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most citedProcess Reinforcement through Implicit Rewards

2 citations · 4 across the 18 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.MA2026

Do Multi-Agent LLMs Explore Each Other?

Hyeong Kyu Choi, Jiatong Li, Wendi Li +2

Exploration is essential for reliable autonomy in multi-agent systems, yet it remains unclear whether large language model (LLM) agents can explore effectively when interacting wit…

cs.LG2026

Neglected Free Lunch from Post-training: Progress Advantage for LLM Agents

Changdae Oh, Wendi Li, Seongheon Park +3

Process reward models enable fine-grained, step-level evaluation of LLMs, yet building them for agentic settings remains prohibitively difficult: long-horizon interactions, irrever…

cs.RO2026

Hide-and-Seek in Trajectories: Discovering Failure Signals for VLA Runtime Monitoring

Seongheon Park, Wendi Li, Changdae Oh +4

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models enable robots to follow natural language instructions and generalize across diverse tasks, but they remain vulnerable to execution failures that…

cs.LG2026

Cyclical Entropy Eruption: Entropy Dynamics in Agent Reinforcement Learning

Wendi Li, Shawn Im, Sharon Li

Agentic large language models are increasingly used to solve real-world tasks by reasoning over goals, invoking tools, and interacting with external environments. Reinforcement lea…

cs.CV2026

When Vision Speaks for Sound

Xiaofei Wen, Wenjie Jacky Mo, Xingyu Fu +6

Despite rapid progress in video-capable MLLMs, we find that their apparent audio understanding in videos is often vision-driven: models rely on visual cues to infer or hallucinate…

cs.LG2026

LAD: Learning Advantage Distribution for Reasoning

Wendi Li, Sharon Li

Current reinforcement learning objectives for large-model reasoning primarily focus on maximizing expected rewards. This paradigm can lead to overfitting to dominant reward signals…

cs.AI2026

Uncertainty Quantification in LLM Agents: Foundations, Emerging Challenges, and Opportunities

Changdae Oh, Seongheon Park, To Eun Kim +8

Uncertainty quantification (UQ) for large language models (LLMs) is a key building block for safety guardrails of daily LLM applications. Yet, even as LLM agents are increasingly d…

cs.LG2025

General Exploratory Bonus for Optimistic Exploration in RLHF

Wendi Li, Changdae Oh, Sharon Li

Optimistic exploration is central to improving sample efficiency in reinforcement learning with human feedback, yet existing exploratory bonus methods to incentivize exploration of…

cs.CL2025

CoLD: Counterfactually-Guided Length Debiasing for Process Reward Models in Mathematical Reasoning

Congmin Zheng, Jiachen Zhu, Jianghao Lin +6

Process Reward Models (PRMs) play a central role in evaluating and guiding multi-step reasoning in large language models (LLMs), especially for mathematical problem solving. Howeve…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

Process Reinforcement through Implicit Rewards

Ganqu Cui, Lifan Yuan, Zefan Wang +22

Dense process rewards have proven a more effective alternative to the sparse outcome-level rewards in the inference-time scaling of large language models (LLMs), particularly in ta…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Free Process Rewards without Process Labels

Lifan Yuan, Wendi Li, Huayu Chen +6

Different from its counterpart outcome reward models (ORMs), which evaluate the entire responses, a process reward model (PRM) scores a reasoning trajectory step by step, providing…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

FATH: Authentication-based Test-time Defense against Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks

Jiongxiao Wang, Fangzhou Wu, Wendi Li +5

Large language models (LLMs) have been widely deployed as the backbone with additional tools and text information for real-world applications. However, integrating external informa…

cs.CL2024

Process Reward Model with Q-Value Rankings

Wendi Li, Yixuan Li

Process Reward Modeling (PRM) is critical for complex reasoning and decision-making tasks where the accuracy of intermediate steps significantly influences the overall outcome. Exi…

cs.CL2024

Position Debiasing Fine-Tuning for Causal Perception in Long-Term Dialogue

Shixuan Fan, Wei Wei, Wendi Li +3

The core of the dialogue system is to generate relevant, informative, and human-like responses based on extensive dialogue history. Recently, dialogue generation domain has seen ma…

cs.CL2024

Reinforcement Learning with Token-level Feedback for Controllable Text Generation

Wendi Li, Wei Wei, Kaihe Xu +3

To meet the requirements of real-world applications, it is essential to control generations of large language models (LLMs). Prior research has tried to introduce reinforcement lea…

cs.AI2023

TREA: Tree-Structure Reasoning Schema for Conversational Recommendation

Wendi Li, Wei Wei, Xiaoye Qu +4

Conversational recommender systems (CRS) aim to timely trace the dynamic interests of users through dialogues and generate relevant responses for item recommendations. Recently, va…

cs.IR2023

Towards Hierarchical Policy Learning for Conversational Recommendation with Hypergraph-based Reinforcement Learning

Sen Zhao, Wei Wei, Yifan Liu +6

Conversational recommendation systems (CRS) aim to timely and proactively acquire user dynamic preferred attributes through conversations for item recommendation. In each turn of C…

cs.LG2022

DDG-DA: Data Distribution Generation for Predictable Concept Drift Adaptation

Wendi Li, Xiao Yang, Weiqing Liu +2

In many real-world scenarios, we often deal with streaming data that is sequentially collected over time. Due to the non-stationary nature of the environment, the streaming data di…