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7 papers

cs.LG2026

Privileged Solutions or Context-Induced Teacher Behavior? Dissecting On-Policy Self-Distillation

Yuki Ichihara, Naoto Iwase, Mohammad Atif Quamar +1

On-Policy Self-Distillation (OPSD) is commonly interpreted as the transfer of privileged information: a teacher observes the verified solution to the target problem and supervises…

stat.ML2026

Reliable Chain-of-Thought via Prefix Consistency

Naoto Iwase, Yuki Ichihara, Mohammad Atif Quamar +1

Large Language Models often improve accuracy on reasoning tasks by sampling multiple Chain-of-Thought (CoT) traces and aggregating them with majority voting (MV), a test-time techn…

stat.ML2026

CITE: Anytime-Valid Statistical Inference in LLM Self-Consistency

Hirofumi Ota, Naoto Iwase, Yuki Ichihara +2

Large language models often improve reasoning by sampling multiple outputs and aggregating their final answers, but precise and efficient control of error levels remains a challeng…

cs.LG2026

Consensus Group Relative Policy Optimization for Text Generation

Yuki Ichihara, Yuu Jinnai, Kaito Ariu +1

Many strong decoding methods for text generation follow a sample-and-rerank paradigm: they draw multiple candidates, score each under a utility (reward) function using consensus ac…

cs.LG2026

MO-GRPO: Mitigating Reward Hacking of Group Relative Policy Optimization on Multi-Objective Problems

Yuki Ichihara, Yuu Jinnai, Tetsuro Morimura +3

Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) has been shown to be an effective algorithm when an accurate reward model is available. However, such a highly reliable reward model is no…

cs.CL2025

Theoretical Guarantees for Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding

Yuki Ichihara, Yuu Jinnai, Kaito Ariu +2

Minimum Bayes Risk (MBR) decoding optimizes output selection by maximizing the expected utility value of an underlying human distribution. While prior work has shown the effectiven…