4 papers
Beyond the Black Box: Demystifying Multi-Turn LLM Reasoning with VISTA
Yiran Zhang, Mingyang Lin, Mark Dras +1
Recent research has increasingly focused on the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in multi-turn interactions, as these scenarios more closely mirror real-world…
PHORECAST: Enabling AI Understanding of Public Health Outreach Across Populations
Rifaa Qadri, Anh Nhat Nhu, Swati Ramnath +6
Understanding how diverse individuals and communities respond to persuasive messaging holds significant potential for advancing personalized and socially aware machine learning. Wh…
Model Steering: Learning with a Reference Model Improves Generalization Bounds and Scaling Laws
Xiyuan Wei, Ming Lin, Fanjiang Ye +4
This paper formalizes an emerging learning paradigm that uses a trained model as a reference to guide and enhance the training of a target model through strategic data selection or…
DisCO: Reinforcing Large Reasoning Models with Discriminative Constrained Optimization
Gang Li, Ming Lin, Tomer Galanti +2
The recent success and openness of DeepSeek-R1 have brought widespread attention to Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) as a reinforcement learning method for large reasoning…