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most citedReassessing the Role of Supervised Fine-Tuning: An Empirical Study in VLM Reasoning

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cs.CL2026

UniPolicy: Unified Objective-Specific Policies for Generative Search Advertising

Kun Yao, Yuhang Zhou, Yichi Zhang +6

Search advertising connects user intent with commercial content and plays a critical role in platform monetization. Recent systems typically align pretrained generative models with…

cs.LG2026

DRIVE: Distributional and Retrieval-Augmented Bidding with Value Evaluation

Miduo Cui, Haochen Wang, Shangqin Mao +6

Auto-bidding is a core component of real-time advertising systems, where decisions must optimize long-term performance under budget and cost constraints, while online exploration i…

cs.GT2026

HMAF: A Hierarchical Multi-Slot GD-RTB Allocation Framework

Tianxing Bu, Zhaoqi Zhang, Linyou Cai +7

In modern online advertising platforms, Guaranteed Delivery (GD) contracts coexist and bid with Real-Time Bidding (RTB) auctions. Recent approaches either decouple GD and RTB optim…

cs.LG2026

Beyond Single Slot: Joint Optimization for Multi-Slot Guaranteed Display Advertising

Zhaoqi Zhang, Jiaming Deng, Miao Xie +5

Guaranteed display advertising is crucial for platform monetization, yet existing methods often operate under a single-slot assumption, limiting their ability to optimize allocatio…

cs.LG2026

Understanding and Mitigating Spurious Signal Amplification in Test-Time Reinforcement Learning for Math Reasoning

Yongcan Yu, Lingxiao He, Jian Liang +5

Test-time reinforcement learning (TTRL) always adapts models at inference time via pseudo-labeling, leaving it vulnerable to spurious optimization signals from label noise. Through…

cs.CL2026

How to Train Your Deep Research Agent? Prompt, Reward, and Policy Optimization in Search-R1

Yinuo Xu, Shuo Lu, Jianjie Cheng +5

Deep Research agents tackle knowledge-intensive tasks through multi-round retrieval and decision-oriented generation. While reinforcement learning (RL) has been shown to improve pe…

cs.AI2026

Do MLLMs Really Understand Space? A Mathematical Reasoning Evaluation

Shuo Lu, Jianjie Cheng, Yinuo Xu +16

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved strong performance on perception-oriented tasks, yet their ability to perform mathematical spatial reasoning, defined as the…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Reassessing the Role of Supervised Fine-Tuning: An Empirical Study in VLM Reasoning

Yongcan Yu, Lingxiao He, Shuo Lu +10

Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) reasoning have been largely attributed to the rise of reinforcement Learning (RL), which has shifted the community's focus away fro…

cs.IR2025

RIA: A Ranking-Infused Approach for Optimized listwise CTR Prediction

Guoxiao Zhang, Tan Qu, Ao Li +3

Reranking improves recommendation quality by modeling item interactions. However, existing methods often decouple ranking and reranking, leading to weak listwise evaluation models…

cs.IR2025

FITRep: Attention-Guided Item Representation via MLLMs

Guoxiao Zhang, Ao Li, Tan Qu +2

Online platforms usually suffer from user experience degradation due to near-duplicate items with similar visuals and text. While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) enable mu…

cs.CL2025

AI-Salesman: Towards Reliable Large Language Model Driven Telemarketing

Qingyu Zhang, Chunlei Xin, Xuanang Chen +7

Goal-driven persuasive dialogue, exemplified by applications like telemarketing, requires sophisticated multi-turn planning and strict factual faithfulness, which remains a signifi…

cs.LG2025

Generative Large-Scale Pre-trained Models for Automated Ad Bidding Optimization

Yu Lei, Jiayang Zhao, Yilei Zhao +4

Modern auto-bidding systems are required to balance overall performance with diverse advertiser goals and real-world constraints, reflecting the dynamic and evolving needs of the i…

cs.GT2025

Deterministic-Allocation and Anonymous Joint Advertising in E-commerce Platforms

Zhen Zhang, Luowen Liu, Wanzhi Zhang +5

With the advancement of machine learning, an increasing number of studies are employing automated mechanism design (AMD) methods for optimal auction design. However, all previous A…

cs.AI2024

Hierarchical Multi-agent Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Cross-channel Bidding

Shenghong He, Chao Yu

Real-time bidding (RTB) plays a pivotal role in online advertising ecosystems. Advertisers employ strategic bidding to optimize their advertising impact while adhering to various f…

cs.LG2024

Off-Policy Primal-Dual Safe Reinforcement Learning

Zifan Wu, Bo Tang, Qian Lin +5

Primal-dual safe RL methods commonly perform iterations between the primal update of the policy and the dual update of the Lagrange Multiplier. Such a training paradigm is highly s…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

HiBid: A Cross-Channel Constrained Bidding System with Budget Allocation by Hierarchical Offline Deep Reinforcement Learning

Hao Wang, Bo Tang, Chi Harold Liu +7

Online display advertising platforms service numerous advertisers by providing real-time bidding (RTB) for the scale of billions of ad requests every day. The bidding strategy hand…