most citedA Survey of Reinforcement Learning for Large Reasoning Models

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cs.LG2026

LatentLoop: Scaling Looped MoE Models with Asymmetric Compute Allocation

Zefeng He, Yunkai Chai, Xiaoyang Chen +5

Looped Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models combine parameter reuse with sparse computation to improve performance under matched budgets. Prior work demonstrates that different loop vis…

cs.AI2026

LIBERO-Industry: Benchmarking Robotic Manipulation under Industrial Process Constraints

Ming Shin Cindy Sung, Duan Leijiahao, Haoxiang Wang +9

Industrial manipulation in flexible manufacturing, e.g., high-mix, low-volume (HMLV) electronics assembly, requires robot policies to adapt to changing products and production cond…

cs.CL2026

SimpleOPD: Simple Tokenizer-Agnostic On-Policy Distillation for Long-Context Reasoning

Haonan He, Haodi Lei, Yun Luo +13

On-policy distillation (OPD) offers a promising way to transfer reasoning capabilities from stronger teacher models, but applying it to long-context reasoning teachers and short-co…

cs.AI2026

EvoPolicyGym: Evaluating Autonomous Policy Evolution in Interactive Environments

Zhilin Wang, Han Song, Runzhe Zhan +13

Autonomous agents are increasingly expected to improve executable policies through feedback, yet existing evaluations often collapse this process into a final score or confound it…

cs.AI2026

ComBench: A Benchmark for Rigorous Proof Reasoning and Constructive Realization in Olympiad-Level Combinatorics

Shunkai Zhang, Haoran Zhang, Yun Luo +15

Combinatorics is central to Olympiad-level mathematical problem solving, requiring deep discrete reasoning, creative constructions, and rigorous structural insight. Recent evidence…

cs.CL2026

Draft-OPD: On-Policy Distillation for Speculative Draft Models

Haodi Lei, Yafu Li, Haoran Zhang +8

Speculative decoding accelerates large language model inference by pairing a target model with a lightweight draft model whose proposed tokens are verified in parallel. A common wa…

cs.AI2026

-Bench: Evaluating Proactive Personal Assistant Agents in Long-Horizon Workflows

Haoran Zhang, Luxin Xu, Zhilin Wang +11

The rise of personal assistant agents, e.g., OpenClaw, highlights the growing potential of large language models to support users across everyday life and work. A core challenge in…

cs.AI2026

Achieving Gold-Medal-Level Olympiad Reasoning via Simple and Unified Scaling

Yafu Li, Runzhe Zhan, Haoran Zhang +25

Recent progress in reasoning models has substantially advanced long-horizon mathematical and scientific problem solving, with several systems now reaching gold-medal-level performa…

cs.CV2026

Persistent Visual Memory: Sustaining Perception for Deep Generation in LVLMs

Siyuan Huang, Xiaoye Qu, Yafu Li +6

While autoregressive Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) demonstrate remarkable proficiency in multimodal tasks, they face a "Visual Signal Dilution" phenomenon, where the accumul…

cs.AI2026

Rethinking Generalization in Reasoning SFT: A Conditional Analysis on Optimization, Data, and Model Capability

Qihan Ren, Peng Wang, Ruikun Cai +8

A prevailing narrative in LLM post-training holds that supervised finetuning (SFT) memorizes while reinforcement learning (RL) generalizes. We revisit this claim for reasoning SFT…

cs.CV2026

GEMS: Agent-Native Multimodal Generation with Memory and Skills

Zefeng He, Siyuan Huang, Xiaoye Qu +4

Recent multimodal generation models have achieved remarkable progress on general-purpose generation tasks, yet continue to struggle with complex instructions and specialized downst…

cs.CL2026

LatentMem: Customizing Latent Memory for Multi-Agent Systems

Muxin Fu, Xiangyuan Xue, Yafu Li +5

Large language model (LLM)-powered multi-agent systems (MAS) demonstrate remarkable collective intelligence, wherein multi-agent memory serves as a pivotal mechanism for continual…

cs.CL2026

From Conflict to Consensus: Boosting Medical Reasoning via Multi-Round Agentic RAG

Wenhao Wu, Zhentao Tang, Yafu Li +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit high reasoning capacity in medical question-answering, but their tendency to produce hallucinations and outdated knowledge poses critical risks…

cs.CL2026

FaithRL: Learning to Reason Faithfully through Step-Level Faithfulness Maximization

Runquan Gui, Yafu Li, Xiaoye Qu +3

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has markedly improved the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) on tasks requiring multi-step reasoning. However, most R…

cs.CL2026

New Skills or Sharper Primitives? A Probabilistic Perspective on the Emergence of Reasoning in RLVR

Zhilin Wang, Yafu Li, Shunkai Zhang +4

Whether Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) endows Large Language Models (LLMs) with new capabilities or merely elicits latent traces remains a central debate. In…

cs.CL2026

Characterizing, Evaluating, and Optimizing Complex Reasoning

Haoran Zhang, Yafu Li, Zhi Wang +4

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) increasingly rely on reasoning traces with complex internal structures. However, existing work lacks a unified answer to three fundamental questions:…

cs.CV2025

DiffThinker: Towards Generative Multimodal Reasoning with Diffusion Models

Zefeng He, Xiaoye Qu, Yafu Li +3

While recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have attained significant strides in multimodal reasoning, their reasoning processes remain predominantly text-centric, leadin…

cs.CV2025

VideoSSR: Video Self-Supervised Reinforcement Learning

Zefeng He, Xiaoye Qu, Yafu Li +3

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has substantially advanced the video understanding capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, the rapi…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

A Survey of Reinforcement Learning for Large Reasoning Models

Kaiyan Zhang, Yuxin Zuo, Bingxiang He +36

In this paper, we survey recent advances in Reinforcement Learning (RL) for reasoning with Large Language Models (LLMs). RL has achieved remarkable success in advancing the frontie…

cs.CV2025

Spotlight on Token Perception for Multimodal Reinforcement Learning

Siyuan Huang, Xiaoye Qu, Yafu Li +4

While Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has advanced the reasoning capabilities of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), most existing methods in multimodal rea…

cs.LG2025

ExGRPO: Learning to Reason from Experience

Runzhe Zhan, Yafu Li, Zhi Wang +5

Reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) is an emerging paradigm for improving the reasoning ability of large language models. However, standard on-policy training dis…

cs.CV2025

FrameThinker: Learning to Think with Long Videos via Multi-Turn Frame Spotlighting

Zefeng He, Xiaoye Qu, Yafu Li +3

While Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved substantial progress in video understanding, their application to long video reasoning is hindered by uniform frame samplin…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Rethinking Entropy Regularization in Large Reasoning Models

Yuxian Jiang, Yafu Li, Guanxu Chen +3

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has shown great promise in enhancing the reasoning abilities of large reasoning models (LRMs). However, it suffers from a crit…

cs.AI2025

Conditional Advantage Estimation for Reinforcement Learning in Large Reasoning Models

Guanxu Chen, Yafu Li, Yuxian Jiang +6

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) for large language models (LLMs) has achieved remarkable progress in enhancing LLMs' reasoning capabilities on tasks with clea…