most citedIs Model Collapse Inevitable? Breaking the Curse of Recursion by Accumulating Real and Synthetic Data

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cs.CL2025

LitBench: A Benchmark and Dataset for Reliable Evaluation of Creative Writing

Daniel Fein, Sebastian Russo, Violet Xiang +3

Evaluating creative writing generated by large language models (LLMs) remains challenging because open-ended narratives lack ground truths. Without performant automated evaluation…

cs.RO2025

Towards Embodiment Scaling Laws in Robot Locomotion

Bo Ai, Liu Dai, Nico Bohlinger +7

Cross-embodiment generalization underpins the vision of building generalist embodied agents for any robot, yet its enabling factors remain poorly understood. We investigate embodim…

cs.RO2024

RLDG: Robotic Generalist Policy Distillation via Reinforcement Learning

Charles Xu, Qiyang Li, Jianlan Luo +1

Recent advances in robotic foundation models have enabled the development of generalist policies that can adapt to diverse tasks. While these models show impressive flexibility, th…

cs.LG2024

Generative Reward Models

Dakota Mahan, Duy Van Phung, Rafael Rafailov +6

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has greatly improved the performance of modern Large Language Models (LLMs). The RLHF process is resource-intensive and technicall…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Collapse or Thrive? Perils and Promises of Synthetic Data in a Self-Generating World

Joshua Kazdan, Rylan Schaeffer, Apratim Dey +4

What happens when generative machine learning models are pretrained on web-scale datasets containing data generated by earlier models? Some prior work warns of "model collapse" as…

cs.LG2024

Scalable Ensembling For Mitigating Reward Overoptimisation

Ahmed M. Ahmed, Rafael Rafailov, Stepan Sharkov +2

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has enabled significant advancements within language modeling for powerful, instruction-following models. However, the alignment o…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Scaling Laws for Reward Model Overoptimization in Direct Alignment Algorithms

Rafael Rafailov, Yaswanth Chittepu, Ryan Park +5

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) has been crucial to the recent success of Large Language Models (LLMs), however, it is often a complex and brittle process. In the…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Offline Regularised Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models Alignment

Pierre Harvey Richemond, Yunhao Tang, Daniel Guo +15

The dominant framework for alignment of large language models (LLM), whether through reinforcement learning from human feedback or direct preference optimisation, is to learn from…

cs.LG2024

Efficient Imitation Learning with Conservative World Models

Victor Kolev, Rafael Rafailov, Kyle Hatch +2

We tackle the problem of policy learning from expert demonstrations without a reward function. A central challenge in this space is that these policies fail upon deployment due to…

cs.LG2024★ 12 cited

Is Model Collapse Inevitable? Breaking the Curse of Recursion by Accumulating Real and Synthetic Data

Matthias Gerstgrasser, Rylan Schaeffer, Apratim Dey +11

The proliferation of generative models, combined with pretraining on web-scale data, raises a timely question: what happens when these models are trained on their own generated out…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

From to : Your Language Model is Secretly a Q-Function

Rafael Rafailov, Joey Hejna, Ryan Park +1

Reinforcement Learning From Human Feedback (RLHF) has been critical to the success of the latest generation of generative AI models. In response to the complex nature of the classi…