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cs.AI2026

Test-Time Coverage: Test-Conditioned Data Curation for Deployment-Aware Learning

Nadine Chang, Maying Shen, Shizhe Diao +6

Deployed AI systems are often trained from broad candidate data pools, necessitating data curation towards the deployment test distribution. However, standard data curation methods…

cs.AI2026

From Modalities to Propositions: A Language-Centric Framework for Multimodal Intelligence

Nadine Chang, Maying Shen, Shizhe Diao +6

We propose a language representation for multimodal data in which any observation, whether image, video, or text, is expressed as a bag of atomic propositions, simple statements ab…

cs.CL2026

Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion: A Tri-Mode Language Model Unifying Autoregressive, Diffusion, and Self-Speculation Decoding

Yonggan Fu, Lexington Whalen, Abhinav Garg +23

We introduce Nemotron-Labs-Diffusion, a tri-mode language model (LM) that unifies AR, diffusion, and self-speculation decoding within a single architecture. Trained with a joint AR…

cs.LG2026

Diffusion-Proof: Recipe for Formal Theorem Proving Beyond Auto-Regressive Generation

Ruida Wang, Rui Pan, Pengcheng Wang +2

Enhancing the formal math reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) has become a key focus in both mathematical and computer science communities in recent years. While…

cs.AI2026

AutoLab: Can Frontier Models Solve Long-Horizon Auto Research and Engineering Tasks?

Zhangchen Xu, Junda Chen, Yue Huang +16

Scientific and engineering progress is fundamentally a long-horizon iterative process: proposing changes, running experiments, measuring outcomes, and continuously refining artifac…

cs.CL2026

Zone of Proximal Policy Optimization: Teacher in Prompts, Not Gradients

Byung-Kwan Lee, Ximing Lu, Shizhe Diao +8

Knowledge distillation transfers a teacher's competence to a small student but is brittle in the small-student regime: forcing the student to imitate logits from a much larger teac…

cs.CL2026

Agent Explorative Policy Optimization for Multimodal Agentic Reasoning

Minki Kang, Shizhe Diao, Ryo Hachiuma +4

Vision-language models with extended reasoning succeed on complex problems, but many real-world problems require external tools that internal reasoning alone often cannot resolve.…

cs.DC2026

Polar: Agentic RL on Any Harness at Scale

Binfeng Xu, Hao Zhang, Shaokun Zhang +9

Reinforcement learning for language agents increasingly depends on custom harnesses that manage long-running context, multi-turn tool use and multi-agent orchestration. However, po…

cs.AI2026

ProRL Agent: Rollout-as-a-Service for RL Training of Multi-Turn LLM Agents

Hao Zhang, Mingjie Liu, Shaokun Zhang +10

Multi-turn LLM agents are increasingly important for solving complex, interactive tasks, and reinforcement learning (RL) is a key ingredient for improving their long-horizon behavi…

cs.CL2026

Progressive Residual Warmup for Language Model Pretraining

Tianhao Chen, Xin Xu, Lu Yin +4

Transformer architectures serve as the backbone for most modern Large Language Models, therefore their pretraining stability and convergence speed are of central concern. Motivated…

cs.AI2026

Golden Goose: A Simple Trick to Synthesize Unlimited RLVR Tasks from Unverifiable Internet Text

Ximing Lu, David Acuna, Jaehun Jung +12

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has become a cornerstone for unlocking complex reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs). Yet, scaling up RL is bottlenecked b…

cs.CL2026

GDPO: Group reward-Decoupled Normalization Policy Optimization for Multi-reward RL Optimization

Shih-Yang Liu, Xin Dong, Ximing Lu +10

As language models become increasingly capable, users expect them to provide not only accurate responses but also behaviors aligned with diverse human preferences across a variety…

cs.SD2026

Speech-Hands: A Self-Reflection Voice Agentic Approach to Speech Recognition and Audio Reasoning with Omni Perception

Zhen Wan, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Jinchuan Tian +15

We introduce a voice-agentic framework that learns one critical omni-understanding skill: knowing when to trust itself versus when to consult external audio perception. Our work is…