collaborators

8 papers

cs.LG2026

VIMPO: Value-Implicit Policy Optimization for LLMs

Zhewei Kang, Aosong Feng, Sergey Levine +2

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards has become a central tool for improving the reasoning ability of large language models, but current methods face a trade-off between…

cs.CL2026

An Empirical Study of Automating Agent Evaluation

Kang Zhou, Sangmin Woo, Haibo Ding +14

Agent evaluation requires assessing complex multi-step behaviors involving tool use and intermediate reasoning, making it costly and expertise-intensive. A natural question arises:…

cs.CL2026

Omanic: Towards Step-wise Evaluation of Multi-hop Reasoning in Large Language Models

Xiaojie Gu, Sherry T. Tong, Aosong Feng +8

Evaluating the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs) solely from final answers can obscure failures in intermediate steps, especially in multi-hop QA benchmarks witho…

cs.LG2026

Reasoning through Verifiable Forecast Actions: Consistency-Grounded RL for Financial LLMs

Jialin Chen, Aosong Feng, Harshit Verma +7

Financial markets are characterized by extreme non-stationarity, low signal-to-noise ratios, and strong dependence on external information such as news, company fundamentals, and m…

cs.LG2026

Learning to Reason without External Rewards

Xuandong Zhao, Zhewei Kang, Aosong Feng +2

Training large language models (LLMs) for complex reasoning via Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) is effective but limited by reliance on costly, domain-specifi…

cs.LG2026

Prism: Efficient Test-Time Scaling via Hierarchical Search and Self-Verification for Discrete Diffusion Language Models

Jinbin Bai, Yixuan Li, Yuchen Zhu +8

Inference-time compute has re-emerged as a practical way to improve LLM reasoning. Most test-time scaling (TTS) algorithms rely on autoregressive decoding, which is ill-suited to d…