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On-Policy Visual Evidence Distillation
Shaohang Wei, Feifan Song, Guangyue Peng +9
Visual agents solve problems by interleaving reasoning with image operations, and on-policy distillation (OPD) provides guidance from a strong teacher on student-generated interact…
Coalition-Aware Skill Reliability for Self-Evolving Agents
Qiyan Zhao, Xiaofeng Zhang, Bo Liu +11
Agent skills, structured artifacts distilled from interaction trajectories and dynamically reused from skill banks, have become a central mechanism for enabling large language mode…
Demystifying On-Policy Distillation: Roles, Pathologies, and Regulations
Rui Wang, Hongru Wang, Yi Chen +4
On-policy distillation (OPD) has become a key paradigm in LLM post-training, yet its training dynamics remain poorly understood. We present a systematic study examining the role, p…
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…
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…
Can LLMs Guide Their Own Exploration? Gradient-Guided Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning
Zhenwen Liang, Sidi Lu, Wenhao Yu +4
Reinforcement learning has become essential for strengthening the reasoning abilities of large language models, yet current exploration mechanisms remain fundamentally misaligned w…
Guided Self-Evolving LLMs with Minimal Human Supervision
Wenhao Yu, Zhenwen Liang, Chengsong Huang +4
AI self-evolution has long been envisioned as a path toward superintelligence, where models autonomously acquire, refine, and internalize knowledge from their own learning experien…
Understanding and Enhancing Mamba-Transformer Hybrids for Memory Recall and Language Modeling
Hyunji Lee, Wenhao Yu, Hongming Zhang +4
Hybrid models that combine state space models (SSMs) with attention mechanisms have shown strong performance by leveraging the efficiency of SSMs and the high recall ability of att…
Don't Throw Away Your Pretrained Model
Shangbin Feng, Wenhao Yu, Yike Wang +3
Alignment training has tradeoffs: it helps language models (LMs) gain in reasoning and instruction following but might lose out on skills such as creativity and calibration, where…
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…
Retrieval-augmented GUI Agents with Generative Guidelines
Ran Xu, Kaixin Ma, Wenhao Yu +4
GUI agents powered by vision-language models (VLMs) show promise in automating complex digital tasks. However, their effectiveness in real-world applications is often limited by sc…
Parallel-R1: Towards Parallel Thinking via Reinforcement Learning
Tong Zheng, Hongming Zhang, Wenhao Yu +7
Parallel thinking has emerged as a novel approach for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by exploring multiple reasoning paths concurrently. Howev…
Evolving Language Models without Labels: Majority Drives Selection, Novelty Promotes Variation
Yujun Zhou, Zhenwen Liang, Haolin Liu +7
Large language models (LLMs) can improve through reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), but many settings lack reference answers or external verifiers. Label-free s…
Self-Rewarding Vision-Language Model via Reasoning Decomposition
Zongxia Li, Wenhao Yu, Chengsong Huang +8
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) often suffer from visual hallucinations: generating things that are not consistent with visual inputs and language shortcuts, where they skip the visu…
R-Zero: Self-Evolving Reasoning LLM from Zero Data
Chengsong Huang, Wenhao Yu, Xiaoyang Wang +6
Self-evolving Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a scalable path toward super-intelligence by autonomously generating, refining, and learning from their own experiences. However, e…
VScan: Rethinking Visual Token Reduction for Efficient Large Vision-Language Models
Ce Zhang, Kaixin Ma, Tianqing Fang +5
Recent Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have advanced multi-modal understanding by incorporating finer-grained visual perception and encoding. However, such methods incur signi…
WebEvolver: Enhancing Web Agent Self-Improvement with Coevolving World Model
Tianqing Fang, Hongming Zhang, Zhisong Zhang +4
Agent self-improvement, where the backbone Large Language Model (LLM) of the agent are trained on trajectories sampled autonomously based on their own policies, has emerged as a pr…
WebRollback: Enhancing Web Agents with Explicit Rollback Mechanisms
Zhisong Zhang, Tianqing Fang, Kaixin Ma +4
With recent advancements in large language models, web agents have been greatly improved. However, dealing with complex and dynamic web environments requires more advanced planning…
OpenCharacter: Training Customizable Role-Playing LLMs with Large-Scale Synthetic Personas
Xiaoyang Wang, Hongming Zhang, Tao Ge +3
Customizable role-playing in large language models (LLMs), also known as character generalization, is gaining increasing attention for its versatility and cost-efficiency in develo…
Do Retrieval-Augmented Language Models Adapt to Varying User Needs?
Peilin Wu, Xinlu Zhang, Wenhao Yu +3
Recent advancements in Retrieval-Augmented Language Models (RALMs) have demonstrated their efficacy in knowledge-intensive tasks. However, existing evaluation benchmarks often assu…
OpenWebVoyager: Building Multimodal Web Agents via Iterative Real-World Exploration, Feedback and Optimization
Hongliang He, Wenlin Yao, Kaixin Ma +5
The rapid development of large language and multimodal models has sparked significant interest in using proprietary models, such as GPT-4o, to develop autonomous agents capable of…
RepoGraph: Enhancing AI Software Engineering with Repository-level Code Graph
Siru Ouyang, Wenhao Yu, Kaixin Ma +6
Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in code generation yet struggle with modern AI software engineering tasks. Unlike traditional function-level or file-level coding tasks, AI softw…
Leopard: A Vision Language Model For Text-Rich Multi-Image Tasks
Mengzhao Jia, Wenhao Yu, Kaixin Ma +6
Text-rich images, where text serves as the central visual element guiding the overall understanding, are prevalent in real-world applications, such as presentation slides, scanned…
Cognitive Kernel: An Open-source Agent System towards Generalist Autopilots
Hongming Zhang, Xiaoman Pan, Hongwei Wang +3
We introduce Cognitive Kernel, an open-source agent system towards the goal of generalist autopilots. Unlike copilot systems, which primarily rely on users to provide essential sta…