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12 papers

cs.LG2026

Right in the Right Way: LM Training with Verifiable Rewards and Human Demonstrations

Mehul Damani, Isha Puri, Idan Shenfeld +1

RL with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for training LMs on tasks with well-defined success metrics, such as code generation and mathematical reasoning…

cs.LG2026

Vector Policy Optimization: Training for Diversity Improves Test-Time Search

Ryan Bahlous-Boldi, Isha Puri, Idan Shenfeld +6

Language models must now generalize out of the box to novel environments and work inside inference-scaling search procedures, such as AlphaEvolve, that select rollouts with a varie…

cs.LG2026

Beyond Binary Rewards: Training LMs to Reason About Their Uncertainty

Mehul Damani, Isha Puri, Stewart Slocum +4

When language models (LMs) are trained via reinforcement learning (RL) to generate natural language "reasoning chains", their performance improves on a variety of difficult questio…

cs.CL2026

LLM Hypnosis: Exploiting User Feedback for Unauthorized Knowledge Injection to All Users

Almog Hilel, Riddhi Bhagwat, Idan Shenfeld +2

We describe a vulnerability in language models (LMs) trained with user feedback, whereby a single user can persistently alter LM knowledge and behavior given only the ability to pr…

cs.LG2026

Reaching Beyond the Mode: RL for Distributional Reasoning in Language Models

Isha Puri, Mehul Damani, Idan Shenfeld +3

Given a question, a language model (LM) implicitly encodes a distribution over possible answers. In practice, post-training procedures for LMs often collapse this distribution onto…

cs.CL2026

Aligning Language Models from User Interactions

Thomas Kleine Buening, Jonas Hübotter, Barna Pásztor +3

Multi-turn user interactions are among the most abundant data produced by language models, yet we lack effective methods to learn from them. While typically discarded, these intera…