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cs.LG2026
Turn-PPO: Turn-Level Advantage Estimation with PPO for Improved Multi-Turn RL in Agentic LLMs
Junbo Li, Peng Zhou, Rui Meng +3
Reinforcement learning (RL) has re-emerged as a natural approach for training interactive LLM agents in real-world environments. However, directly applying the widely used Group Re…
cs.LG2025
PIPA: Preference Alignment as Prior-Informed Statistical Estimation
Junbo Li, Zhangyang Wang, Qiang Liu
Offline preference alignment for language models such as Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) is favored for its effectiveness and simplicity, eliminating the need for costly reinf…
cs.LG2025
HALoS: Hierarchical Asynchronous Local SGD over Slow Networks for Geo-Distributed Large Language Model Training
Geon-Woo Kim, Junbo Li, Shashidhar Gandham +5
Training large language models (LLMs) increasingly relies on geographically distributed accelerators, causing prohibitive communication costs across regions and uneven utilization…