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cs.LG2026

Scaling Laws for Collapse in Asynchronous GRPO

Jingwei Song, Haofeng Xu, Jie Xiao +10

Asynchronous reinforcement learning improves the throughput of large language model post-training by decoupling rollout generation from policy optimization, but introduces a mismat…

cs.LG2026

The Mirage of Optimizing Training Policies: Monotonic Inference Policies as the Real Objective for LLM Reinforcement Learning

Jing Liang, Hongyao Tang, Yi Ma +9

Reinforcement learning (RL) has gained growing attention in large language model (LLM) post-training, yet RL training remains fragile and can suffer from instability or collapse. O…

cs.LG2026

How Does Reasoning Flow? Tracing Attention-Induced Information Flow for Targeted RL in LLMs

Zhichen Dong, Yang Li, Yuhan Sun +9

Token-level credit assignment remains a key obstacle for reinforcement learning (RL) in large language models (LLMs), where RL recipes typically treat all tokens equally, failing t…

cs.DC2026

ROSE: Rollout On Serving GPUs via Cooperative Elasticity for Agentic RL

Wei Gao, Yuheng Zhao, Dilxat Muhtar +13

Agentic reinforcement learning (RL) is reshaping LLM post-training, but end-to-end training time is dominated by compute-intensive, multi-turn rollouts whose resource demand varies…

cs.LG2026

Complementary RL: Towards Efficient Experience-Driven Agent Learning

Dilxat Muhtar, Jiashun Liu, Wei Gao +8

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for training LLM-based agents, yet remains limited by low sample efficiency, stemming not only from sparse outcome fe…

cs.CL2026

CE-RM: A Pointwise Generative Reward Model Optimized via Two-Stage Rollout and Unified Criteria

Xinyu Hu, Yancheng He, Weixun Wang +6

Automatic evaluation is crucial yet challenging for open-ended natural language generation, especially when rule-based metrics are infeasible. Compared with traditional methods, th…

cs.AI2026

ShopSimulator: Evaluating and Exploring RL-Driven LLM Agent for Shopping Assistants

Pei Wang, Yanan Wu, Xiaoshuai Song +13

Large language model (LLM)-based agents are increasingly deployed in e-commerce shopping. To perform thorough, user-tailored product searches, agents should interpret personal pref…

cs.LG2026

One Sample to Rule Them All: Extreme Data Efficiency in Multidiscipline Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning

Yiyuan Li, Zhen Huang, Yanan Wu +6

The reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs) can be unleashed with reinforcement learning (RL) (OpenAI, 2024; DeepSeek-AI et al., 2025a; Zeng et al., 2025). The success of…

cs.CV2025

Reasoning Palette: Modulating Reasoning via Latent Contextualization for Controllable Exploration for (V)LMs

Rujiao Long, Yang Li, Xingyao Zhang +7

Exploration capacity shapes both inference-time performance and reinforcement learning (RL) training for large (vision-) language models, as stochastic sampling often yields redund…

cs.AI2025

Let It Flow: Agentic Crafting on Rock and Roll, Building the ROME Model within an Open Agentic Learning Ecosystem

Weixun Wang, XiaoXiao Xu, Wanhe An +86

Agentic crafting requires LLMs to operate in real-world environments over multiple turns by taking actions, observing outcomes, and iteratively refining artifacts. Despite its impo…

cs.DC2025

RollArt: Disaggregated Multi-Task Agentic RL Training at Scale

Wei Gao, Yuheng Zhao, Tianyuan Wu +15

Agentic Reinforcement Learning (RL) trains LLMs through multi-turn interactions with environments, producing workloads that mix compute-bound prefill, bandwidth-bound decoding, CPU…

cs.LG2025

Asymmetric Proximal Policy Optimization: mini-critics boost LLM reasoning

Jiashun Liu, Johan Obando-Ceron, Han Lu +7

Most recent RL for LLMs (RL4LLM) methods avoid explicit critics, replacing them with average advantage baselines. This shift is largely pragmatic: conventional value functions are…

