7 papers
Understanding Reasoning from Pretraining to Post-Training
Jingyan Shen, Ang Li, Salman Rahman +4
Reinforcement learning (RL) has become central to improving large language models (LLMs) on complex reasoning tasks, yet RL post-training is largely studied in isolation from the p…
When Can LLMs Learn to Reason with Weak Supervision?
Salman Rahman, Jingyan Shen, Anna Mordvina +3
Large language models have achieved significant reasoning improvements through reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR). Yet as model capabilities grow, constructing h…
Improving Data Efficiency for LLM Reinforcement Fine-tuning Through Difficulty-targeted Online Data Selection and Rollout Replay
Yifan Sun, Jingyan Shen, Yibin Wang +4
Reinforcement learning (RL) has become an effective approach for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs), particularly to enhance their reasoning capabilities. However, RL fine-tu…
When Reasoning Meets Its Laws
Junyu Zhang, Yifan Sun, Tianang Leng +4
Despite the superior performance of Large Reasoning Models (LRMs), their reasoning behaviors are often counterintuitive, leading to suboptimal reasoning capabilities. To theoretica…
MiCRo: Mixture Modeling and Context-aware Routing for Personalized Preference Learning
Jingyan Shen, Jiarui Yao, Rui Yang +5
Reward modeling is a key step in building safe foundation models when applying reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) to align Large Language Models (LLMs). However, rew…
Rethinking Diverse Human Preference Learning through Principal Component Analysis
Feng Luo, Rui Yang, Hao Sun +5
Understanding human preferences is crucial for improving foundation models and building personalized AI systems. However, preferences are inherently diverse and complex, making it…