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most citedA Survey on Recent Advances and Challenges in Reinforcement Learning Methods for Task-Oriented Dialogue Policy Learning

39 citations · 48 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

cs.AI2026

Bridging Auxiliary Constraints to Resolve Instruction Following in Large Reasoning Models

Zhengyi Zhao, Shubo Zhang, Huimin Wang +7

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in many tasks, yet they struggle with reliably following multiple instructions, either by failing to satisfy…

cs.CL2026

Beyond the Literal: Decomposing Pragmatic Intent in Multimodal Meme Understanding

Zhengyi Zhao, Shubo Zhang, Zezhong Wang +6

When asked what a meme or sarcastic post means, Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) tend to describe what the image shows rather than what the author is trying to communicate. Sta…

cs.CL2026

Guaranteeing Knowledge Integration with Joint Decoding for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Zhengyi Zhao, Shubo Zhang, Zezhong Wang +7

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) significantly enhances Large Language Models (LLMs) by providing access to external knowledge. However, current research primarily focuses on r…

cs.LG2026

Balancing the Reasoning Load: Difficulty-Differentiated Policy Optimization with Length Redistribution for Efficient and Robust Reinforcement Learning

Yinan Xia, Haotian Zhang, Huiming Wang

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have shown exceptional reasoning capabilities, but they also suffer from the issue of overthinking, often generating excessively long and redundant an…

cs.LG2026

From the Inside Out: Progressive Distribution Refinement for Confidence Calibration

Xizhong Yang, Yinan Xia, Huiming Wang +1

Leveraging the model's internal information as the self-reward signal in Reinforcement Learning (RL) has received extensive attention due to its label-free nature. While prior work…

cs.LG2026

Efficient RLVR Training via Weighted Mutual Information Data Selection

Xinyu Zhou, Boyu Zhu, Haotian Zhang +2

Reinforcement learning (RL) plays a central role in improving the reasoning and alignment of large language models, yet its efficiency critically depends on how training data are s…

cs.LG2026

CodeScaler: Scaling Code LLM Training and Test-Time Inference via Reward Models

Xiao Zhu, Xinyu Zhou, Boyu Zhu +5

Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has driven recent progress in code large language models by leveraging execution-based feedback from unit tests, but its scala…

cs.CL2025

Dual-Density Inference for Efficient Language Model Reasoning

Zhengyi Zhao, Shubo Zhang, Yuxi Zhang +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in complex reasoning tasks. However, current approaches employ uniform language density for both intermediate reason…

cs.AI2025

Towards Open-Ended Emotional Support Conversations in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning with Future-Oriented Rewards

Ting Yang, Li Chen, Huimin Wang

Emotional Support Conversation (ESC) systems aim to alleviate users' emotional difficulties and provide long-term, systematic support for emotional well-being. However, most large…

cs.AI2025

MemeReaCon: Probing Contextual Meme Understanding in Large Vision-Language Models

Zhengyi Zhao, Shubo Zhang, Yuxi Zhang +10

Memes have emerged as a popular form of multimodal online communication, where their interpretation heavily depends on the specific context in which they appear. Current approaches…

cs.CL2025

T: An Adaptive Test-Time Scaling Strategy for Contextual Question Answering

Zhengyi Zhao, Shubo Zhang, Zezhong Wang +7

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in Contextual Question Answering (CQA). However, prior approaches typically employ elaborat…

cs.CL2024

Self-DC: When to Reason and When to Act? Self Divide-and-Conquer for Compositional Unknown Questions

Hongru Wang, Boyang Xue, Baohang Zhou +5

Previous research has typically concentrated on leveraging the internal knowledge of Large Language Models (LLMs) to answer known questions (i.e., \textit{internal reasoning such a…

cs.AI2023★ 3 cited

TPE: Towards Better Compositional Reasoning over Conceptual Tools with Multi-persona Collaboration

Hongru Wang, Huimin Wang, Lingzhi Wang +6

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in planning the use of various functional tools, such as calculators and retrievers, particularly in question…

cs.CL2023

Dialog Action-Aware Transformer for Dialog Policy Learning

Huimin Wang, Wai-Chung Kwan, Kam-Fai Wong

Recent works usually address Dialog policy learning DPL by training a reinforcement learning (RL) agent to determine the best dialog action. However, existing works on deep RL requ…

cs.CL2023★ 3 cited

JoTR: A Joint Transformer and Reinforcement Learning Framework for Dialog Policy Learning

Wai-Chung Kwan, Huimin Wang, Hongru Wang +4

Dialogue policy learning (DPL) is a crucial component of dialogue modelling. Its primary role is to determine the appropriate abstract response, commonly referred to as the "dialog…

cs.CL2023

CoAD: Automatic Diagnosis through Symptom and Disease Collaborative Generation

Huimin Wang, Wai-Chung Kwan, Kam-Fai Wong +1

Automatic diagnosis (AD), a critical application of AI in healthcare, employs machine learning techniques to assist doctors in gathering patient symptom information for precise dis…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

UniTRec: A Unified Text-to-Text Transformer and Joint Contrastive Learning Framework for Text-based Recommendation

Zhiming Mao, Huimin Wang, Yiming Du +1

Prior study has shown that pretrained language models (PLM) can boost the performance of text-based recommendation. In contrast to previous works that either use PLM to encode user…

cs.CL2022★ 39 cited

A Survey on Recent Advances and Challenges in Reinforcement Learning Methods for Task-Oriented Dialogue Policy Learning

Wai-Chung Kwan, Hongru Wang, Huimin Wang +1

Dialogue Policy Learning is a key component in a task-oriented dialogue system (TDS) that decides the next action of the system given the dialogue state at each turn. Reinforcement…

cs.CL2021★ 1 cited

Integrating Pretrained Language Model for Dialogue Policy Learning

Hongru Wang, Huimin Wang, Zezhong Wang +1

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been witnessed its potential for training a dialogue policy agent towards maximizing the accumulated rewards given from users. However, the reward c…