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11 papers

cs.LG2026

Faster Synchronous On-Policy RL via Straggler-Aware Group Sizing

Azal Ahmad Khan, Ammar Ahmed, Zeshan Fayyaz +3

Synchronous reinforcement learning methods such as Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) provide stable and reproducible on-policy training, but they are highly vulnerable to s…

cs.LG2026

HiPER: Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning with Explicit Credit Assignment for Large Language Model Agents

Jiangweizhi Peng, Yuanxin Liu, Ruida Zhou +4

Training LLMs as interactive agents for multi-turn decision-making remains challenging, particularly in long-horizon tasks with sparse and delayed rewards, where agents must execut…

cs.LG2026

Stabilizing Off-Policy Training for Long-Horizon LLM Agent via Turn-Level Importance Sampling and Clipping-Triggered Normalization

Chenliang Li, Adel Elmahdy, Alex Boyd +7

Reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms such as PPO and GRPO are widely used to train large language models (LLMs) for multi-turn agentic tasks. However, in off-policy training pipe…

cs.LG2025

Reinforcing Multi-Turn Reasoning in LLM Agents via Fine-Grained Reward Structure and Credit Assignment

Quan Wei, Siliang Zeng, Chenliang Li +9

Reinforcement Learning (RL) approaches have been wildly used to enhance the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Model (LLM) agents in long-horizon, multi-turn scenarios. Such…

cs.LG2025

Aligning Frozen LLMs by Reinforcement Learning: An Iterative Reweight-then-Optimize Approach

Xinnan Zhang, Chenliang Li, Siliang Zeng +6

Aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences usually requires fine-tuning methods such as RLHF and DPO. These methods directly optimize the model parameters, so the…

cs.LG2025

BRiTE: Bootstrapping Reinforced Thinking Process to Enhance Language Model Reasoning

Han Zhong, Yutong Yin, Shenao Zhang +10

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in complex reasoning tasks, yet generating reliable reasoning processes remains a significant challenge. We p…