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5 papers

cs.CL2025

LaSeR: Reinforcement Learning with Last-Token Self-Rewarding

Wenkai Yang, Weijie Liu, Ruobing Xie +4

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has recently emerged as a core paradigm for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). To address t…

cs.LG2025

On Weak-to-Strong Generalization and f-Divergence

Wei Yao, Gengze Xu, Huayi Tang +4

Weak-to-strong generalization (W2SG) has emerged as a promising paradigm for stimulating the capabilities of strong pre-trained models by leveraging supervision from weaker supervi…

cs.CL2025

Learning to Focus: Causal Attention Distillation via Gradient-Guided Token Pruning

Yiju Guo, Wenkai Yang, Zexu Sun +3

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant improvements in contextual understanding. However, their ability to attend to truly critical information during long-cont…

cs.LG2025

Revisiting Weak-to-Strong Generalization in Theory and Practice: Reverse KL vs. Forward KL

Wei Yao, Wenkai Yang, Ziqiao Wang +2

As large language models advance toward superhuman performance, ensuring their alignment with human values and abilities grows increasingly complex. Weak-to-strong generalization o…

cs.LG2025

The Capabilities and Limitations of Weak-to-Strong Generalization: Generalization and Calibration

Wei Yao, Wenkai Yang, Gengze Xu +3

Weak-to-strong generalization, where weakly supervised strong models outperform their weaker teachers, offers a promising approach to aligning superhuman models with human values.…