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cs.LG2026

Adaptive Layerwise Perturbation: Unifying Off-Policy Corrections for LLM RL

Chenlu Ye, Xuanchang Zhang, Yifan Hao +6

Off-policy problems such as policy staleness and training--inference mismatch have become a major bottleneck for training stability and further exploration in LLM RL. The distribut…

cs.LG2025

Transformers as Multi-task Learners: Decoupling Features in Hidden Markov Models

Yifan Hao, Chenlu Ye, Chi Han +1

Transformer based models have shown remarkable capabilities in sequence learning across a wide range of tasks, often performing well on specific task by leveraging input-output exa…

cs.LG2025

Towards Better Generalization via Distributional Input Projection Network

Yifan Hao, Yanxin Lu, Hanning Zhang +2

As overparameterized models become increasingly prevalent, training loss alone offers limited insight into generalization performance. While smoothness has been linked to improved…

cs.LG2025

Optimizing Chain-of-Thought Reasoners via Gradient Variance Minimization in Rejection Sampling and RL

Jiarui Yao, Yifan Hao, Hanning Zhang +4

Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning in large language models (LLMs) can be formalized as a latent variable problem, where the model needs to generate intermediate reasoning steps. Whi…

cs.LG2024

On the Benefits of Over-parameterization for Out-of-Distribution Generalization

Yifan Hao, Yong Lin, Difan Zou +1

In recent years, machine learning models have achieved success based on the independently and identically distributed assumption. However, this assumption can be easily violated in…

cs.LG2024

The Surprising Harmfulness of Benign Overfitting for Adversarial Robustness

Yifan Hao, Tong Zhang

Recent empirical and theoretical studies have established the generalization capabilities of large machine learning models that are trained to (approximately or exactly) fit noisy…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Spurious Feature Diversification Improves Out-of-distribution Generalization

Yong Lin, Lu Tan, Yifan Hao +5

Generalization to out-of-distribution (OOD) data is a critical challenge in machine learning. Ensemble-based methods, like weight space ensembles that interpolate model parameters,…