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8 papers

cs.AI2026

Latent Reward Steering: An Adaptive Inference-Time Framework that Implicitly Promotes Cognitive Behaviors in Reasoning LLMs

Jiakang Li, Guanyu Zhu, Can Jin +8

Strong reasoning depends not only on model knowledge but also on how effectively cognitive behaviors are deployed during generation. Existing methods often rely on explicit behavio…

cs.AI2026

Evidence Over Plans: Online Trajectory Verification for Skill Distillation

Yang Zhou, Zihan Dong, Zhenting Wang +7

Agent skills can remarkably improve task success rates by using human-written procedural documents, but their quality is difficult to assess without environment-grounded verificati…

cs.IR2026

AgentGR: Semantic-aware Agentic Group Decision-Making Simulator for Group Recommendation

Yangtao Zhou, Wenhao You, Hua Chu +4

Group Recommendation (GR) aims to suggest items to a group of users, which has become a critical component of modern social platforms. Existing GR methods focus on aggregating indi…

cs.LG2026

DARE: Difficulty-Adaptive Reinforcement Learning with Co-Evolved Difficulty Estimation

Yang Zhou, Can Jin, Zihan Dong +7

Reinforcement learning improves the reasoning ability of large language models but remains costly and sample-inefficient, as many rollouts provide weak learning signals. Difficulty…

cs.DC2026

Unleashing Scalable Context Parallelism for Foundation Models Pre-Training via FCP

Yilong Zhao, Xiaonan Nie, Kan Zhu +6

Context parallelism (CP) has been widely adopted to support the growing context length in foundation model pretraining. However, existing designs fail to handle the large variation…

cs.AI2026

Jackpot: Optimal Budgeted Rejection Sampling for Extreme Actor-Policy Mismatch Reinforcement Learning

Zhuoming Chen, Hongyi Liu, Yang Zhou +2

Reinforcement learning (RL) for large language models (LLMs) remains expensive, particularly because the rollout is expensive. Decoupling rollout generation from policy optimizatio…