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20242026
most citedREBEL: Reinforcement Learning via Regressing Relative Rewards

2 citations · 4 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.AI2026

OfficeQA Pro: An Enterprise Benchmark for End-to-End Grounded Reasoning

Krista Opsahl-Ong, Arnav Singhvi, Jasmine Collins +10

We introduce OfficeQA Pro, a benchmark for evaluating AI agents on grounded, multi-document reasoning over a large and heterogeneous document corpus. The corpus consists of U.S. Tr…

cs.AI2026

KARL: Knowledge Agents via Reinforcement Learning

Jonathan D. Chang, Andrew Drozdov, Shubham Toshniwal +23

We present a system for training enterprise search agents via reinforcement learning that achieves state-of-the-art performance across a diverse suite of hard-to-verify agentic sea…

cs.LG2026

LLMs Can Learn to Reason Via Off-Policy RL

Daniel Ritter, Owen Oertell, Bradley Guo +3

Reinforcement learning (RL) approaches for Large Language Models (LLMs) frequently use on-policy algorithms, such as PPO or GRPO. However, policy lag from distributed training arch…

cs.LG2025

Scaling Offline RL via Efficient and Expressive Shortcut Models

Nicolas Espinosa-Dice, Yiyi Zhang, Yiding Chen +5

Diffusion and flow models have emerged as powerful generative approaches capable of modeling diverse and multimodal behavior. However, applying these models to offline reinforcemen…

cs.LG2025

Efficient Controllable Diffusion via Optimal Classifier Guidance

Owen Oertell, Shikun Sun, Yiding Chen +3

The controllable generation of diffusion models aims to steer the model to generate samples that optimize some given objective functions. It is desirable for a variety of applicati…

cs.LG2025

Convergence Of Consistency Model With Multistep Sampling Under General Data Assumptions

Yiding Chen, Yiyi Zhang, Owen Oertell +1

Diffusion models accomplish remarkable success in data generation tasks across various domains. However, the iterative sampling process is computationally expensive. Consistency mo…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

TurboHopp: Accelerated Molecule Scaffold Hopping with Consistency Models

Kiwoong Yoo, Owen Oertell, Junhyun Lee +2

Navigating the vast chemical space of druggable compounds is a formidable challenge in drug discovery, where generative models are increasingly employed to identify viable candidat…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Dataset Reset Policy Optimization for RLHF

Jonathan D. Chang, Wenhao Zhan, Owen Oertell +4

Reinforcement Learning (RL) from Human Preference-based feedback is a popular paradigm for fine-tuning generative models, which has produced impressive models such as GPT-4 and Cla…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

REBEL: Reinforcement Learning via Regressing Relative Rewards

Zhaolin Gao, Jonathan D. Chang, Wenhao Zhan +7

While originally developed for continuous control problems, Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) has emerged as the work-horse of a variety of reinforcement learning (RL) application…

cs.CV2024

RL for Consistency Models: Faster Reward Guided Text-to-Image Generation

Owen Oertell, Jonathan D. Chang, Yiyi Zhang +2

Reinforcement learning (RL) has improved guided image generation with diffusion models by directly optimizing rewards that capture image quality, aesthetics, and instruction follow…

cs.LG2024

More Benefits of Being Distributional: Second-Order Bounds for Reinforcement Learning

Kaiwen Wang, Owen Oertell, Alekh Agarwal +2

In this paper, we prove that Distributional Reinforcement Learning (DistRL), which learns the return distribution, can obtain second-order bounds in both online and offline RL in g…