cs.LG2025

Part II: ROLL Flash -- Accelerating RLVR and Agentic Training with Asynchrony

Han Lu, Zichen Liu, Shaopan Xiong +19

Synchronous Reinforcement Learning (RL) post-training has emerged as a crucial step for enhancing Large Language Models (LLMs) with diverse capabilities. However, many systems desi…

cs.CL2025

Attention Illuminates LLM Reasoning: The Preplan-and-Anchor Rhythm Enables Fine-Grained Policy Optimization

Yang Li, Zhichen Dong, Yuhan Sun +9

The reasoning pattern of Large language models (LLMs) remains opaque, and reinforcement learning (RL) typically applies uniform credit across an entire generation, blurring the dis…

cs.DC2025

RollPacker: Mitigating Long-Tail Rollouts for Fast, Synchronous RL Post-Training

Wei Gao, Yuheng Zhao, Dakai An +11

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is a pivotal post-training technique for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, synchronous RL post-training oft…

cs.LG2025

Part I: Tricks or Traps? A Deep Dive into RL for LLM Reasoning

Zihe Liu, Jiashun Liu, Yancheng He +13

Reinforcement learning for LLM reasoning has rapidly emerged as a prominent research area, marked by a significant surge in related studies on both algorithmic innovations and prac…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Reinforcement Learning Optimization for Large-Scale Learning: An Efficient and User-Friendly Scaling Library

Weixun Wang, Shaopan Xiong, Gengru Chen +38

We introduce ROLL, an efficient, scalable, and user-friendly library designed for Reinforcement Learning Optimization for Large-scale Learning. ROLL caters to three primary user gr…

cs.CR2025

USB: A Comprehensive and Unified Safety Evaluation Benchmark for Multimodal Large Language Models

Baolin Zheng, Guanlin Chen, Hongqiong Zhong +12

Despite their remarkable achievements and widespread adoption, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have revealed significant security vulnerabilities, highlighting the urgent…

cs.AI2025

Beyond Safe Answers: A Benchmark for Evaluating True Risk Awareness in Large Reasoning Models

Baihui Zheng, Boren Zheng, Kerui Cao +9

Despite the remarkable proficiency of \textit{Large Reasoning Models} (LRMs) in handling complex reasoning tasks, their reliability in safety-critical scenarios remains uncertain.…

cs.CL2025

Think-J: Learning to Think for Generative LLM-as-a-Judge

Hui Huang, Yancheng He, Hongli Zhou +5

LLM-as-a-Judge refers to the automatic modeling of preferences for responses generated by Large Language Models (LLMs), which is of significant importance for both LLM evaluation a…

cs.CL2025

Can Large Language Models Detect Errors in Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning?

Yancheng He, Shilong Li, Jiaheng Liu +8

Recently, o1-like models have drawn significant attention, where these models produce the long Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning steps to improve the reasoning abilities of existing…

cs.AI2025

Deconstructing Long Chain-of-Thought: A Structured Reasoning Optimization Framework for Long CoT Distillation

Yijia Luo, Yulin Song, Xingyao Zhang +5

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capabilities through long chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning. The R1 distillation scheme ha…

cs.CL2025

CodeCriticBench: A Holistic Code Critique Benchmark for Large Language Models

Alexander Zhang, Marcus Dong, Jiaheng Liu +15

The critique capacity of Large Language Models (LLMs) is essential for reasoning abilities, which can provide necessary suggestions (e.g., detailed analysis and constructive feedba…

cs.CL2025

ProgCo: Program Helps Self-Correction of Large Language Models

Xiaoshuai Song, Yanan Wu, Weixun Wang +3

Self-Correction aims to enable large language models (LLMs) to self-verify and self-refine their initial responses without external feedback. However, LLMs often fail to effectivel…