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SALT: When More Rollouts Don't Help in Group-Based Policy Optimization and How to Make Them Matter
Powei Chang, Jinpeng Zhang, Chaoqun Sun +6
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) often adopts GRPO-style group-relative updates, sampling multiple rollouts per prompt to construct normalized learning signals…
SPICE: Submodular Penalized Information-Conflict Selection for Efficient Large Language Model Training
Powei Chang, Jinpeng Zhang, Bowen Chen +9
Information-based data selection for instruction tuning is compelling: maximizing the log-determinant of the Fisher information yields a monotone submodular objective, enabling gre…
Inpainting-Guided Policy Optimization for Diffusion Large Language Models
Siyan Zhao, Mengchen Liu, Jing Huang +8
Masked diffusion large language models (dLLMs) are emerging as promising alternatives to autoregressive LLMs, offering competitive performance while supporting unique generation ca…
Fine-Tuning Discrete Diffusion Models via Reward Optimization with Applications to DNA and Protein Design
Chenyu Wang, Masatoshi Uehara, Yichun He +7
Recent studies have demonstrated the strong empirical performance of diffusion models on discrete sequences across domains from natural language to biological sequence generation.…
Derivative-Free Guidance in Continuous and Discrete Diffusion Models with Soft Value-Based Decoding
Xiner Li, Yulai Zhao, Chenyu Wang +8
Diffusion models excel at capturing the natural design spaces of images, molecules, DNA, RNA, and protein sequences. However, rather than merely generating designs that are natural…