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most citedSecrets of RLHF in Large Language Models Part I: PPO

19 citations · 45 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CL2026

Enhancing Safety of Large Language Models via Embedding Space Separation

Xu Zhao, Xiting Wang, Weiran Shen

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved impressive capabilities, yet ensuring their safety against harmful prompts remains a critical challenge. Recent work has revealed that th…

cs.CL2025

Skywork-R1V3 Technical Report

Wei Shen, Jiangbo Pei, Yi Peng +8

We introduce Skywork-R1V3, an advanced, open-source vision-language model (VLM) that pioneers a new approach to visual reasoning. Its key innovation lies in effectively transferrin…

cs.CV2025

Skywork-VL Reward: An Effective Reward Model for Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning

Xiaokun Wang, Peiyu Wang, Jiangbo Pei +9

We propose Skywork-VL Reward, a multimodal reward model that provides reward signals for both multimodal understanding and reasoning tasks. Our technical approach comprises two key…

cs.LG2025

Skywork Open Reasoner 1 Technical Report

Jujie He, Jiacai Liu, Chris Yuhao Liu +14

The success of DeepSeek-R1 underscores the significant role of reinforcement learning (RL) in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). In this work, we…

cs.CL2025

A Comprehensive Survey of Reward Models: Taxonomy, Applications, Challenges, and Future

Jialun Zhong, Wei Shen, Yanzeng Li +7

Reward Model (RM) has demonstrated impressive potential for enhancing Large Language Models (LLM), as RM can serve as a proxy for human preferences, providing signals to guide LLMs…

cs.CV2025

Skywork R1V2: Multimodal Hybrid Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning

Peiyu Wang, Yichen Wei, Yi Peng +10

We present Skywork R1V2, a next-generation multimodal reasoning model and a major leap forward from its predecessor, Skywork R1V. At its core, R1V2 introduces a hybrid reinforcemen…

cs.LG2024

Boosting Deductive Reasoning with Step Signals In RLHF

Jialian Li, Yipin Zhang, Wei Shen +3

Logical reasoning is a crucial task for Large Language Models (LLMs), enabling them to tackle complex problems. Among reasoning tasks, multi-step reasoning poses a particular chall…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Beyond Scalar Reward Model: Learning Generative Judge from Preference Data

Ziyi Ye, Xiangsheng Li, Qiuchi Li +5

Learning from preference feedback is a common practice for aligning large language models~(LLMs) with human value. Conventionally, preference data is learned and encoded into a sca…

cs.CL2024

RMB: Comprehensively Benchmarking Reward Models in LLM Alignment

Enyu Zhou, Guodong Zheng, Binghai Wang +11

Reward models (RMs) guide the alignment of large language models (LLMs), steering them toward behaviors preferred by humans. Evaluating RMs is the key to better aligning LLMs. Howe…

cs.LG2024

Uncertainty-aware Reward Model: Teaching Reward Models to Know What is Unknown

Xingzhou Lou, Dong Yan, Wei Shen +3

Reward models (RMs) are essential for aligning large language models (LLM) with human expectations. However, existing RMs struggle to capture the stochastic and uncertain nature of…

cs.AI2024★ 2 cited

Training Large Language Models for Reasoning through Reverse Curriculum Reinforcement Learning

Zhiheng Xi, Wenxiang Chen, Boyang Hong +18

In this paper, we propose R: Learning Reasoning through Reverse Curriculum Reinforcement Learning (RL), a novel method that employs only outcome supervision to achieve the bene…

cs.CL2024

Improving Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback Using Contrastive Rewards

Wei Shen, Xiaoying Zhang, Yuanshun Yao +3

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) is the mainstream paradigm used to align large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. Yet existing RLHF heavily relies on…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Overcoming Reward Overoptimization via Adversarial Policy Optimization with Lightweight Uncertainty Estimation

Xiaoying Zhang, Jean-Francois Ton, Wei Shen +2

We introduce Adversarial Policy Optimization (AdvPO), a novel solution to the pervasive issue of reward over-optimization in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) for L…

cs.SE2024★ 3 cited

StepCoder: Improve Code Generation with Reinforcement Learning from Compiler Feedback

Shihan Dou, Yan Liu, Haoxiang Jia +14

The advancement of large language models (LLMs) has significantly propelled the field of code generation. Previous work integrated reinforcement learning (RL) with compiler feedbac…

cs.AI2024★ 8 cited

Secrets of RLHF in Large Language Models Part II: Reward Modeling

Binghai Wang, Rui Zheng, Lu Chen +24

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has become a crucial technology for aligning language models with human values and intentions, enabling models to produce more hel…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Human-Instruction-Free LLM Self-Alignment with Limited Samples

Hongyi Guo, Yuanshun Yao, Wei Shen +4

Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human values is a vital task for LLM practitioners. Current alignment techniques have several limitations: (1) requiring a large amount o…

cs.CL2024

Linear Alignment: A Closed-form Solution for Aligning Human Preferences without Tuning and Feedback

Songyang Gao, Qiming Ge, Wei Shen +9

The success of AI assistants based on Language Models (LLMs) hinges on Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) to comprehend and align with user intentions. However, trad…

cs.CL2023★ 8 cited

LoRAMoE: Alleviate World Knowledge Forgetting in Large Language Models via MoE-Style Plugin

Shihan Dou, Enyu Zhou, Yan Liu +13

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is a crucial step for large language models (LLMs), enabling them to align with human instructions and enhance their capabilities in downstream tasks.…

cs.CL2023

Loose lips sink ships: Mitigating Length Bias in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

Wei Shen, Rui Zheng, Wenyu Zhan +5

Reinforcement learning from human feedback serves as a crucial bridge, aligning large language models with human and societal values. This alignment requires a vast corpus of human…

cs.LG2023

Improving Generalization of Alignment with Human Preferences through Group Invariant Learning

Rui Zheng, Wei Shen, Yuan Hua +9

The success of AI assistants based on language models (LLMs) hinges crucially on Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), which enables the generation of responses more a…

cs.CL2023★ 19 cited

Secrets of RLHF in Large Language Models Part I: PPO

Rui Zheng, Shihan Dou, Songyang Gao +24

Large language models (LLMs) have formulated a blueprint for the advancement of artificial general intelligence. Its primary objective is to function as a human-centric (helpful, h…