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cs.LG2026

Reliable and Responsible Foundation Models: A Comprehensive Survey

Xinyu Yang, Junlin Han, Rishi Bommasani +49

Foundation models, including Large Language Models (LLMs), Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), Image Generative Models (i.e, Text-to-Image Models and Image-Editing Models), a…

cs.LG2025

Big-Math: A Large-Scale, High-Quality Math Dataset for Reinforcement Learning in Language Models

Alon Albalak, Duy Phung, Nathan Lile +8

Increasing interest in reasoning models has led math to become a prominent testing ground for algorithmic and methodological improvements. However, existing open math datasets eith…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

D5RL: Diverse Datasets for Data-Driven Deep Reinforcement Learning

Rafael Rafailov, Kyle Hatch, Anikait Singh +9

Offline reinforcement learning algorithms hold the promise of enabling data-driven RL methods that do not require costly or dangerous real-world exploration and benefit from large…

cs.LG2024★ 4 cited

Preference Fine-Tuning of LLMs Should Leverage Suboptimal, On-Policy Data

Fahim Tajwar, Anikait Singh, Archit Sharma +6

Learning from preference labels plays a crucial role in fine-tuning large language models. There are several distinct approaches for preference fine-tuning, including supervised le…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Aligning Modalities in Vision Large Language Models via Preference Fine-tuning

Yiyang Zhou, Chenhang Cui, Rafael Rafailov +2

Instruction-following Vision Large Language Models (VLLMs) have achieved significant progress recently on a variety of tasks. These approaches merge strong pre-trained vision model…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

MOTO: Offline Pre-training to Online Fine-tuning for Model-based Robot Learning

Rafael Rafailov, Kyle Hatch, Victor Kolev +3

We study the problem of offline pre-training and online fine-tuning for reinforcement learning from high-dimensional observations in the context of realistic robot tasks. Recent of…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Offline Retraining for Online RL: Decoupled Policy Learning to Mitigate Exploration Bias

Max Sobol Mark, Archit Sharma, Fahim Tajwar +3

It is desirable for policies to optimistically explore new states and behaviors during online reinforcement learning (RL) or fine-tuning, especially when prior offline data does no…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Contrastive Preference Learning: Learning from Human Feedback without RL

Joey Hejna, Rafael Rafailov, Harshit Sikchi +4

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has emerged as a popular paradigm for aligning models with human intent. Typically RLHF algorithms operate in two phases: first, u…

cs.LG2023

Contrastive Example-Based Control

Kyle Hatch, Benjamin Eysenbach, Rafael Rafailov +4

While many real-world problems that might benefit from reinforcement learning, these problems rarely fit into the MDP mold: interacting with the environment is often expensive and…

cs.LG2023★ 294 cited

Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model

Rafael Rafailov, Archit Sharma, Eric Mitchell +3

While large-scale unsupervised language models (LMs) learn broad world knowledge and some reasoning skills, achieving precise control of their behavior is difficult due to the comp…

cs.LG2021★ 5 cited

Visual Adversarial Imitation Learning using Variational Models

Rafael Rafailov, Tianhe Yu, Aravind Rajeswaran +1

Reward function specification, which requires considerable human effort and iteration, remains a major impediment for learning behaviors through deep reinforcement learning. In con…

cs.LG2021★ 52 cited

COMBO: Conservative Offline Model-Based Policy Optimization

Tianhe Yu, Aviral Kumar, Rafael Rafailov +3

Model-based algorithms, which learn a dynamics model from logged experience and perform some sort of pessimistic planning under the learned model, have emerged as a promising parad…

cs.LG2020★ 16 cited

Offline Reinforcement Learning from Images with Latent Space Models

Rafael Rafailov, Tianhe Yu, Aravind Rajeswaran +1

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) refers to the problem of learning policies from a static dataset of environment interactions. Offline RL enables extensive use and re-use of his…

cs.LG2020★ 11 cited

Offline Meta-Reinforcement Learning with Advantage Weighting

Eric Mitchell, Rafael Rafailov, Xue Bin Peng +2

This paper introduces the offline meta-reinforcement learning (offline meta-RL) problem setting and proposes an algorithm that performs well in this setting. Offline meta-RL is ana…