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20182026
most citedMirror Descent Policy Optimization

23 citations · 49 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.LG2026

Frustratingly Simple Black-Box Adaptation of Language Models via Logit Bias

Ofek I. Cohen, Lior Shani, Aviv Rosenberg +3

Many organizations aim to adapt language models for internal use, both to improve performance on domain-specific tasks and to address privacy concerns around sensitive data. Howeve…

cs.CL2026

Latent Reasoning with Supervised Thinking States

Ido Amos, Avi Caciularu, Mor Geva +4

Reasoning with a chain-of-thought (CoT) enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to solve complex tasks but incurs significant inference costs due to the generation of long rationales.…

cs.LG2025

Reinforcement Learning with Discrete Diffusion Policies for Combinatorial Action Spaces

Haitong Ma, Ofir Nabati, Aviv Rosenberg +7

Reinforcement learning (RL) struggles to scale to large, combinatorial action spaces common in many real-world problems. This paper introduces a novel framework for training discre…

cs.CL2025

Enhancing Personalized Multi-Turn Dialogue with Curiosity Reward

Yanming Wan, Jiaxing Wu, Marwa Abdulhai +2

Effective conversational agents like large language models (LLMs) must personalize their interactions to adapt to user preferences, personalities, and attributes across diverse dom…

cs.CL2024

Embedding-Aligned Language Models

Guy Tennenholtz, Yinlam Chow, Chih-Wei Hsu +3

We propose a novel approach for training large language models (LLMs) to adhere to objectives defined within a latent embedding space. Our method leverages reinforcement learning (…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Offline Regularised Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models Alignment

Pierre Harvey Richemond, Yunhao Tang, Daniel Guo +15

The dominant framework for alignment of large language models (LLM), whether through reinforcement learning from human feedback or direct preference optimisation, is to learn from…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Multi-turn Reinforcement Learning from Preference Human Feedback

Lior Shani, Aviv Rosenberg, Asaf Cassel +10

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has become the standard approach for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences, allowing LLMs to demonstrate re…

cs.CL2023★ 5 cited

Demystifying Embedding Spaces using Large Language Models

Guy Tennenholtz, Yinlam Chow, Chih-Wei Hsu +6

Embeddings have become a pivotal means to represent complex, multi-faceted information about entities, concepts, and relationships in a condensed and useful format. Nevertheless, t…

cs.CL2023★ 4 cited

Factually Consistent Summarization via Reinforcement Learning with Textual Entailment Feedback

Paul Roit, Johan Ferret, Lior Shani +16

Despite the seeming success of contemporary grounded text generation systems, they often tend to generate factually inconsistent text with respect to their input. This phenomenon i…

cs.LG2023

Reinforcement Learning with History-Dependent Dynamic Contexts

Guy Tennenholtz, Nadav Merlis, Lior Shani +2

We introduce Dynamic Contextual Markov Decision Processes (DCMDPs), a novel reinforcement learning framework for history-dependent environments that generalizes the contextual MDP…

cs.LG2022

Reinforcement Learning with a Terminator

Guy Tennenholtz, Nadav Merlis, Lior Shani +5

We present the problem of reinforcement learning with exogenous termination. We define the Termination Markov Decision Process (TerMDP), an extension of the MDP framework, in which…

cs.LG2021

Online Apprenticeship Learning

Lior Shani, Tom Zahavy, Shie Mannor

In Apprenticeship Learning (AL), we are given a Markov Decision Process (MDP) without access to the cost function. Instead, we observe trajectories sampled by an expert that acts a…

cs.LG2020★ 23 cited

Mirror Descent Policy Optimization

Manan Tomar, Lior Shani, Yonathan Efroni +1

Mirror descent (MD), a well-known first-order method in constrained convex optimization, has recently been shown as an important tool to analyze trust-region algorithms in reinforc…

cs.LG2020★ 11 cited

Optimistic Policy Optimization with Bandit Feedback

Yonathan Efroni, Lior Shani, Aviv Rosenberg +1

Policy optimization methods are one of the most widely used classes of Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms. Yet, so far, such methods have been mostly analyzed from an optimizat…

cs.LG2019

Adaptive Trust Region Policy Optimization: Global Convergence and Faster Rates for Regularized MDPs

Lior Shani, Yonathan Efroni, Shie Mannor

Trust region policy optimization (TRPO) is a popular and empirically successful policy search algorithm in Reinforcement Learning (RL) in which a surrogate problem, that restricts…

cs.LG2018

Multi Instance Learning For Unbalanced Data

Mark Kozdoba, Edward Moroshko, Lior Shani +4

In the context of Multi Instance Learning, we analyze the Single Instance (SI) learning objective. We show that when the data is unbalanced and the family of classifiers is suffici…

cs.LG2018★ 4 cited

Exploration Conscious Reinforcement Learning Revisited

Lior Shani, Yonathan Efroni, Shie Mannor

The Exploration-Exploitation tradeoff arises in Reinforcement Learning when one cannot tell if a policy is optimal. Then, there is a constant need to explore new actions instead of…