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23 papers

cs.CL2026

Spectral-Driven Adaptive-Rank Optimizer for Large Language Model Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

Zhipeng Chen, Wayne Xin Zhao, Ji-Rong Wen

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is reshaping how large language models (LLMs) acquire reasoning capabilities, yet the optimizers used remain largely inherited…

cs.CL2026

PolyAlign: Conditional Human-Distribution Alignment

L. D. M. S. Sai Teja, Ufaq Khan, Sathira Silva +2

Post-training methods such as supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and preference optimization typically align language models toward a single global assistant behavior. While effective fo…

cs.LG2026

Low-rank Optimization Trajectories Modeling for LLM RLVR Acceleration

Zhipeng Chen, Tao Qian, Wayne Xin Zhao +1

Recently, scaling reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) for large language models (LLMs) has emerged as an effective training paradigm for significantly improving m…

cs.LG2026

Towards Effective Experiential Learning: Dual Guidance for Utilization and Internalization

Fei Bai, Zhipeng Chen, Chuan Hao +6

Recently, reinforcement learning~(RL) has become an important approach for improving the capabilities of large language models~(LLMs). In particular, reinforcement learning from ve…

cs.CL2026

ForesightKV: Optimizing KV Cache Eviction for Reasoning Models by Learning Long-Term Contribution

Zican Dong, Peiyu Liu, Junyi Li +4

Recently, large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable reasoning abilities by producing long reasoning traces. However, as the sequence length grows, the key-value (KV) cache…

cs.CL2026

Adaptive Ability Decomposing for Unlocking Large Reasoning Model Effective Reinforcement Learning

Zhipeng Chen, Xiaobo Qin, Wayne Xin Zhao +2

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has shown great potential to enhance the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs). However, due to the limited amount…

cs.CL2025

From Trial-and-Error to Improvement: A Systematic Analysis of LLM Exploration Mechanisms in RLVR

Jia Deng, Jie Chen, Zhipeng Chen +7

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). Unlike traditiona…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Pass@k Training for Adaptively Balancing Exploration and Exploitation of Large Reasoning Models

Zhipeng Chen, Xiaobo Qin, Youbin Wu +4

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), which typically adopts Pass@1 as the reward, has faced the issues in balancing exploration and exploitation, causing policies…

cs.CL2025

Decomposing the Entropy-Performance Exchange: The Missing Keys to Unlocking Effective Reinforcement Learning

Jia Deng, Jie Chen, Zhipeng Chen +2

Recently, reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has been widely used for enhancing the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). A core challenge in RLVR…

cs.CL2025

ICPC-Eval: Probing the Frontiers of LLM Reasoning with Competitive Programming Contests

Shiyi Xu, Yiwen Hu, Yingqian Min +3

With the significant progress of large reasoning models in complex coding and reasoning tasks, existing benchmarks, like LiveCodeBench and CodeElo, are insufficient to evaluate the…

cs.CL2025

Towards Effective Code-Integrated Reasoning

Fei Bai, Yingqian Min, Beichen Zhang +6

In this paper, we investigate code-integrated reasoning, where models generate code when necessary and integrate feedback by executing it through a code interpreter. To acquire thi…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

R1-Searcher++: Incentivizing the Dynamic Knowledge Acquisition of LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

Huatong Song, Jinhao Jiang, Wenqing Tian +7

Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful but prone to hallucinations due to static knowledge. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) helps by injecting external information, but cur…

cs.AI2025★ 7 cited

R1-Searcher: Incentivizing the Search Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

Huatong Song, Jinhao Jiang, Yingqian Min +5

Existing Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have shown the potential of reinforcement learning (RL) to enhance the complex reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models~(LLMs). While…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

An Empirical Study on Eliciting and Improving R1-like Reasoning Models

Zhipeng Chen, Yingqian Min, Beichen Zhang +10

In this report, we present the third technical report on the development of slow-thinking models as part of the STILL project. As the technical pathway becomes clearer, scaling RL…

cs.CL2025

Challenging the Boundaries of Reasoning: An Olympiad-Level Math Benchmark for Large Language Models

Haoxiang Sun, Yingqian Min, Zhipeng Chen +2

The rapid advancement of large reasoning models has saturated existing math benchmarks, underscoring the urgent need for more challenging evaluation frameworks. To address this, we…

cs.CL2024

Enhancing LLM Reasoning with Reward-guided Tree Search

Jinhao Jiang, Zhipeng Chen, Yingqian Min +12

Recently, test-time scaling has garnered significant attention from the research community, largely due to the substantial advancements of the o1 model released by OpenAI. By alloc…

cs.AI2024★ 2 cited

Imitate, Explore, and Self-Improve: A Reproduction Report on Slow-thinking Reasoning Systems

Yingqian Min, Zhipeng Chen, Jinhao Jiang +11

Recently, slow-thinking reasoning systems, such as o1, have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in solving complex reasoning tasks. These systems typically engage in an extended t…

cs.CL2024

Extracting and Combining Abilities For Building Multi-lingual Ability-enhanced Large Language Models

Zhipeng Chen, Kun Zhou, Liang Song +4

Multi-lingual ability transfer has become increasingly important for the broad application of large language models (LLMs). Existing work highly relies on training with the multi-l…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Towards Effective and Efficient Continual Pre-training of Large Language Models

Jie Chen, Zhipeng Chen, Jiapeng Wang +16

Continual pre-training (CPT) has been an important approach for adapting language models to specific domains or tasks. To make the CPT approach more traceable, this paper presents…

cs.CL2024

YuLan: An Open-source Large Language Model

Yutao Zhu, Kun Zhou, Kelong Mao +35

Large language models (LLMs) have become the foundation of many applications, leveraging their extensive capabilities in processing and understanding natural language. While many o…

cs.CL2024

Not Everything is All You Need: Toward Low-Redundant Optimization for Large Language Model Alignment

Zhipeng Chen, Kun Zhou, Wayne Xin Zhao +2

Large language models (LLMs) are still struggling in aligning with human preference in complex tasks and scenarios. They are prone to overfit into the unexpected patterns or superf…

cs.CL2024

Improving Large Language Models via Fine-grained Reinforcement Learning with Minimum Editing Constraint

Zhipeng Chen, Kun Zhou, Wayne Xin Zhao +4

Reinforcement learning (RL) has been widely used in training large language models (LLMs) for preventing unexpected outputs, eg reducing harmfulness and errors. However, existing R…

cs.CL2023★ 18 cited

Don't Make Your LLM an Evaluation Benchmark Cheater

Kun Zhou, Yutao Zhu, Zhipeng Chen +6

Large language models~(LLMs) have greatly advanced the frontiers of artificial intelligence, attaining remarkable improvement in model capacity. To assess the model performance, a…