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most citedAligning Large Language Models with Human Feedback: Mathematical Foundations and Algorithm Design

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cs.LG2026★ 2 cited

Aligning Large Language Models with Human Feedback: Mathematical Foundations and Algorithm Design

Siliang Zeng, Luca Viano, Chenliang Li +6

This article provides an introduction to the mathematical foundations and algorithmic frameworks used to align Large Language Models (LLMs) with human intentions, preferences, and…

cs.AI2026

Where Does Staleness Accumulate? Pool Aware Effective Staleness Control for Asynchronous RL in LLM Post-Training

Chenliang Li, Neiwen Ling, Zijun Wei +1

Fully asynchronous reinforcement learning (RL) improves resource utilization in large language model post-training by overlapping rollout generation with policy optimization, but i…

cs.LG2026

HiPER: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning with Explicit Credit Assignment for Large Language Model Agents

Jiangweizhi Peng, Yuanxin Liu, Ruida Zhou +4

Training LLMs as interactive agents for multi-turn decision-making remains challenging, particularly in long-horizon tasks with sparse and delayed rewards, where agents must execut…

cs.LG2025

Stabilizing Off-Policy Training for Long-Horizon LLM Agent via Turn-Level Importance Sampling and Clipping-Triggered Normalization

Chenliang Li, Adel Elmahdy, Alex Boyd +7

Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms such as PPO and GRPO are widely used to train large language models (LLMs) for multi-turn agentic tasks. However, in off-policy training pipe…

cs.LG2025

Do LLMs Recognize Your Latent Preferences? A Benchmark for Latent Information Discovery in Personalized Interaction

Ioannis Tsaknakis, Bingqing Song, Shuyu Gan +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at producing broadly relevant text, but this generality becomes a limitation when user-specific preferences are required, such as recommending re…

cs.LG2025

Aligning Frozen LLMs by Reinforcement Learning: An Iterative Reweight-then-Optimize Approach

Xinnan Zhang, Chenliang Li, Siliang Zeng +6

Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences usually requires fine-tuning methods such as RLHF and DPO. These methods directly optimize the model parameters, so the…

cs.LG2025

Reinforcing Multi-Turn Reasoning in LLM Agents via Fine-Grained Reward Structure and Credit Assignment

Quan Wei, Siliang Zeng, Chenliang Li +9

Reinforcement Learning (RL) approaches have been wildly used to enhance the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Model (LLM) agents in long-horizon, multi-turn scenarios. Such…

stat.ML2025

Understanding Inverse Reinforcement Learning under Overparameterization: Non-Asymptotic Analysis and Global Optimality

Ruijia Zhang, Siliang Zeng, Chenliang Li +2

The goal of the Inverse reinforcement learning (IRL) task is to identify the underlying reward function and the corresponding optimal policy from a set of expert demonstrations. Wh…

cs.AI2024

Learning Reward and Policy Jointly from Demonstration and Preference Improves Alignment

Chenliang Li, Siliang Zeng, Zeyi Liao +4

Aligning human preference and value is an important requirement for building contemporary foundation models and embodied AI. However, popular approaches such as reinforcement learn…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

Getting More Juice Out of the SFT Data: Reward Learning from Human Demonstration Improves SFT for LLM Alignment

Jiaxiang Li, Siliang Zeng, Hoi-To Wai +3

Aligning human preference and value is an important requirement for contemporary foundation models. State-of-the-art techniques such as Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (…