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cs.AI2026

Failure Is the Mother of Success: Recovering Supervision with Grounding Hindsight

Sheldon Yu, Tong Yu, Nikki Lijing Kuang +6

When every rollout for a problem fails, GRPO receives neither a successful exemplar nor a nonzero group-relative advantage, so it learns nothing from exactly the problems it most n…

cs.IR2026

SafeGEO: Understanding Generative Engine Optimization Risks in Recommendation Agents

Qianfeng Wen, Yifan Simon Liu, Xin Liu +4

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) lets content owners rewrite web content to increase their visibility in generative systems. In recommendation agents, this creates a risk that…

cs.CL2026

RankJudge: A Multi-Turn LLM-as-a-Judge Synthetic Benchmark Generator

Zhenwei Tang, Zhaoyan Liu, Rasa Hosseinzadeh +3

As interactive LLM-based applications are created and refined, model developers need to evaluate the quality of generated text along many possible axes. For simpler systems, human…

cs.LG2026

Chessformer: A Unified Architecture for Chess Modeling

Daniel Monroe, George Eilender, Philip Chalmers +2

Chess has long served as a canonical testbed for artificial intelligence, but modeling approaches for its central tasks have diverged. Maximizing playing strength, predicting human…

cs.LG2026

MINER: Mining Multimodal Internal Representation for Efficient Retrieval

Weien Li, Rui Song, Zeyu Li +8

Visual document retrieval has become essential for accessing information in visually rich documents. Existing approaches fall into two camps. Late-interaction retrievers achieve st…

cs.AI2026

LLM Safety From Within: Detecting Harmful Content with Internal Representations

Difan Jiao, Yilun Liu, Ye Yuan +4

Guard models are widely used to detect harmful content in user prompts and LLM responses. However, state-of-the-art guard models rely solely on terminal-layer representations and o…

cs.LG2026

Generate, Filter, Control, Replay: A Comprehensive Survey of Rollout Strategies for LLM Reinforcement Learning

Rohan Surana, Gagan Mundada, Xunyi Jiang +19

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a central post-training tool for improving the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs). In these systems, the rollout, the trajec…

cs.AI2026

ThinkTwice: Jointly Optimizing Large Language Models for Reasoning and Self-Refinement

Difan Jiao, Qianfeng Wen, Blair Yang +2

We introduce ThinkTwice, a simple two-phase framework that jointly optimizes LLMs to solve reasoning problems and refine the answers, based on Group Relative Policy Optimization (G…

cs.AI2026

Grounded Chess Reasoning in Language Models via Master Distillation

Zhenwei Tang, Qianfeng Wen, Seth Grief-Albert +4

Language models often lack grounded reasoning capabilities in specialized domains where training data is scarce but bespoke systems excel. We introduce a general framework for dist…

cs.CL2026

MineDraft: A Framework for Batch Parallel Speculative Decoding

Zhenwei Tang, Arun Verma, Zijian Zhou +4

Speculative decoding (SD) accelerates large language model inference by using a smaller draft model to propose draft tokens that are subsequently verified by a larger target model.…

cs.LG2026

Level Up: Defining and Exploiting Transitional Problems for Curriculum Learning

Amogh Inamdar, Zhenwei Tang, Ashton Anderson +1

Curriculum learning--ordering training examples in a sequence to aid machine learning--takes inspiration from human learning, but has not gained widespread acceptance. Static strat…