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most citedQ-Adapter: Customizing Pre-trained LLMs to New Preferences with Forgetting Mitigation

1 citations · 2 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.CL2026

REAR: Test-time Preference Realignment through Reward Decomposition

Fuxiang Zhang, Pengcheng Wang, Chenran Li +6

Aligning large language models (LLMs) with diverse user preferences is a critical yet challenging task. While post-training methods can adapt models to specific needs, they often r…

cs.LG2026

Provably Efficient Policy-Reward Co-Pretraining for Adversarial Imitation Learning

Tian Xu, Zexuan Chen, Zhilong Zhang +4

Adversarial imitation learning (AIL) achieves high-quality imitation compared to behavioral cloning (BC), but demands substantial online environment interaction. Recent empirical w…

cs.LG2026

Off-Policy Value-Based Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models

Peng-Yuan Wang, Ziniu Li, Tian Xu +8

Improving data utilization efficiency is critical for scaling reinforcement learning (RL) for long-horizon tasks where generating trajectories is expensive. However, the dominant R…

cs.LG2026

Non-Adversarial Imitation Learning Provably Free of Compounding Errors: The Value Flow Mechanism

Tian Xu, Chenyang Wang, Xiaochen Zhai +3

Adversarial imitation learning (AIL) achieves high-quality imitation by mitigating compounding errors inherent to behavioral cloning (BC), yet its adversarial optimization frequent…

cs.MA2025

Multi-agent In-context Coordination via Decentralized Memory Retrieval

Tao Jiang, Zichuan Lin, Lihe Li +6

Large transformer models, trained on diverse datasets, have demonstrated impressive few-shot performance on previously unseen tasks without requiring parameter updates. This capabi…

cs.CL2025

Generalist Reward Models: Found Inside Large Language Models

Yi-Chen Li, Tian Xu, Yang Yu +6

The alignment of Large Language Models (LLMs) is critically dependent on reward models trained on costly human preference data. While recent work explores bypassing this cost with…

cs.CL2025

Controlling Large Language Model with Latent Actions

Chengxing Jia, Ziniu Li, Pengyuan Wang +4

Adapting Large Language Models (LLMs) to downstream tasks using Reinforcement Learning (RL) has proven to be an effective approach. However, LLMs do not inherently define the struc…

cs.CL2025

Sentence-level Reward Model can Generalize Better for Aligning LLM from Human Preference

Wenjie Qiu, Yi-Chen Li, Xuqin Zhang +4

Learning reward models from human preference datasets and subsequently optimizing language models via reinforcement learning has emerged as a fundamental paradigm for aligning LLMs…

cs.CL2024

Improving Sample Efficiency of Reinforcement Learning with Background Knowledge from Large Language Models

Fuxiang Zhang, Junyou Li, Yi-Chen Li +3

Low sample efficiency is an enduring challenge of reinforcement learning (RL). With the advent of versatile large language models (LLMs), recent works impart common-sense knowledge…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Q-Adapter: Customizing Pre-trained LLMs to New Preferences with Forgetting Mitigation

Yi-Chen Li, Fuxiang Zhang, Wenjie Qiu +5

Large Language Models (LLMs), trained on a large amount of corpus, have demonstrated remarkable abilities. However, it may not be sufficient to directly apply open-source LLMs like…

cs.CL2024

BWArea Model: Learning World Model, Inverse Dynamics, and Policy for Controllable Language Generation

Chengxing Jia, Pengyuan Wang, Ziniu Li +4

Large language models (LLMs) have catalyzed a paradigm shift in natural language processing, yet their limited controllability poses a significant challenge for downstream applicat…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Any-step Dynamics Model Improves Future Predictions for Online and Offline Reinforcement Learning

Haoxin Lin, Yu-Yan Xu, Yihao Sun +6

Model-based methods in reinforcement learning offer a promising approach to enhance data efficiency by facilitating policy exploration within a dynamics model. However, accurately…

cs.LG2024

Disentangling Policy from Offline Task Representation Learning via Adversarial Data Augmentation

Chengxing Jia, Fuxiang Zhang, Yi-Chen Li +5

Offline meta-reinforcement learning (OMRL) proficiently allows an agent to tackle novel tasks while solely relying on a static dataset. For precise and efficient task identificatio…

cs.LG2024

Debiased Offline Representation Learning for Fast Online Adaptation in Non-stationary Dynamics

Xinyu Zhang, Wenjie Qiu, Yi-Chen Li +4

Developing policies that can adjust to non-stationary environments is essential for real-world reinforcement learning applications. However, learning such adaptable policies in off…

cs.LG2023

Efficient Human-AI Coordination via Preparatory Language-based Convention

Cong Guan, Lichao Zhang, Chunpeng Fan +6

Developing intelligent agents capable of seamless coordination with humans is a critical step towards achieving artificial general intelligence. Existing methods for human-AI coord…

cs.LG2023

Imitator Learning: Achieve Out-of-the-Box Imitation Ability in Variable Environments

Xiong-Hui Chen, Junyin Ye, Hang Zhao +9

Imitation learning (IL) enables agents to mimic expert behaviors. Most previous IL techniques focus on precisely imitating one policy through mass demonstrations. However, in many…