14 papers
AgentGym2: Benchmarking Large Language Model Agents in De-Idealized Real-World Environments
Zhiheng Xi, Dingwen Yang, Jiaqi Liu +21
Language agents, i.e., LLM agents, progress rapidly and are increasingly deployed in production environments. This trend underscores the urgent need for rigorous and realistic eval…
Entropy Polarity in Reinforcement Fine-Tuning: Direction, Asymmetry, and Control
Jiazheng Zhang, Ziche Fu, Junrui Shen +17
Policy entropy has emerged as a fundamental measure for understanding and controlling exploration in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) for LLMs. However, existi…
LLMEval-Fair: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Study on Robust and Fair Evaluation of Large Language Models
Ming Zhang, Yujiong Shen, Jingyi Deng +19
Existing evaluation of Large Language Models (LLMs) on static benchmarks is vulnerable to data contamination and leaderboard overfitting, critical issues that obscure true model ca…
Locate, Steer, and Improve: A Practical Survey of Actionable Mechanistic Interpretability in Large Language Models
Hengyuan Zhang, Zhihao Zhang, Mingyang Wang +26
Mechanistic Interpretability (MI) has emerged as a vital approach to demystify the opaque decision-making of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, existing reviews primarily treat…
Can RL Improve Generalization of LLM Agents? An Empirical Study
Zhiheng Xi, Xin Guo, Jiaqi Liu +11
Reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT) has shown promise for training LLM agents to perform multi-turn decision-making based on environment feedback. However, most existing evaluations re…
Why Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Enables MLLMs Preserve Prior Knowledge Better: A Data Perspective
Zhihao Zhang, Qiaole Dong, Qi Zhang +12
Post-training algorithms such as Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) are widely used to adapt (multimodal) large language models to downstream tasks. W…