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most citedTowards a Theoretical Understanding of Synthetic Data in LLM Post-Training: A Reverse-Bottleneck Perspective

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cs.AI2026

ReTerm: Recovery Training for Self-Improving Terminal Agents

Wei Xie, Kaituo Feng, Shiming Fu +3

Terminal agents have shown strong abilities in complex coding tasks. However, they often struggle to recover from errors during long-running execution (e.g., command errors, faulty…

cs.AI2026

Discovering Diverse Planning Policies for Multimodal Embodied Agents with Quality-Diversity Optimization

Pengfei Xu, Yong Liu, Xiaoya Nan +2

Multimodal embodied agents are increasingly required to solve long-horizon tasks by integrating visual observations, textual goals, and interaction history into closed-loop decisio…

cs.AI2026

Structure-Conditioned Actor-Critic Branches for Quality-Diversity Reinforcement Learning

Lianrong Zuo, Peilan Xu, Yong Liu +1

Quality-diversity reinforcement learning (QD-RL) aims to construct policy repertoires that contain both high-performing and behaviorally diverse policies. Existing QD-RL methods ma…

cs.CL2026

AsyncLane: Decoupling Refinement from Advancement in Diffusion Language Model Decoding

Yingxuan Ren, Yuxuan Lou, Yong Liu +4

Block-wise semi-autoregressive decoding is the standard inference paradigm for diffusion large language models (DLMs), but it imposes a strict dependency between blocks: the next b…

cs.AI2026

Statistical Priors for Implicit Preferences: Decoupling Skill Selection as a Local Harness in Personal Agents

Zeyu Gan, Huayi Tang, Yong Liu

As Large Language Model (LLM) capabilities advance, locally deployed personal agents relying on API-based remote models and external skills have emerged as a novel paradigm. With t…

cs.AI2026

Capabilities and Fundamental Limits of Latent Chain-of-Thought

Jiaxuan Zou, Yaozhong Xiong, Yong Liu

Latent Chain-of-Thought (Latent CoT) models promise efficient reasoning via continuous representations, yet exhibit puzzling performance inconsistencies: excelling at exploration (…

cs.CL2026

How Does Personalized Memory Shape LLM Behavior? Benchmarking Rational Preference Utilization in Personalized Assistants

Xueyang Feng, Weinan Gan, Xu Chen +2

Large language model (LLM)-powered assistants have recently integrated memory mechanisms that record user preferences, leading to more personalized and user-aligned responses. Howe…

cs.LG2026

Towards a Theoretical Understanding to the Generalization of RLHF

Zhaochun Li, Mingyang Yi, Yue Wang +2

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and its variants have emerged as the dominant approaches for aligning Large Language Models with human intent. While empirically e…

cs.AI2025

Why Does Reasoning Length Converge? Unveiling the Underfitting-Overfitting Trade-off in Chain-of-Thought

Zeyu Gan, Hao Yi, Yong Liu

Test-time scaling, primarily manifested through multi-step Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning via Reinforcement Learning (RL), has emerged as a pivotal paradigm for enhancing the rea…

cs.AI2025

Rethinking External Slow-Thinking: From Snowball Errors to Probability of Correct Reasoning

Zeyu Gan, Yun Liao, Yong Liu

Test-time scaling, which is also often referred to as slow-thinking, has been demonstrated to enhance multi-step reasoning in large language models (LLMs). However, despite its wid…

cs.AI2024★ 1 cited

Towards a Theoretical Understanding of Synthetic Data in LLM Post-Training: A Reverse-Bottleneck Perspective

Zeyu Gan, Yong Liu

Synthetic data has become a pivotal resource in post-training tasks for large language models (LLMs) due to the scarcity of high-quality, specific data. While various methods have…