2 papers
cs.CL2026
ArcANE: Do Role-Playing Language Agents Stay in Character at the Right Time?
Woojung Song, Nalim Kim, Sangjun Song +3
Role-playing language agents (RPLAs) should play characters whose values and behavior evolve as the story progresses, not maintain a fixed persona. Existing benchmarks measure fact…
cs.LG2026
KL for a KL: On-Policy Distillation with Control Variate Baseline
Minjae Oh, Sangjun Song, Gyubin Choi +2
On-Policy Distillation (OPD) has emerged as a dominant post-training paradigm for large language models, especially for reasoning domains. However, OPD remains unstable in practice…