most citedThe Entropy Mechanism of Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning Language Models

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cs.LG2026

TPPO: Tracking-Value PPO For Language Model Reasoning

Futing Wang, Chenxi Li, Jianhao Yan +6

Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) is widely used in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards for language-model reasoning. While \emph{value evolution along trajectory} char…

cs.LG2026

AdaStep: Adaptive Step Credit Weighting for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Xin Wang, Wenhao Wu, Menghao Zhang +3

Long-horizon LLM agents are typically trained with sparse outcome rewards, making trajectory-level objectives too coarse to distinguish the contribution of individual decisions. St…

cs.CL2026

TRACE: A Self-Evolving Skill Bank for Consistent, Limit-Aware LLM Agents

Wenhao Wu, Menghao Zhang, Xin Wang +3

Reliable deployment of LLM agents in user-facing products depends not on raw task-solving ability but on consistency and limit-awareness: behaving the same way across repeated tria…

cs.CL2026

MemFuse: Multi-Source Memory Fusion from Fragmented Observations

Chao Li, Yuanfa Li, Wenhao Wu +3

Long-term memory is essential for agents that operate across extended interactions, yet existing memory systems and benchmarks predominantly focus on single-source textual historie…

cs.CL2026

OpenVisTool: An Open Recipe for Synthesizing Instructive Visual Tool-Use Trajectories

Changhao Xiang, Shilin Zhang, Zheng Ma +8

Visual tool use has emerged as a fundamental capability for multimodal agents to actively acquire evidence beyond a fixed image encoding. The prevailing recipe learns this capabili…

cs.AI2026

FailForge: Distilling Procedural Competence from Persistent Failures into Code Agents

Dongyi Lv, Fushun E, Aichen Cai +8

Rejection sampling fine-tuning (RFT) is widely used to train code agents by generating trajectories on verifiable software engineering tasks, retaining those that pass the tests, a…

cs.RO2026

Look Before You Leap: Distilling Tree Search into Action Evaluation for Frozen VLA Models

Xinyi Xie, Zican Hu, Zhanyu Liu +7

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models acquire broad embodied capabilities through large-scale pretraining, yet their generalization remains far more fragile than that of LLMs and VLM…

cs.AI2026

Bridging Interleaved Multi-Modal Reasoning as a Unified Decision Process

Zican Hu, Xuyang Hu, Yiming Liu +10

Unified multi-modal models (UMMs) have shown promising interleaved text-image reasoning capabilities, yet effectively optimizing such multi-turn generation via reinforcement learni…

cs.AI2026

Beyond Compilation: Evaluating Faithful Natural-Language-to-Lean Statement Formalization

Ke Zhang, Patricio Gallardo Candela, Sudhir Murthy +3

Lean verifies that a generated declaration is well typed, but cannot check whether it states what the user intended. We measure how far compilation overstates faithfulness in state…

cs.SE2026

FailureMem: A Failure-Aware Multimodal Framework for Autonomous Software Repair

Ruize Ma, Yilei Jiang, Shilin Zhang +7

Multimodal Automated Program Repair (MAPR) extends traditional program repair by requiring models to jointly reason over source code, textual issue descriptions, and visual artifac…

cs.CL2026

From Conflict to Consensus: Boosting Medical Reasoning via Multi-Round Agentic RAG

Wenhao Wu, Zhentao Tang, Yafu Li +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit high reasoning capacity in medical question-answering, but their tendency to produce hallucinations and outdated knowledge poses critical risks…

cs.CL2026

Think Longer to Explore Deeper: Learn to Explore In-Context via Length-Incentivized Reinforcement Learning

Futing Wang, Jianhao Yan, Yun Luo +6

Achieving effective test-time scaling requires models to engage in In-Context Exploration -- the intrinsic ability to generate, verify, and refine multiple reasoning hypotheses wit…

cs.CL2026

New Skills or Sharper Primitives? A Probabilistic Perspective on the Emergence of Reasoning in RLVR

Zhilin Wang, Yafu Li, Shunkai Zhang +4

Whether Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) endows Large Language Models (LLMs) with new capabilities or merely elicits latent traces remains a central debate. In…

cs.CL2026

Characterizing, Evaluating, and Optimizing Complex Reasoning

Haoran Zhang, Yafu Li, Zhi Wang +4

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) increasingly rely on reasoning traces with complex internal structures. However, existing work lacks a unified answer to three fundamental questions:…

cs.LG2025

ExGRPO: Learning to Reason from Experience

Runzhe Zhan, Yafu Li, Zhi Wang +5

Reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) is an emerging paradigm for improving the reasoning ability of large language models. However, standard on-policy training dis…

cs.AI2025

Diversity-Incentivized Exploration for Versatile Reasoning

Zican Hu, Shilin Zhang, Yafu Li +7

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a crucial paradigm for incentivizing reasoning capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs). Due to vast state-…

cs.LG2025

Mixture-of-Experts Meets In-Context Reinforcement Learning

Wenhao Wu, Fuhong Liu, Haoru Li +4

In-context reinforcement learning (ICRL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for adapting RL agents to downstream tasks through prompt conditioning. However, two notable challenges…

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.AI2025

Text-to-Decision Agent: Offline Meta-Reinforcement Learning from Natural Language Supervision

Shilin Zhang, Zican Hu, Wenhao Wu +7

Offline meta-RL usually tackles generalization by inferring task beliefs from high-quality samples or warmup explorations. The restricted form limits their generality and usability…

cs.LG2025

Learning to Reason under Off-Policy Guidance

Jianhao Yan, Yafu Li, Zican Hu +5

Recent advances in large reasoning models (LRMs) demonstrate that sophisticated behaviors such as multi-step reasoning and self-reflection can emerge via reinforcement learning wit…