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most citedExploration and Anti-Exploration with Distributional Random Network Distillation

3 citations · 7 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cs.LG2026

Learning to Steer, Steering to See: Unveiling the Geometry of RLVR in Large Language Models via Trainable Vectors

Yuchen Cai, Ding Cao, Qixiang Yin +10

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a key paradigm for enhancing the reasoning of large language models, yet the high dimensionality of parameter updates makes its training dyna…

cs.CL2026

Consolidating RLVR Capabilities Across Domains: A Deep Dive into Fusion Paradigms

Siye Wu, Kai Yang, Yuchen Cai +8

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) improves specific capabilities of large language models, but covering multiple capabilities often involves training separate d…

cs.LG2026

GCPO: Diagnosing and Constraining Subspace Geometry in Rollout RL for LLMs

Kai Yang, Jingwei Xu, Wanyu Wang +4

On-policy rollout methods such as GRPO are central to post-training of large language models, yet they frequently suffer from training instabilities, cross-task capability degradat…

cs.CL2026

Learning to Foresee: Unveiling the Unlocking Efficiency of On-Policy Distillation

Yuchen Cai, Ding Cao, Liang Lin +9

On-policy distillation (OPD) has emerged as an efficient post-training paradigm for large language models. However, existing studies largely attribute this advantage to denser and…

cs.LG2026

Listwise Policy Optimization: Group-based RLVR as Target-Projection on the LLM Response Simplex

Yun Qu, Qi Wang, Yixiu Mao +11

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a standard approach for large language models (LLMs) post-training to incentivize reasoning capacity. Among existin…

cs.LG2026

Debiased Model-based Representations for Sample-efficient Continuous Control

Jiafei Lyu, Zichuan Lin, Scott Fujimoto +5

Model-based representations recently stand out as a promising framework that embeds latent dynamics information into the representations for downstream off-policy actor-critic lear…

cs.CV2026

C-CoT: Counterfactual Chain-of-Thought with Vision-Language Models for Safe Autonomous Driving

Kefei Tian, Yuansheng Lian, Kai Yang +2

Safety-critical planning in complex environments, particularly at urban intersections, remains a fundamental challenge for autonomous driving. Existing methods, whether rule-based…

cs.AI2026

LoopVLA: Learning Sufficiency in Recurrent Refinement for Vision-Language-Action Models

Boyang Shen, Kaixiang Yang, Hao Wang +4

Current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models typically treat the deepest representation of a vision-language backbone as universally optimal for action prediction. However, robotic…

cs.LG2025

Exploration by Random Distribution Distillation

Zhirui Fang, Kai Yang, Jian Tao +4

Exploration remains a critical challenge in online reinforcement learning, as an agent must effectively explore unknown environments to achieve high returns. Currently, the main ex…

cs.LG2024

Novelty-Guided Data Reuse for Efficient and Diversified Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Yangkun Chen, Kai Yang, Jian Tao +1

Recently, deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) has demonstrated its potential to tackle complex cooperative tasks, pushing the boundaries of AI in collaborative environme…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

A Two-stage Reinforcement Learning-based Approach for Multi-entity Task Allocation

Aicheng Gong, Kai Yang, Jiafei Lyu +1

Task allocation is a key combinatorial optimization problem, crucial for modern applications such as multi-robot cooperation and resource scheduling. Decision makers must allocate…

cs.LG2024

CDSA: Conservative Denoising Score-based Algorithm for Offline Reinforcement Learning

Zeyuan Liu, Kai Yang, Xiu Li

Distribution shift is a major obstacle in offline reinforcement learning, which necessitates minimizing the discrepancy between the learned policy and the behavior policy to avoid…

cs.SD2024★ 1 cited

BATON: Aligning Text-to-Audio Model with Human Preference Feedback

Huan Liao, Haonan Han, Kai Yang +7

With the development of AI-Generated Content (AIGC), text-to-audio models are gaining widespread attention. However, it is challenging for these models to generate audio aligned wi…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

Exploration and Anti-Exploration with Distributional Random Network Distillation

Kai Yang, Jian Tao, Jiafei Lyu +1

Exploration remains a critical issue in deep reinforcement learning for an agent to attain high returns in unknown environments. Although the prevailing exploration Random Network…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Using Human Feedback to Fine-tune Diffusion Models without Any Reward Model

Kai Yang, Jian Tao, Jiafei Lyu +6

Using reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF) has shown significant promise in fine-tuning diffusion models. Previous methods start by training a reward model that aligns…