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7 papers

cs.LG2026

Prune-OPD: Efficient and Reliable On-Policy Distillation for Long-Horizon Reasoning

Zhicheng Yang, Zhijiang Guo, Yifan Song +5

On-policy distillation (OPD) leverages dense teacher rewards to enhance reasoning models. However, scaling OPD to long-horizon tasks exposes a critical flaw: as the student's gener…

cs.LG2026

Depth-Breadth Synergy in RLVR: Unlocking LLM Reasoning Gains with Adaptive Exploration

Zhicheng Yang, Zhijiang Guo, Yinya Huang +6

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward (RLVR) is a powerful method for enhancing the reasoning abilities of Large Language Models, but its full potential is limited by a lac…

cs.AI2026

Accordion-Thinking: Self-Regulated Step Summaries for Efficient and Readable LLM Reasoning

Zhicheng Yang, Zhijiang Guo, Yinya Huang +5

Scaling test-time compute via long Chain-of-Thought unlocks remarkable gains in reasoning capabilities, yet it faces practical limits due to the linear growth of KV cache and quadr…

cs.CL2026

From Prefix Cache to Fusion RAG Cache: Accelerating LLM Inference in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Jiahao Wang, Weiyu Xie, Mingxing Zhang +10

Retrieval-Augmented Generation enhances Large Language Models by integrating external knowledge, which reduces hallucinations but increases prompt length. This increase leads to hi…

cs.LG2025

Critique to Verify: Accurate and Honest Test-Time Scaling with RL-Trained Verifiers

Zhicheng Yang, Zhijiang Guo, Yinya Huang +4

Test-time scaling via solution sampling and aggregation has become a key paradigm for improving the reasoning performance of Large Language Models (LLMs). While reward model select…

cs.LG2025

TreeRPO: Tree Relative Policy Optimization

Zhicheng Yang, Zhijiang Guo, Yinya Huang +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable reasoning capabilities through Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) methods. However, a key limitation of existi…