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most citedToward Self-Improvement of LLMs via Imagination, Searching, and Criticizing

4 citations · 16 across the 34 of their papers we have counts for

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37 papers

cs.LG2026

FlashMemory-DeepSeek-V4: Lightning Index Ultra-Long Context via Lookahead Sparse Attention

Yan Wang, Qifan Zhang, Jiachen Yu +12

Conventional LLMs keep the full KV cache loaded during decoding, causing a severe GPU memory bottleneck for ultra-long context serving. In this report, we propose \textbf{Lookahead…

cs.LG2026

Too Correct to Learn: Reinforcement Learning on Saturated Reasoning Data

Zhenwen Liang, Yujun Zhou, Sidi Lu +3

Reinforcement Learning (RL) enhances LLM reasoning, yet a paradox emerges as models scale: strong base models saturate standard benchmarks (e.g., MATH), yielding correct but homoge…

cs.SD2026

Audio-DeepThinker: Progressive Reasoning-Aware Reinforcement Learning for High-Quality Chain-of-Thought Emergence in Audio Language Models

Xiang He, Chenxing Li, Jinting Wang +5

Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) have made significant progress in audio understanding, yet they primarily operate as perception-and-answer systems without explicit reasoning pr…

cs.CL2026

Verified Critical Step Optimization for LLM Agents

Mukai Li, Qingcheng Zeng, Tianqing Fang +5

As large language model agents tackle increasingly complex long-horizon tasks, effective post-training becomes critical. Prior work faces fundamental challenges: outcome-only rewar…

cs.LG2026

Group Distributionally Robust Optimization-Driven Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning

Kishan Panaganti, Zhenwen Liang, Wenhao Yu +2

Recent progress in Large Language Model (LLM) reasoning is increasingly driven by the refinement of post-training loss functions and alignment strategies. However, standard Reinfor…

cs.LG2026

Save the Good Prefix: Precise Error Penalization via Process-Supervised RL to Enhance LLM Reasoning

Haolin Liu, Dian Yu, Sidi Lu +6

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful framework for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). However, most existing RL approaches rely…

cs.AI2026

Inference-Time Scaling of Verification: Self-Evolving Deep Research Agents via Test-Time Rubric-Guided Verification

Yuxuan Wan, Tianqing Fang, Zaitang Li +5

Recent advances in Deep Research Agents (DRAs) are transforming automated knowledge discovery and problem-solving. While the majority of existing efforts focus on enhancing policy…

cs.LG2025

Stable and Efficient Single-Rollout RL for Multimodal Reasoning

Rui Liu, Dian Yu, Lei Ke +6

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has become a key paradigm to improve the reasoning capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, prevalen…

cs.LG2025

Every Question Has Its Own Value: Reinforcement Learning with Explicit Human Values

Dian Yu, Yulai Zhao, Kishan Panaganti +3

We propose Reinforcement Learning with Explicit Human Values (RLEV), a method that aligns Large Language Model (LLM) optimization directly with quantifiable human value signals. Wh…

cs.CL2025

CLUE: Non-parametric Verification from Experience via Hidden-State Clustering

Zhenwen Liang, Ruosen Li, Yujun Zhou +5

Assessing the quality of Large Language Model (LLM) outputs presents a critical challenge. Previous methods either rely on text-level information (e.g., reward models, majority vot…

cs.AI2025

Dual-Uncertainty Guided Policy Learning for Multimodal Reasoning

Rui Liu, Dian Yu, Tong Zheng +8

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has advanced reasoning capabilities in multimodal large language models. However, existing methods typically treat visual inpu…

cs.CL2025

EconProver: Towards More Economical Test-Time Scaling for Automated Theorem Proving

Mukai Li, Linfeng Song, Zhenwen Liang +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently advanced the field of Automated Theorem Proving (ATP), attaining substantial performance gains through widely adopted test-time scaling s…

cs.CL2025

CDE: Curiosity-Driven Exploration for Efficient Reinforcement Learning in Large Language Models

Runpeng Dai, Linfeng Song, Haolin Liu +8

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) is a powerful paradigm for enhancing the reasoning ability of Large Language Models (LLMs). Yet current RLVR methods often exp…

cs.LG2025

Evolving Language Models without Labels: Majority Drives Selection, Novelty Promotes Variation

Yujun Zhou, Zhenwen Liang, Haolin Liu +7

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly trained with reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR), yet real-world deployment demands models that can self-improve wit…

cs.LO2025

Towards Solving More Challenging IMO Problems via Decoupled Reasoning and Proving

Zhenwen Liang, Linfeng Song, Yang Li +4

Automated Theorem Proving (ATP) in formal languages is a foundational challenge for AI. While Large Language Models (LLMs) have driven remarkable progress, a significant gap remain…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

One Token to Fool LLM-as-a-Judge

Yulai Zhao, Haolin Liu, Dian Yu +4

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly trusted as automated judges, assisting evaluation and providing reward signals for training other models, particularly in reference-ba…

cs.AI2025

MPS-Prover: Advancing Stepwise Theorem Proving by Multi-Perspective Search and Data Curation

Zhenwen Liang, Linfeng Song, Yang Li +4

Automated Theorem Proving (ATP) in formal languages remains a formidable challenge in AI, demanding rigorous logical deduction and navigating vast search spaces. While large langua…

cs.CL2025

Crossing the Reward Bridge: Expanding RL with Verifiable Rewards Across Diverse Domains

Yi Su, Dian Yu, Linfeng Song +5

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has demonstrated significant success in enhancing mathematical reasoning and coding performance of large language models (LLMs…

cs.LG2025

Improving LLM General Preference Alignment via Optimistic Online Mirror Descent

Yuheng Zhang, Dian Yu, Tao Ge +5

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has demonstrated remarkable effectiveness in aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. Many existing alignment…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

Do NOT Think That Much for 2+3=? On the Overthinking of o1-Like LLMs

Xingyu Chen, Jiahao Xu, Tian Liang +11

The remarkable performance of models like the OpenAI o1 can be attributed to their ability to emulate human-like long-time thinking during inference. These models employ extended c…

cs.LG2024

Low-Bit Quantization Favors Undertrained LLMs: Scaling Laws for Quantized LLMs with 100T Training Tokens

Xu Ouyang, Tao Ge, Thomas Hartvigsen +3

We reveal that low-bit quantization favors undertrained large language models (LLMs) by observing that models with larger sizes or fewer training tokens experience less quantizatio…

cs.LG2024

Towards Self-Improvement of LLMs via MCTS: Leveraging Stepwise Knowledge with Curriculum Preference Learning

Xiyao Wang, Linfeng Song, Ye Tian +5

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) has recently emerged as a powerful technique for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of LLMs. Techniques such as SFT or DPO have enabled LLMs to dis…

cs.AI2024

DOTS: Learning to Reason Dynamically in LLMs via Optimal Reasoning Trajectories Search

Murong Yue, Wenlin Yao, Haitao Mi +3

Enhancing the capability of large language models (LLMs) in reasoning has gained significant attention in recent years. Previous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of vari…

cs.CL2024

HDFlow: Enhancing LLM Complex Problem-Solving with Hybrid Thinking and Dynamic Workflows

Wenlin Yao, Haitao Mi, Dong Yu

Despite recent advancements in large language models (LLMs), their performance on complex reasoning problems requiring multi-step thinking and combining various skills is still lim…