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most citedIs DPO Superior to PPO for LLM Alignment? A Comprehensive Study

8 citations · 11 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.AI2026

Parason: Revealing Subtask and Trial Parallelism in LLM Reasoning

Zhengyang Zhang, Zijian Zhang, Jiaxuan Gao +4

Scaling test-time reasoning has substantially improved the problem-solving ability of large language models (LLMs), but standard autoregressive decoding still executes long reasoni…

cs.DC2026

Next-Generation Agentic Reinforcement Learning Systems Enable Self-Evolving Agents

Ran Yan, Wei Fu, Jiale Li +21

LLM agents are rapidly being deployed in production, including coding assistants, customer-support chatbots, and scientific research assistants, yet they remain fundamentally stati…

cs.LG2026

Building Multi-Task Agentic LLMs via Two-Phase Distillation

Huaijie Wang, Shusheng Xu, Yi Wu +1

A key step toward artificial general intelligence is to train models that can perform multiple tasks. In this paper, we study how to build such models by first training separate RL…

cs.AI2026

MAGE: Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Language Agents toward Strategic Exploration and Exploitation

Lu Yang, Zelai Xu, Minyang Xie +4

Large Language Model (LLM) agents have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in learned tasks, yet they often struggle to adapt to non-stationary environments with feedback. While In…

cs.LG2026

AREAL-DTA: Dynamic Tree Attention for Efficient Reinforcement Learning of Large Language Models

Jiarui Zhang, Yuchen Yang, Ran Yan +8

Reinforcement learning (RL)-based post-training for large language models (LLMs) is computationally expensive, as it generates many rollout sequences that frequently share long tok…

cs.AI2026

From Self-Evolving Synthetic Data to Verifiable-Reward RL: Post-Training Multi-turn Interactive Tool-Using Agents

Jiaxuan Gao, Jiaao Chen, Chuyi He +3

Interactive tool-using agents must solve real-world tasks via multi-turn interaction with both humans and external environments, requiring dialogue state tracking, multi-step tool…

cs.CL2025

Principled RL for Diffusion LLMs Emerges from a Sequence-Level Perspective

Jingyang Ou, Jiaqi Han, Minkai Xu +5

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has proven highly effective for autoregressive language models, but adapting these methods to diffusion large language models (dLLMs) presents fundament…

cs.DC2025

AReaL-Hex: Accommodating Asynchronous RL Training over Heterogeneous GPUs

Ran Yan, Youhe Jiang, Tianyuan Wu +7

Maximizing training throughput and cost-efficiency of RL for LLMs is essential to democratize this advanced technique. One promising but challenging approach is to deploy such a co…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Beyond Ten Turns: Unlocking Long-Horizon Agentic Search with Large-Scale Asynchronous RL

Jiaxuan Gao, Wei Fu, Minyang Xie +5

Recent advancements in LLM-based agents have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in handling complex, knowledge-intensive tasks by integrating external tools. Among diverse choice…

cs.CL2025

QuestA: Expanding Reasoning Capacity in LLMs via Question Augmentation

Jiazheng Li, Hongzhou Lin, Hong Lu +5

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a central paradigm for training large language models (LLMs) in reasoning tasks. Yet recent studies question RL's ability to incentivize…

cs.CL2025

How Far Are We from Optimal Reasoning Efficiency?

Jiaxuan Gao, Shu Yan, Qixin Tan +6

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) demonstrate remarkable problem-solving capabilities through extended Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning but often produce excessively verbose and redund…

cs.LG2025

AReaL: A Large-Scale Asynchronous Reinforcement Learning System for Language Reasoning

Wei Fu, Jiaxuan Gao, Xujie Shen +10

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a dominant paradigm for training large language models (LLMs), particularly for reasoning tasks. Effective RL for LLMs requires massive paral…

cs.LG2025

Technologies on Effectiveness and Efficiency: A Survey of State Spaces Models

Xingtai Lv, Youbang Sun, Kaiyan Zhang +8

State Space Models (SSMs) have emerged as a promising alternative to the popular transformer-based models and have been increasingly gaining attention. Compared to transformers, SS…

cs.LG2024

On Designing Effective RL Reward at Training Time for LLM Reasoning

Jiaxuan Gao, Shusheng Xu, Wenjie Ye +6

Reward models have been increasingly critical for improving the reasoning capability of LLMs. Existing research has shown that a well-trained reward model can substantially improve…

cs.DC2024★ 2 cited

ReaL: Efficient RLHF Training of Large Language Models with Parameter Reallocation

Zhiyu Mei, Wei Fu, Kaiwei Li +3

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is a pivotal technique for empowering large language model (LLM) applications. Compared with the supervised training process of LL…

cs.CL2024★ 8 cited

Is DPO Superior to PPO for LLM Alignment? A Comprehensive Study

Shusheng Xu, Wei Fu, Jiaxuan Gao +6

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is currently the most widely used method to align large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. Existing RLHF methods can b…

cs.RO2023

Learning Agile Bipedal Motions on a Quadrupedal Robot

Yunfei Li, Jinhan Li, Wei Fu +1

Can a quadrupedal robot perform bipedal motions like humans? Although developing human-like behaviors is more often studied on costly bipedal robot platforms, we present a solution…

cs.LG2023

Iteratively Learn Diverse Strategies with State Distance Information

Wei Fu, Weihua Du, Jingwei Li +3

In complex reinforcement learning (RL) problems, policies with similar rewards may have substantially different behaviors. It remains a fundamental challenge to optimize rewards wh…