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11 papers

cs.CL2026

Negative Self-Distillation: Learning to Reason by Avoiding Flaws

Rongcan Pei, Zhepei Wei, Shuyao Xu +3

On-Policy Self-Distillation (OPSD) has emerged as a popular paradigm for large language model (LLM) self-improvement, allowing models to act as their own teachers by leveraging pri…

cs.CL2026

WebRISE: Requirement-Induced State Evaluation for MLLM-Generated Web Artifacts

Yuxin Meng, Yuhan Suo, Junjie Wang +9

Existing benchmarks for MLLM-generated web artifacts assess interaction through local evidence and miss the requirement-induced states and transitions that determine whether a page…

cs.LG2026

You Only Need Minimal RLVR Training: Extrapolating LLMs via Rank-1 Trajectories

Zhepei Wei, Xinyu Zhu, Wei-Lin Chen +3

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a dominant paradigm for improving reasoning in large language models (LLMs), yet the underlying geometry of the res…

cs.CV2026

Video-Zero: Self-Evolution Video Understanding

Ruixu Zhang, Deyi Ji, Lanyun Zhu +4

Self-evolution offers a promising path for improving reasoning models without relying on intensive human annotation. However, extending this paradigm to video understanding remains…

cs.LG2026

G-Zero: Self-Play for Open-Ended Generation from Zero Data

Chengsong Huang, Haolin Liu, Tong Zheng +7

Self-evolving LLMs excel in verifiable domains but struggle in open-ended tasks, where reliance on proxy LLM judges introduces capability bottlenecks and reward hacking. To overcom…

cs.AI2026

A Survey of Reasoning in Autonomous Driving Systems: Open Challenges and Emerging Paradigms

Kejin Yu, Yuhan Sun, Taiqiang Wu +5

The development of high-level autonomous driving (AD) is shifting from perception-centric limitations to a more fundamental bottleneck, namely, a deficit in robust and generalizabl…

cs.CL2026

CHIMERA: Compact Synthetic Data for Generalizable LLM Reasoning

Xinyu Zhu, Yihao Feng, Yanchao Sun +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable reasoning capabilities, largely enabled by supervised fine-tuning (SFT)- and reinforcement learning (RL)-based post-training…

cs.CL2025

AdaSearch: Balancing Parametric Knowledge and Search in Large Language Models via Reinforcement Learning

Tzu-Han Lin, Wei-Lin Chen, Chen-An Li +3

Equipping large language models (LLMs) with search engines via reinforcement learning (RL) promises effective search agents. However, adaptively balancing internal parametric knowl…

cs.CL2025

Aligning Large Language Models via Fully Self-Synthetic Data

Shangjian Yin, Zhepei Wei, Xinyu Zhu +2

Traditional reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) for large language models (LLMs) relies on expensive human-annotated datasets, while Reinforcement Learning from AI Fe…

cs.AI2025

Beyond Outcome Reward: Decoupling Search and Answering Improves LLM Agents

Yiding Wang, Zhepei Wei, Xinyu Zhu +1

Enabling large language models (LLMs) to utilize search tools offers a promising path to overcoming fundamental limitations such as knowledge cutoffs and hallucinations. Recent wor…

cs.CL2025

TruthRL: Incentivizing Truthful LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

Zhepei Wei, Xiao Yang, Kai Sun +12

While large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance on factoid question answering, they are still prone to hallucination and untruthful responses, particularly…