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9 papers

cs.CL2026

Coupled Variational Reinforcement Learning for Language Model General Reasoning

Xueru Wen, Jie Lou, Yanjiang Liu +6

While reinforcement learning has achieved impressive progress in language model reasoning, it is constrained by the requirement for verifiable rewards. Recent verifier-free RL meth…

cs.CL2026

MemSearcher: Training LLMs to Reason, Search and Manage Memory via End-to-End Reinforcement Learning

Qianhao Yuan, Jie Lou, Zichao Li +6

LLM-based search agents often concatenate the full interaction history into the context, producing long and noisy inputs, and increasing compute cost and GPU memory overhead. To ad…

cs.LG2026

Tackling Length Inflation Without Trade-offs: Group Relative Reward Rescaling for Reinforcement Learning

Zichao Li, Jie Lou, Fangchen Dong +8

Reinforcement learning significantly enhances LLM capabilities but suffers from a critical issue: length inflation, where models adopt verbosity or inefficient reasoning to maximiz…

cs.AI2026

Scalable Oversight for Superhuman AI via Recursive Self-Critiquing

Xueru Wen, Jie Lou, Xinyu Lu +5

As AI capabilities increasingly surpass human proficiency in complex tasks, current alignment techniques, including SFT and RLHF, face fundamental challenges in ensuring reliable o…

cs.CL2025

PretrainZero: Reinforcement Active Pretraining

Xingrun Xing, Zhiyuan Fan, Jie Lou +3

Mimicking human behavior to actively learning from general experience and achieve artificial general intelligence has always been a human dream. Recent reinforcement learning (RL)…

cs.CL2025

Critic-CoT: Boosting the reasoning abilities of large language model via Chain-of-thoughts Critic

Xin Zheng, Jie Lou, Boxi Cao +7

Self-critic has become a crucial mechanism for enhancing the reasoning performance of LLMs. However, current approaches mainly involve basic prompts for intuitive instance-level fe…