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

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cs.CL2026

Exploring the Design Space of Permutation Diffusion LLMs

Zhe Xu, Mingfu Liang, Kavosh Asadi +16

Permutation generation with language models requires both text-conditioned ranking and a global one-to-one assignment between candidates and output positions. We study this problem…

cs.IR2026

GR2 Technical Report

Yufei Li, Zaiwei Zhang, Mingfu Liang +67

Industrial recommendation systems serve billions of users through a multi-stage funnel -- retrieval, early-stage ranking, and re-ranking -- where the final re-ranking step dispropo…

cs.AI2026

Learning to Build the Environment: Self-Evolving Reasoning RL via Verifiable Environment Synthesis

Yucheng Shi, Zhenwen Liang, Kishan Panaganti +3

We pursue a vision for self-improving language models in which the model does not merely generate problems or traces to imitate, but constructs the environments that train it. In z…

cs.CL2026

DeltaRubric: Generative Multimodal Reward Modeling via Joint Planning and Verification

Rui Liu, Dian Yu, Zhenwen Liang +6

Aligning Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) requires reliable reward models, yet existing single-step evaluators can suffer from lazy judging, exploiting language priors over…

cs.CV2026

Reinforcing Multimodal Reasoning Against Visual Degradation

Rui Liu, Dian Yu, Haolin Liu +6

Reinforcement Learning has significantly advanced the reasoning capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), yet the resulting policies remain brittle against real-wor…

cs.CL2026

SimReg: Achieving Higher Performance in the Pretraining via Embedding Similarity Regularization

Yan Sun, Guoxia Wang, Jinle Zeng +6

Pretraining large language models (LLMs) with next-token prediction has led to remarkable advances, yet the context-dependent nature of token embeddings in such models results in h…

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…