YOCO for Efficient Depth Scaling

Yutao Sun, Li Dong, Tianzhu Ye +3

The rise of test-time scaling has remarkably boosted the reasoning and agentic proficiency of Large Language Models (LLMs). Yet, standard Transformers struggle to scale inference-t…

cs.CL2026

On-Policy Context Distillation for Language Models

Tianzhu Ye, Li Dong, Xun Wu +2

Context distillation enables language models to internalize in-context knowledge into their parameters. In our work, we propose On-Policy Context Distillation (OPCD), a framework t…

cs.CL2026

Black-Box On-Policy Distillation of Large Language Models

Tianzhu Ye, Li Dong, Zewen Chi +3

Black-box distillation creates student large language models (LLMs) by learning from a proprietary teacher model's text outputs alone, without access to its internal logits or para…

cs.LG2025

SeerAttention-R: Sparse Attention Adaptation for Long Reasoning

Yizhao Gao, Shuming Guo, Shijie Cao +12

We introduce SeerAttention-R, a sparse attention framework specifically tailored for the long decoding of reasoning models. Extended from SeerAttention, SeerAttention-R retains the…