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most citedPretraining Representations for Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning

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cs.LG2026

Learning to Solve Hard Problems in RL for LLMs by Never Giving Up

Michael Noukhovitch, Hamish Ivison, Nathan Lambert +1

We demonstrate that training LLMs with RL does not improve performance equally across a dataset. RL shows large improvements on easy problems that an LLM is already good at solving…

cs.LG2026

Gradient Regularization Mitigates Reward Hacking in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback and Verifiable Rewards

Johannes Ackermann, Michael Noukhovitch, Takashi Ishida +1

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) or Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) are two key steps in the post-training of modern Language Models (LMs). A common problem is reward ha…

cs.LG2025

Learning Robust Social Strategies with Large Language Models

Dereck Piche, Mohammed Muqeeth, Milad Aghajohari +3

As agentic AI becomes more widespread, agents with distinct and possibly conflicting goals will interact in complex ways. These multi-agent interactions pose a fundamental challeng…

cs.LG2024

Asynchronous RLHF: Faster and More Efficient Off-Policy RL for Language Models

Michael Noukhovitch, Shengyi Huang, Sophie Xhonneux +3

The dominant paradigm for RLHF is online and on-policy RL: synchronously generating from the large language model (LLM) policy, labelling with a reward model, and learning using fe…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

The N+ Implementation Details of RLHF with PPO: A Case Study on TL;DR Summarization

Shengyi Huang, Michael Noukhovitch, Arian Hosseini +3

This work is the first to openly reproduce the Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) scaling behaviors reported in OpenAI's seminal TL;DR summarization work. We create…

cs.LG2021★ 33 cited

Pretraining Representations for Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning

Max Schwarzer, Nitarshan Rajkumar, Michael Noukhovitch +5

Data efficiency is a key challenge for deep reinforcement learning. We address this problem by using unlabeled data to pretrain an encoder which is then finetuned on a small amount…