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cs.CL2025

RLVE: Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Language Models with Adaptive Verifiable Environments

Zhiyuan Zeng, Hamish Ivison, Yiping Wang +14

We introduce Reinforcement Learning (RL) with Adaptive Verifiable Environments (RLVE), an approach using verifiable environments that procedurally generate problems and provide alg…

cs.AI2025

From and to : LLMs Learn New Skills in RL by Composing Old Ones

Lifan Yuan, Weize Chen, Yuchen Zhang +7

Does RL teach LLMs genuinely new skills, or does it merely activate existing ones? This question lies at the core of ongoing debates about the role of RL in LLM post-training. On o…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

The Entropy Mechanism of Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning Language Models

Ganqu Cui, Yuchen Zhang, Jiacheng Chen +14

This paper aims to overcome a major obstacle in scaling RL for reasoning with LLMs, namely the collapse of policy entropy. Such phenomenon is consistently observed across vast RL r…

cs.LG2025

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Entropy Minimization in LLM Reasoning

Shivam Agarwal, Zimin Zhang, Lifan Yuan +2

Entropy minimization (EM) trains the model to concentrate even more probability mass on its most confident outputs. We show that this simple objective alone, without any labeled da…

cs.LG2025

Reinforcement Learning Finetunes Small Subnetworks in Large Language Models

Sagnik Mukherjee, Lifan Yuan, Dilek Hakkani-Tur +1

Reinforcement learning (RL) yields substantial improvements in large language models (LLMs) downstream task performance and alignment with human values. Surprisingly, such large ga…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

Process Reinforcement through Implicit Rewards

Ganqu Cui, Lifan Yuan, Zefan Wang +22

Dense process rewards have proven a more effective alternative to the sparse outcome-level rewards in the inference-time scaling of large language models (LLMs), particularly in ta…