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cs.LG2026

On-Policy Parameter Update Direction Underlies Generalization in LLM Post-Training

Shufan Shen, Zhongni Hou, Junshu Sun +5

The strong generalization performance of on-policy post-training paradigms has motivated studies of their parameter update behaviors. However, these studies treat the observed beha…

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TGRL: Temperature-Grouped Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Exploration in LLMs

Zihan Lin, Xiaohan Wang, Jie Cao +4

Efficient exploration often remains a central bottleneck in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR). Although temperature control and test-time scaling strategies can…

cs.LG2026

One Step, One Lead: Mitigating Higher-Order Interference in Multi-Domain Reinforcement Learning via Cross-Step Control

Zihan Lin, Xiaohan Wang, Jie Cao +4

Reinforcement learning (RL) across multiple domains can broaden the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), yet joint training often degrades individual-domain perf…

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Toward Plasticity-Preserving KL Regularization for Capability Retention in LLM Reinforcement Learning

Li Wang, Xiaodong Lu, Xiaohan Wang +4

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a central paradigm for large language model (LLM) post-training, but optimization toward new objectives can degrade capabilities already pres…

cs.LG2026

Joint Training of Multi-Token Prediction in Reinforcement Learning via Optimal Coefficient Calibration

Zili Wang, Jiajun Chai, Lin Chen +3

Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as the standard paradigm for improving reasoning capability of large language models, while Multi-Token Prediction…

cs.LG2026

When Self-Belief Misleads: Active Label Acquisition for Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

Li Wang, Xiaodong Lu, Xiaohan Wang +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable advancements in reasoning capabilities empowered by Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR). Nonetheless, RLVR i…

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-Play: Multi-Agent Self-Play via Privileged Self-Distillation without External Data

Yaocheng Zhang, Yuanheng Zhu, Wenyue Chong +7

Deep search agents have emerged as a promising paradigm for addressing complex information-seeking tasks, but their training remains challenging due to sparse rewards, weak credit…

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ResRL: Boosting LLM Reasoning via Negative Sample Projection Residual Reinforcement Learning

Zihan Lin, Xiaohan Wang, Jie Cao +6

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) enhances reasoning of Large Language Models (LLMs) but usually exhibits limited generation diversity due to the over-incentivi…

cs.LG2026

Policy Improvement Reinforcement Learning

Huaiyang Wang, Xiaojie Li, Xiaohan Wang +10

Reinforcement learning has become a central post-training paradigm for improving LLM and agent capabilities. Yet existing RL post-training methods share a common blind spot: they c…

cs.LG2026★ 1 cited

Contextual Rollout Bandits for Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

Xiaodong Lu, Xiaohan Wang, Jiajun Chai +7

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) is an effective paradigm for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models. However, existing RLVR methods uti…

cs.LG2026★ 1 cited

Your Group-Relative Advantage Is Biased

Fengkai Yang, Zherui Chen, Xiaohan Wang +10

Reinforcement Learning from Verifier Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a widely used approach for post-training large language models on reasoning tasks, with group-based methods such…

cs.LG2025

RLFactory: A Plug-and-Play Reinforcement Learning Post-Training Framework for LLM Multi-Turn Tool-Use

Jiajun Chai, Guojun Yin, Zekun Xu +9

Large language models excel at basic reasoning but struggle with tasks that require interaction with external tools. We present RLFactory, a plug-and-play reinforcement learning po…

cs.LG2025

RLAE: Reinforcement Learning-Assisted Ensemble for LLMs

Yuqian Fu, Yuanheng Zhu, Jiajun Chai +4

Ensembling large language models (LLMs) can effectively combine diverse strengths of different models, offering a promising approach to enhance performance across various tasks. Ho…

cs.LG2025

PolarQuant: Leveraging Polar Transformation for Efficient Key Cache Quantization and Decoding Acceleration

Songhao Wu, Ang Lv, Xiao Feng +5

The KV cache in large language models is a dominant factor in memory usage, limiting their broader applicability. Quantizing the cache to lower bit widths is an effective way to re…