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most citedThe Surprising Effectiveness of PPO in Cooperative, Multi-Agent Games

600 citations · 638 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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26 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.AI2026

Embodied Operators and Benchmarking: Toward Reusable and Deployable Embodied Intelligence Systems

Junwu Xiong, Jiaxuan Gao, Wei Chai +10

Embodied intelligence systems require not only end-to-end policy models, but also reusable functional modules that transform multimodal observations, robot states, human demonstrat…

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.RO2026

Building a Scalable, Reproducible, Evaluatable, and Closed-Loop Simulation Environment Foundation for Embodied Intelligence

Junwu Xiong, Yongjian Guo, Mingxi Luo +17

This paper presents a cloud-native simulation infrastructure framework for embodied intelligence that supports large-scale training, standardized evaluation, and simulation-based d…

cs.AI2026

Verifiable Process Rewards for Agentic Reasoning

Huining Yuan, Zelai Xu, Huaijie Wang +6

Reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) has improved the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), yet existing approaches predominantly rely on sparse…

cs.CV2026

Sword: Style-Robust World Models as Simulators via Dynamic Latent Bootstrapping for VLA Policy Post-Training

Jiaxuan Gao, Yongjian Guo, Zhong Guan +5

The integration of Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models with World Models has gained increasing attention. One representative approach treats learned World Models as generative simu…

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.LG2025

Extending Test-Time Scaling: A 3D Perspective with Context, Batch, and Turn

Chao Yu, Qixin Tan, Jiaxuan Gao +7

Reasoning reinforcement learning (RL) has recently revealed a new scaling effect: test-time scaling. Thinking models such as R1 and o1 improve their reasoning accuracy at test time…

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

Fine-tuning Diffusion Policies with Backpropagation Through Diffusion Timesteps

Ningyuan Yang, Jiaxuan Gao, Feng Gao +2

Diffusion policies, widely adopted in decision-making scenarios such as robotics, gaming and autonomous driving, are capable of learning diverse skills from demonstration data due…

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.AI2024

ICPL: Few-shot In-context Preference Learning via LLMs

Chao Yu, Qixin Tan, Hong Lu +5

Preference-based reinforcement learning is an effective way to handle tasks where rewards are hard to specify but can be exceedingly inefficient as preference learning is often tab…

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.AI2024★ 9 cited

LLM-Powered Hierarchical Language Agent for Real-time Human-AI Coordination

Jijia Liu, Chao Yu, Jiaxuan Gao +4

AI agents powered by Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant advances, enabling them to assist humans in diverse complex tasks and leading to a revolution in human-AI co…

cs.DC2023

SRL: Scaling Distributed Reinforcement Learning to Over Ten Thousand Cores

Zhiyu Mei, Wei Fu, Jiaxuan Gao +3

The ever-growing complexity of reinforcement learning (RL) tasks demands a distributed system to efficiently generate and process a massive amount of data. However, existing open-s…

cs.RO2023★ 3 cited

LAGOON: Language-Guided Motion Control

Shusheng Xu, Huaijie Wang, Jiaxuan Gao +3

We aim to control a robot to physically behave in the real world following any high-level language command like "cartwheel" or "kick". Although human motion datasets exist, this ta…

cs.AI2023★ 4 cited

Learning Zero-Shot Cooperation with Humans, Assuming Humans Are Biased

Chao Yu, Jiaxuan Gao, Weilin Liu +5

There is a recent trend of applying multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) to train an agent that can cooperate with humans in a zero-shot fashion without using any human data.…

cs.RO2023★ 11 cited

Asynchronous Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Real-Time Multi-Robot Cooperative Exploration

Chao Yu, Xinyi Yang, Jiaxuan Gao +8

We consider the problem of cooperative exploration where multiple robots need to cooperatively explore an unknown region as fast as possible. Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MA…