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cs.CL2026

EviSD: Evidence-Conditioned Self-Distillation for Search-Augmented Agents

Jianan Xie, Xin Sun, Zhongqi Chen +4

Outcome-based reinforcement learning enables search-augmented language agents to learn from verifiable final answers, but its trajectory-level credit cannot distinguish the contrib…

cs.CL2026

HopRefusalBench: Diagnosing Refusal Failures in Search-Augmented Agents for Multi-Hop Reasoning

Jianan Xie, Xin Sun, Zhongqi Chen +3

Search-augmented large language model agents are increasingly capable of solving knowledge-intensive tasks, but their behavior when a multi-hop question is fundamentally unanswerab…

cs.LG2026

OPRD: On-Policy Representation Distillation

Shenzhi Yang, Guangcheng Zhu, Bowen Song +8

On-policy distillation (OPD) supervises the student exclusively in the output space by matching next-token distributions. This paradigm suffers from two limitations: (i) a high-var…

cs.LG2026

GeoMin: Data-Efficient Semi-Supervised RLVR via Geometric Distribution Modeling

Guangcheng Zhu, Shenzhi Yang, Haobo Wang +9

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) significantly advances LLM reasoning, yet it faces a dilemma: standard supervised scaling is throttled by high annotation cost…

cs.LG2026

Smart Picks in the Dark: Towards Efficient RLVR for Reasoning via Tracing Metacognitive Pivots

Guangcheng Zhu, Shenzhi Yang, Haobo Wang +7

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has greatly advanced large reasoning models (LRMs), but it requires timely training on a huge fully-annotated dataset. To this…

cs.CL2026

GAPD: Gold-Action Policy Distillation for Agentic Reinforcement Learning in Knowledge Base Question Answering

Xin Sun, Jianan Xie, Zhongqi Chen +6

Reinforcement learning (RL) is a natural fit for agentic knowledge base question answering (KBQA), where a model must issue executable actions, observe knowledge-base feedback, and…

cs.LG2026

Can LLMs Learn to Reason Robustly under Noisy Supervision?

Shenzhi Yang, Guangcheng Zhu, Bowen Song +7

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) effectively trains reasoning models that rely on abundant perfect labels, but its vulnerability to unavoidable noisy labels du…

cs.CV2026

Multimodal Adaptive Retrieval Augmented Generation through Internal Representation Learning

Ruoshuang Du, Xin Sun, Qiang Liu +4

Visual Question Answering systems face reliability issues due to hallucinations, where models generate answers misaligned with visual input or factual knowledge. While Retrieval Au…

cs.CL2026★ 1 cited

Predict the Retrieval! Test time adaptation for Retrieval Augmented Generation

Xin Sun, Zhongqi Chen, Qiang Liu +5

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a powerful approach for enhancing large language models' question-answering capabilities through the integration of external kno…

cs.LG2025

TraPO: A Semi-Supervised Reinforcement Learning Framework for Boosting LLM Reasoning

Shenzhi Yang, Guangcheng Zhu, Xing Zheng +7

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has proven effective in training large reasoning models (LRMs) by leveraging answer-verifiable signals to guide policy optimiz…

cs.CL2025

KBQA-R1: Reinforcing Large Language Models for Knowledge Base Question Answering

Xin Sun, Zhongqi Chen, Xing Zheng +6

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) challenges models to bridge the gap between natural language and strict knowledge graph schemas by generating executable logical forms. Whi…

cs.LG2025

ConfClip: Confidence-Weighted and Clipped Reward for Reinforcement Learning in LLMs

Bonan Zhang, Zhongqi Chen, Bowen Song +3

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a standard paradigm for refining large language models (LLMs) beyond pre-training and instruction tuning. A prominent line of work is RL with…

cs.CL2025

Divide-Then-Align: Honest Alignment based on the Knowledge Boundary of RAG

Xin Sun, Jianan Xie, Zhongqi Chen +7

Large language models (LLMs) augmented with retrieval systems have significantly advanced natural language processing tasks by integrating external knowledge sources, enabling more…