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most citedAsking Before Acting: Gather Information in Embodied Decision Making with Language Models

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cs.LG2025

Learning to Reason as Action Abstractions with Scalable Mid-Training RL

Shenao Zhang, Donghan Yu, Yihao Feng +4

Large language models excel with reinforcement learning (RL), but fully unlocking this potential requires a mid-training stage. An effective mid-training phase should identify a co…

cs.LG2025

Beyond Markovian: Reflective Exploration via Bayes-Adaptive RL for LLM Reasoning

Shenao Zhang, Yaqing Wang, Yinxiao Liu +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) trained via Reinforcement Learning (RL) have exhibited strong reasoning capabilities and emergent reflective behaviors, such as rethinking and error co…

cs.LG2025

BRiTE: Bootstrapping Reinforced Thinking Process to Enhance Language Model Reasoning

Han Zhong, Yutong Yin, Shenao Zhang +10

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in complex reasoning tasks, yet generating reliable reasoning processes remains a significant challenge. We p…

cs.AI2024

Hindsight Planner: A Closed-Loop Few-Shot Planner for Embodied Instruction Following

Yuxiao Yang, Shenao Zhang, Zhihan Liu +2

This work focuses on building a task planner for Embodied Instruction Following (EIF) using Large Language Models (LLMs). Previous works typically train a planner to imitate expert…

cs.SE2024

DSTC: Direct Preference Learning with Only Self-Generated Tests and Code to Improve Code LMs

Zhihan Liu, Shenao Zhang, Yongfei Liu +3

Direct preference learning offers a promising and computation-efficient beyond supervised fine-tuning (SFT) for improving code generation in coding large language models (LMs). How…

cs.LG2024

Reward-Augmented Data Enhances Direct Preference Alignment of LLMs

Shenao Zhang, Zhihan Liu, Boyi Liu +6

Preference alignment in Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly improved their ability to adhere to human instructions and intentions. However, existing direct alignment alg…

cs.LG2024

Self-Exploring Language Models: Active Preference Elicitation for Online Alignment

Shenao Zhang, Donghan Yu, Hiteshi Sharma +6

Preference optimization, particularly through Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), has achieved significant success in aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) to adhere…

cs.LG2024

Provably Mitigating Overoptimization in RLHF: Your SFT Loss is Implicitly an Adversarial Regularizer

Zhihan Liu, Miao Lu, Shenao Zhang +5

Aligning generative models with human preference via RLHF typically suffers from overoptimization, where an imperfectly learned reward model can misguide the generative model to ou…

cs.LG2024

How Can LLM Guide RL? A Value-Based Approach

Shenao Zhang, Sirui Zheng, Shuqi Ke +6

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become the de facto standard practice for sequential decision-making problems by improving future acting policies with feedback. However, RL algorit…

cs.LG2023

Model-Based Reparameterization Policy Gradient Methods: Theory and Practical Algorithms

Shenao Zhang, Boyi Liu, Zhaoran Wang +1

ReParameterization (RP) Policy Gradient Methods (PGMs) have been widely adopted for continuous control tasks in robotics and computer graphics. However, recent studies have reveale…

cs.AI2023★ 3 cited

Reason for Future, Act for Now: A Principled Framework for Autonomous LLM Agents with Provable Sample Efficiency

Zhihan Liu, Hao Hu, Shenao Zhang +4

Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate impressive reasoning abilities, but translating reasoning into actions in the real world remains challenging. In particular, it remains unc…

cs.LG2023

Maximize to Explore: One Objective Function Fusing Estimation, Planning, and Exploration

Zhihan Liu, Miao Lu, Wei Xiong +6

In online reinforcement learning (online RL), balancing exploration and exploitation is crucial for finding an optimal policy in a sample-efficient way. To achieve this, existing s…

cs.AI2023★ 3 cited

Asking Before Acting: Gather Information in Embodied Decision Making with Language Models

Xiaoyu Chen, Shenao Zhang, Pushi Zhang +2

With strong capabilities of reasoning and a broad understanding of the world, Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated immense potential in building versatile embodied decisi…

cs.LG2021★ 1 cited

Learning Meta Representations for Agents in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Shenao Zhang, Li Shen, Lei Han

In multi-agent reinforcement learning, the behaviors that agents learn in a single Markov Game (MG) are typically confined to the given agent number. Every single MG induced by var…