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cs.LG2026

Fine-Grained Analysis of Catastrophic Forgetting in Continual Learning via Algorithmic Stability

Guodong Zheng, Yan Sun, Peng Wang +5

Understanding catastrophic forgetting, in which learning new tasks degrades performance on previously learned tasks, remains a fundamental challenge in continual learning (CL). Exi…

cs.LG2026

Alignment-Guided Flow Transformer for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Policy Learning

Shengchao Hu, Peng Wang, Qiyang Zhou +5

Recent advances in Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models point toward general-purpose robotic intelligence by unifying perception, instruction, and control. Despite impressive progre…

cs.LG2026

Q-learning Penalized Transformer for Safe Offline Reinforcement Learning

Shengchao Hu, Peng Wang, Jifeng Hu +5

This paper addresses the problem of safe offline reinforcement learning, which involves training a policy to satisfy safety constraints using an offline dataset. This problem is in…

cs.LG2026

Closed-Form Spectral Regularization for Multi-Task Model Merging

Yongxian Wei, Runxi Cheng, Xingxuan Zhang +4

Model merging combines several independently fine-tuned experts into a single multi-task model without any training data, reducing the storage, serving, and decentralized-developme…

cs.LG2026

Rethinking the Personalized Relaxed Initialization in the Federated Learning: Consistency and Generalization

Li Shen, Yan Sun, Dacheng Tao

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed paradigm that coordinates massive local clients to collaboratively train a global model via stage-wise local training processes on the hete…

cs.LG2025

Adaptive Defense against Harmful Fine-Tuning for Large Language Models via Bayesian Data Scheduler

Zixuan Hu, Li Shen, Zhenyi Wang +2

Harmful fine-tuning poses critical safety risks to fine-tuning-as-a-service for large language models. Existing defense strategies preemptively build robustness via attack simulati…

cs.LG2025

Network Sparsity Unlocks the Scaling Potential of Deep Reinforcement Learning

Guozheng Ma, Lu Li, Zilin Wang +3

Effectively scaling up deep reinforcement learning models has proven notoriously difficult due to network pathologies during training, motivating various targeted interventions suc…

cs.LG2025

Hyper-modal Imputation Diffusion Embedding with Dual-Distillation for Federated Multimodal Knowledge Graph Completion

Ying Zhang, Yu Zhao, Xuhui Sui +5

With the increasing multimodal knowledge privatization requirements, multimodal knowledge graphs in different institutes are usually decentralized, lacking of effective collaborati…

cs.LG2025

Mastering Massive Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning via Mixture-of-Expert Decision Transformer

Yilun Kong, Guozheng Ma, Qi Zhao +4

Despite recent advancements in offline multi-task reinforcement learning (MTRL) have harnessed the powerful capabilities of the Transformer architecture, most approaches focus on a…

cs.LG2025

Decision Flow Policy Optimization

Jifeng Hu, Sili Huang, Siyuan Guo +6

In recent years, generative models have shown remarkable capabilities across diverse fields, including images, videos, language, and decision-making. By applying powerful generativ…

cs.LG2025★ 7 cited

Cross-Domain Diffusion with Progressive Alignment for Efficient Adaptive Retrieval

Junyu Luo, Yusheng Zhao, Xiao Luo +5

Unsupervised efficient domain adaptive retrieval aims to transfer knowledge from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain, while maintaining low storage cost and high…

cs.LG2025

Analytic Energy-Guided Policy Optimization for Offline Reinforcement Learning

Jifeng Hu, Sili Huang, Zhejian Yang +6

Conditional decision generation with diffusion models has shown powerful competitiveness in reinforcement learning (RL). Recent studies reveal the relation between energy-function-…

cs.LG2025

Low-Precision Training of Large Language Models: Methods, Challenges, and Opportunities

Zhiwei Hao, Jianyuan Guo, Li Shen +6

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive performance across various domains. However, the substantial hardware resources required for their training present a signific…

cs.LG2025

Combatting Dimensional Collapse in LLM Pre-Training Data via Diversified File Selection

Ziqing Fan, Siyuan Du, Shengchao Hu +5

Selecting high-quality pre-training data for large language models (LLMs) is crucial for enhancing their overall performance under limited computation budget, improving both traini…

cs.LG2025

SeWA: Selective Weight Average via Probabilistic Masking

Peng Wang, Shengchao Hu, Zerui Tao +5

Weight averaging has become a standard technique for enhancing model performance. However, methods such as Stochastic Weight Averaging (SWA) and Latest Weight Averaging (LAWA) ofte…

cs.LG2025

Safety Reasoning with Guidelines

Haoyu Wang, Zeyu Qin, Li Shen +3

Training safe LLMs remains a critical challenge. The most widely used method, Refusal Training (RT), struggles to generalize against various Out-of-Distribution (OOD) jailbreaking…

cs.LG2025

Merging Models on the Fly Without Retraining: A Sequential Approach to Scalable Continual Model Merging

Anke Tang, Enneng Yang, Li Shen +4

Deep model merging represents an emerging research direction that combines multiple fine-tuned models to harness their specialized capabilities across different tasks and domains.…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

A Unified Analysis for Finite Weight Averaging

Peng Wang, Li Shen, Zerui Tao +3

Averaging iterations of Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) have achieved empirical success in training deep learning models, such as Stochastic Weight Averaging (SWA), Exponential M…

cs.LG2024

Continual Task Learning through Adaptive Policy Self-Composition

Shengchao Hu, Yuhang Zhou, Ziqing Fan +4

Training a generalizable agent to continually learn a sequence of tasks from offline trajectories is a natural requirement for long-lived agents, yet remains a significant challeng…

cs.LG2024

Prompt Tuning with Diffusion for Few-Shot Pre-trained Policy Generalization

Shengchao Hu, Wanru Zhao, Weixiong Lin +3

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) methods harness previous experiences to derive an optimal policy, forming the foundation for pre-trained large-scale models (PLMs). When encount…

cs.LG2024

Task-Aware Harmony Multi-Task Decision Transformer for Offline Reinforcement Learning

Ziqing Fan, Shengchao Hu, Yuhang Zhou +4

The purpose of offline multi-task reinforcement learning (MTRL) is to develop a unified policy applicable to diverse tasks without the need for online environmental interaction. Re…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

Aligning Few-Step Diffusion Models with Dense Reward Difference Learning

Ziyi Zhang, Li Shen, Sen Zhang +6

Few-step diffusion models enable efficient high-resolution image synthesis but struggle to align with specific downstream objectives due to limitations of existing reinforcement le…

cs.LG2024

Communication Learning in Multi-Agent Systems from Graph Modeling Perspective

Shengchao Hu, Li Shen, Ya Zhang +1

In numerous artificial intelligence applications, the collaborative efforts of multiple intelligent agents are imperative for the successful attainment of target objectives. To enh…

cs.LG2024

Solving Continual Offline RL through Selective Weights Activation on Aligned Spaces

Jifeng Hu, Sili Huang, Li Shen +7

Continual offline reinforcement learning (CORL) has shown impressive ability in diffusion-based lifelong learning systems by modeling the joint distributions of trajectories. Howev…