3 papers
cs.LG2026
Position: The Hidden Costs and Measurement Gaps of Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards
Fang Wu, Aaron Tu, Weihao Xuan +21
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is a practical, scalable way to improve large language models on math, code, and other structured tasks. However, we argue tha…
cs.CL2026
UniSD: Towards a Unified Self-Distillation Framework for Large Language Models
Yiqiao Jin, Yiyang Wang, Lucheng Fu +7
Self-distillation (SD) offers a promising path for adapting large language models (LLMs) without relying on stronger external teachers. However, SD in autoregressive LLMs remains c…
cs.AI2026
Multiplayer Nash Preference Optimization
Fang Wu, Xu Huang, Weihao Xuan +8
Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has emerged as the standard paradigm for aligning large language models with human preferences. However, reward-based methods grou…