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most citedA Survey of Direct Preference Optimization

2 citations · 2 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.AI2026

Data World: Scaling Data Environments from Scratch

Zhanli Li, Zeyuan Xu, Chaoxu Pang +16

Data agents use code to process heterogeneous files and derive analytical insights. Scaling their training faces costly environment curation, privacy and intellectual-property rest…

cs.AI2026

Experience is the Best Teacher: Motivating Effective Exploration in Reinforcement Learning for LLMs

Wenjian Zhang, Kongcheng Zhang, Jiaxin Qi +2

Reinforcement Learning (RL) with rubric-based rewards has recently shown remarkable progress in enhancing general reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet still…

cs.AI2025

Replay Failures as Successes: Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Instruction Following

Kongcheng Zhang, Qi Yao, Shunyu Liu +7

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown promise for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) to follow instructions with various constraints. Despite the encouraging results, RL improve…

cs.CL2025

MUSE: MCTS-Driven Red Teaming Framework for Enhanced Multi-Turn Dialogue Safety in Large Language Models

Siyu Yan, Long Zeng, Xuecheng Wu +6

As large language models~(LLMs) become widely adopted, ensuring their alignment with human values is crucial to prevent jailbreaks where adversaries manipulate models to produce ha…

cs.LG2025

Breaking the Exploration Bottleneck: Rubric-Scaffolded Reinforcement Learning for General LLM Reasoning

Yang Zhou, Sunzhu Li, Shunyu Liu +11

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have underscored the potential of Reinforcement Learning (RL) to facilitate the emergence of reasoning capabilities. Despite the enc…

cs.AI2025

Consistent Paths Lead to Truth: Self-Rewarding Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning

Kongcheng Zhang, Qi Yao, Shunyu Liu +5

Recent advances of Reinforcement Learning (RL) have highlighted its potential in complex reasoning tasks, yet effective training often relies on external supervision, which limits…

cs.CL2025

SeRL: Self-Play Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models with Limited Data

Wenkai Fang, Shunyu Liu, Yang Zhou +5

Recent advances have demonstrated the effectiveness of Reinforcement Learning (RL) in improving the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, existing works…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

A Survey of Direct Preference Optimization

Shunyu Liu, Wenkai Fang, Zetian Hu +9

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated unprecedented generative capabilities, yet their alignment with human values remains critical for ensuring helpful and harmless deplo…

cs.AI2025

Reasoning with Reinforced Functional Token Tuning

Kongcheng Zhang, Qi Yao, Baisheng Lai +5

In this work, we propose Reinforced Functional Token Tuning (RFTT), a novel reinforced fine-tuning framework that empowers Large Language Models (LLMs) with self-play learn-to-reas…

cs.AI2024

Odyssey: Empowering Minecraft Agents with Open-World Skills

Shunyu Liu, Yaoru Li, Kongcheng Zhang +5

Recent studies have delved into constructing generalist agents for open-world environments like Minecraft. Despite the encouraging results, existing efforts mainly focus on solving…