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most citedGenPRM: Scaling Test-Time Compute of Process Reward Models via Generative Reasoning

2 citations · 8 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.LG2026

Reformulate LLM Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Training under Black-box Discrepancy

Jiashun Liu, Runze Liu, Xu Wan +3

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has emerged as a pivotal post-training paradigm, yet it frequently suffers from unpredictable sub-optimum performance or even training collapses. Recent…

cs.LG2026

When RL Fails after SFT: Rejuvenating Model Plasticity for Robust SFT-to-RL Handoff

Runze Liu, Jiashun Liu, Xu Wan +2

Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) followed by Reinforcement Learning (RL) has become a standard pipeline for Large Language Model (LLM) post-training. SFT is expected to provide a usefu…

cs.LG2026

Local Guidance, Global Impact: Gaussian-Reshaped Trust Region Unlocks Behavior Transitions

Bingxu Liu, Jiashun Liu, Johan Obando-Ceron +5

While Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) demonstrates strong performance in stationary settings, we show that its standard optimization paradigm struggles in continual and non-stat…

cs.LG2026

Temporal Difference Learning with Constrained Initial Representations

Jiafei Lyu, Jingwen Yang, Zhongjian Qiao +5

Recently, there have been numerous attempts to enhance the sample efficiency of off-policy reinforcement learning (RL) agents when interacting with the environment, including archi…

cs.LG2025

PROF: An LLM-based Reward Code Preference Optimization Framework for Offline Imitation Learning

Shengjie Sun, Jiafei Lyu, Runze Liu +4

Offline imitation learning (offline IL) enables training effective policies without requiring explicit reward annotations. Recent approaches attempt to estimate rewards for unlabel…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

A Survey of Reinforcement Learning for Large Reasoning Models

Kaiyan Zhang, Yuxin Zuo, Bingxiang He +36

In this paper, we survey recent advances in Reinforcement Learning (RL) for reasoning with Large Language Models (LLMs). RL has achieved remarkable success in advancing the frontie…

cs.CL2025

When Importance Sampling Misallocates Credit: Asymmetric Ratios for Outcome-Supervised RL

Jiakang Wang, Runze Liu, Qingpeng Cai +7

Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown great promise in large language models (LLMs) post-training, which typically rely on token-level clipping to maintain stability during optimiz…

cs.LG2025

Attention as a Compass: Efficient Exploration for Process-Supervised RL in Reasoning Models

Runze Liu, Jiakang Wang, Yuling Shi +11

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown remarkable success in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). Process-Supervised RL (PSRL) has emerged as a more…

cs.CL2025

ReviewRL: Towards Automated Scientific Review with RL

Sihang Zeng, Kai Tian, Kaiyan Zhang +9

Peer review is essential for scientific progress but faces growing challenges due to increasing submission volumes and reviewer fatigue. Existing automated review approaches strugg…

cs.CL2025

Stabilizing Knowledge, Promoting Reasoning: Dual-Token Constraints for RLVR

Jiakang Wang, Runze Liu, Fuzheng Zhang +3

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has become an effective post-training method for improving the reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, e…

cs.LG2025

Bohdi: Heterogeneous LLM Fusion with Automatic Data Exploration

Junqi Gao, Zhichang Guo, Dazhi Zhang +5

Heterogeneous Large Language Model (LLM) fusion integrates the strengths of multiple source LLMs with different architectures into a target LLM with low computational overhead. Whi…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

GenPRM: Scaling Test-Time Compute of Process Reward Models via Generative Reasoning

Jian Zhao, Runze Liu, Kaiyan Zhang +8

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown that it is promising to utilize Process Reward Models (PRMs) as verifiers to enhance the performance of LLMs. However…

cs.LG2025

VLP: Vision-Language Preference Learning for Embodied Manipulation

Runze Liu, Chenjia Bai, Jiafei Lyu +3

Reward engineering is one of the key challenges in Reinforcement Learning (RL). Preference-based RL effectively addresses this issue by learning from human feedback. However, it is…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

Can 1B LLM Surpass 405B LLM? Rethinking Compute-Optimal Test-Time Scaling

Runze Liu, Junqi Gao, Jian Zhao +5

Test-Time Scaling (TTS) is an important method for improving the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) by using additional computation during the inference phase. However, cu…

cs.LG2024

RAT: Adversarial Attacks on Deep Reinforcement Agents for Targeted Behaviors

Fengshuo Bai, Runze Liu, Yali Du +2

Evaluating deep reinforcement learning (DRL) agents against targeted behavior attacks is critical for assessing their robustness. These attacks aim to manipulate the victim into sp…

cs.LG2024

A Large Language Model-Driven Reward Design Framework via Dynamic Feedback for Reinforcement Learning

Shengjie Sun, Runze Liu, Jiafei Lyu +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown significant potential in designing reward functions for Reinforcement Learning (RL) tasks. However, obtaining high-quality reward code often…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

SEABO: A Simple Search-Based Method for Offline Imitation Learning

Jiafei Lyu, Xiaoteng Ma, Le Wan +3

Offline reinforcement learning (RL) has attracted much attention due to its ability in learning from static offline datasets and eliminating the need of interacting with the enviro…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

PEARL: Zero-shot Cross-task Preference Alignment and Robust Reward Learning for Robotic Manipulation

Runze Liu, Yali Du, Fengshuo Bai +2

In preference-based Reinforcement Learning (RL), obtaining a large number of preference labels are both time-consuming and costly. Furthermore, the queried human preferences cannot…