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most citedChain of Preference Optimization: Improving Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMs

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cs.LG2026

Rethinking the Trust Region in LLM Reinforcement Learning

Penghui Qi, Xiangxin Zhou, Zichen Liu +4

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a cornerstone for fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs), with Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) serving as the de facto standard algorith…

cs.LG2025

Defeating the Training-Inference Mismatch via FP16

Penghui Qi, Zichen Liu, Xiangxin Zhou +4

Reinforcement learning (RL) fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) often suffers from instability due to the numerical mismatch between the training and inference policies. Wh…

cs.LG2025

Nonparametric Data Attribution for Diffusion Models

Yutian Zhao, Chao Du, Xiaosen Zheng +2

Data attribution for generative models seeks to quantify the influence of individual training examples on model outputs. Existing methods for diffusion models typically require acc…

cs.LG2025

Continual Reinforcement Learning by Planning with Online World Models

Zichen Liu, Guoji Fu, Chao Du +2

Continual reinforcement learning (CRL) refers to a naturalistic setting where an agent needs to endlessly evolve, by trial and error, to solve multiple tasks that are presented seq…

cs.LG2025

Reinforcing General Reasoning without Verifiers

Xiangxin Zhou, Zichen Liu, Anya Sims +6

The recent paradigm shift towards training large language models (LLMs) using DeepSeek-R1-Zero-style reinforcement learning (RL) on verifiable rewards has led to impressive advance…

cs.LG2025

Optimizing Anytime Reasoning via Budget Relative Policy Optimization

Penghui Qi, Zichen Liu, Tianyu Pang +3

Scaling test-time compute is crucial for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). Existing approaches typically employ reinforcement learning (RL) to m…

cs.LG2025★ 6 cited

Understanding R1-Zero-Like Training: A Critical Perspective

Zichen Liu, Changyu Chen, Wenjun Li +5

DeepSeek-R1-Zero has shown that reinforcement learning (RL) at scale can directly enhance the reasoning capabilities of LLMs without supervised fine-tuning. In this work, we critic…

cs.LG2024

Sample-Efficient Alignment for LLMs

Zichen Liu, Changyu Chen, Chao Du +2

We study methods for efficiently aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences given budgeted online feedback. We first formulate the LLM alignment problem in the fr…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Improved Techniques for Optimization-Based Jailbreaking on Large Language Models

Xiaojun Jia, Tianyu Pang, Chao Du +5

Large language models (LLMs) are being rapidly developed, and a key component of their widespread deployment is their safety-related alignment. Many red-teaming efforts aim to jail…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Graph Diffusion Policy Optimization

Yijing Liu, Chao Du, Tianyu Pang +3

Recent research has made significant progress in optimizing diffusion models for downstream objectives, which is an important pursuit in fields such as graph generation for drug de…

cs.LG2024

Benchmarking Large Multimodal Models against Common Corruptions

Jiawei Zhang, Tianyu Pang, Chao Du +3

This technical report aims to fill a deficiency in the assessment of large multimodal models (LMMs) by specifically examining the self-consistency of their outputs when subjected t…

cs.LG2024

Locality Sensitive Sparse Encoding for Learning World Models Online

Zichen Liu, Chao Du, Wee Sun Lee +1

Acquiring an accurate world model online for model-based reinforcement learning (MBRL) is challenging due to data nonstationarity, which typically causes catastrophic forgetting fo…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Finetuning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Fairness

Xudong Shen, Chao Du, Tianyu Pang +3

The rapid adoption of text-to-image diffusion models in society underscores an urgent need to address their biases. Without interventions, these biases could propagate a skewed wor…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Intriguing Properties of Data Attribution on Diffusion Models

Xiaosen Zheng, Tianyu Pang, Chao Du +2

Data attribution seeks to trace model outputs back to training data. With the recent development of diffusion models, data attribution has become a desired module to properly assig…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

On Memorization in Diffusion Models

Xiangming Gu, Chao Du, Tianyu Pang +3

Due to their capacity to generate novel and high-quality samples, diffusion models have attracted significant research interest in recent years. Notably, the typical training objec…