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7 papers

cs.LG2026

Non-Adversarial Imitation Learning Provably Free of Compounding Errors: The Value Flow Mechanism

Tian Xu, Chenyang Wang, Xiaochen Zhai +3

Adversarial imitation learning (AIL) achieves high-quality imitation by mitigating compounding errors inherent to behavioral cloning (BC), yet its adversarial optimization frequent…

cs.LG2026

Understanding Adversarial Imitation Learning in Small Sample Regime: A Stage-coupled Analysis

Tian Xu, Ziniu Li, Yang Yu +1

Imitation learning learns a policy from expert trajectories. While the expert data is believed to be crucial for imitation quality, it was found that a kind of imitation learning a…

stat.ML2025

On the Algorithmic Bias of Aligning Large Language Models with RLHF: Preference Collapse and Matching Regularization

Jiancong Xiao, Ziniu Li, Xingyu Xie +4

Accurately aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences is crucial for informing fair, economically sound, and statistically efficient decision-making processes. Ho…

cs.AI2025

A Survey on Large Language Models for Mathematical Reasoning

Peng-Yuan Wang, Tian-Shuo Liu, Chenyang Wang +8

Mathematical reasoning has long represented one of the most fundamental and challenging frontiers in artificial intelligence research. In recent years, large language models (LLMs)…

cs.LG2025

Preserving Diversity in Supervised Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models

Ziniu Li, Congliang Chen, Tian Xu +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) typically rely on Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) to specialize in downstream tasks, with the Cross Entropy (CE) loss being the de facto choice. However,…

cs.CL2025

Controlling Large Language Model with Latent Actions

Chengxing Jia, Ziniu Li, Pengyuan Wang +4

Adapting Large Language Models (LLMs) to downstream tasks using Reinforcement Learning (RL) has proven to be an effective approach. However, LLMs do not inherently define the struc…