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cs.LG2026

MS-TTRL: Breaking the Frequency Conflict in Multiple-Solution Test-Time Reinforcement Learning

Zhixia Zhang, Binqian Xu, Huaiyang Wang +2

Scientific, engineering, and mathematical reasoning tasks can admit multiple valid solutions, while exhaustive annotation of the full solution set is often prohibitively costly. Te…

cs.AI2026

Dual-Channel Robust Group-Relative Policy Optimization via Advantage and Sequence-Weight Estimation

Zhongyi Li, Wan Tian, Xiang Xu +4

Group-relative policy optimization relies on reward-derived advantages and sequence-level likelihood weights, both of which can be sensitive to localized outliers. Extreme rewards…

cs.LG2026

WDL-OPD: Weak-Driven On-Policy Distillation via Mixture-Constrained Co-Training

Zehao Chen, Gongxun Li, Tianxiang Ai +9

On-policy distillation (OPD) aligns a student with a teacher on trajectories sampled from the student itself, reducing the train-test state mismatch of offline distillation. The sa…

cs.LG2026

LLMODE: Aligning ODEs with LLMs via Gated Token Injection for Irregular Spatio-Temporal Forecasting

Di Zhang, Jingyang Zhang, Ziqian Wang +4

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise for spatio-temporal forecasting, but existing approaches often rely on regularly sampled token sequences and struggle with irregular…

cs.LG2026

SPOT: Sparse Probing and Outcome Calibration for On-Policy Distillation

Zikun Qu, Min Zhang, Mingze Kong +5

On-policy distillation (OPD) provides dense teacher supervision on student-generated trajectories, but standard reverse-KL training can assign insufficient probability to other pla…

cs.AI2026

Deferred Exposure of Future Trajectories for Verifiable Reasoning in Autonomous Driving VLMs

Zixuan Huang, Yang Zhou, Kaixuan Wang +7

Recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models for autonomous driving (AD) increasingly utilize chain-of-thought (CoT) supervision to enhance the reasoning capabilities of their Vision…

cs.CL2026

Multi-Objective Exploration and Preference Optimization via Mutual Information

Hongyan Xie, Yikun Ban, Ruiyu Fang +4

Aligning large language models with diverse and heterogeneous human values requires multi-objective alignment methods to effectively trade off conflicting preference dimensions. Cu…

cs.RO2026

Frequency-Aware Flow Matching for Continuous and Consistent Robotic Action Generation

Jianing Guo, Fangzheng Chen, Zihao Mao +12

Flow matching has emerged as a standard paradigm for robotic manipulation owing to its strong expressive power for modelling complex, multimodal action distributions, alongside sim…

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…

cs.LG2026

MasFACT: Continual Multi-Agent Topology Learning via Geometry-Aware Posterior Transfer

Xuefei Wang, Jialu Wang, Fengbo Zhang +6

Multi-agent systems (MAS) powered by large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm for complex problem solving, where performance critically depends on the under…

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.AI2026

Adaptive Robust Estimator for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Zhongyi Li, Wan Tian, Jingyu Chen +8

Multi-agent collaboration has emerged as a powerful paradigm for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models, yet it suffers from interaction-level ambiguity that…

cs.AI2026

CDRRM: Contrast-Driven Rubric Generation for Reliable and Interpretable Reward Modeling

Dengcan Liu, Fengkai Yang, Xiaohan Wang +7

Reward modeling is essential for aligning Large Language Models(LLMs) with human preferences, yet conventional reward models suffer from poor interpretability and heavy reliance on…

cs.AI2026

Counterfactual Credit Policy Optimization for Multi-Agent Collaboration

Zhongyi Li, Wan Tian, Jinju Chen +4

Collaborative multi-agent large language models (LLMs) can solve complex reasoning tasks by decomposing roles, but reinforcement learning for such systems is limited by credit assi…

cs.LG2026

Heterogeneous Agent Collaborative Reinforcement Learning

Zhixia Zhang, Zixuan Huang, Gongxun Li +10

We introduce Heterogeneous Agent Collaborative Reinforcement Learning (HACRL), a new Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Reward (RLVR) problem that addresses the inefficiencies…

cs.AI2026

Federated Reasoning Distillation Framework with Model Learnability-Aware Data Allocation

Wei Guo, Siyuan Lu, Xiangdong Ran +8

Data allocation plays a critical role in federated large language model (LLM) and small language models (SLMs) reasoning collaboration. Nevertheless, existing data allocation metho…

cs.CL2026

UniARM: Towards a Unified Autoregressive Reward Model for Multi-Objective Test-Time Alignment

Hongyan Xie, Yikun Ban, Ruiyu Fang +6

Multi-objective alignment aims to align LLM responses with multiple human preference objectives. Among existing methods, guiding the generation of frozen LLMs through autoregressiv…

cs.IR2026

UniFAR: A Unified Facet-Aware Retrieval Framework for Scientific Documents

Zheng Dou, Zhao Zhang, Deqing Wang +2

Scientific document retrieval (SDR) plays a critical role in modern scientific research, supporting knowledge discovery and evidence-based reasoning. It has evolved along two parad…

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.AI2026

Does Your Reasoning Model Implicitly Know When to Stop Thinking?

Zixuan Huang, Xin Xia, Yuxi Ren +11

Recent advancements in large reasoning models (LRMs) have greatly improved their capabilities on complex reasoning tasks through Long Chains of Thought (CoTs). However, this approa…

cs.AI2026

Weak-Driven Learning: How Weak Agents make Strong Agents Stronger

Zehao Chen, Gongxun Li, Tianxiang Ai +9

As post-training optimization becomes central to improving large language models, we observe a persistent saturation bottleneck: once models grow highly confident, further training…

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.AI2026

Real-Time Aligned Reward Model beyond Semantics

Zixuan Huang, Xin Xia, Yuxi Ren +10

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is a pivotal technique for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences, yet it is susceptible to reward overoptim…

cs.LG2025

LLMBoost: Make Large Language Models Stronger with Boosting

Zehao Chen, Tianxiang Ai, Yifei Li +11

Ensemble learning of LLMs has emerged as a promising alternative to enhance performance, but existing approaches typically treat models as black boxes, combining the inputs or fina…