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5 papers

cs.LG2026

When to Stop Reusing: Dynamic Gradient Gating for Sample-Efficient RLVR

Yuchun Miao, Sen Zhang, Yuqi Zhang +4

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has become the dominant paradigm for advanced reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs), but rollout samples are expensive to…

cs.LG2026

Aligning Few-Step Diffusion Models with Dense Reward Difference Learning

Ziyi Zhang, Li Shen, Sen Zhang +6

Few-step diffusion models enable efficient high-resolution image synthesis but struggle to align with specific downstream objectives due to limitations of existing reinforcement le…

cs.LG2025

Information-Theoretic Reward Modeling for Stable RLHF: Detecting and Mitigating Reward Hacking

Yuchun Miao, Liang Ding, Sen Zhang +3

Despite the success of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) in aligning language models with human values, reward hacking-or reward over-optimization-remains a major c…

cs.CV2025

Image Captions are Natural Prompts for Text-to-Image Models

Shiye Lei, Hao Chen, Sen Zhang +2

With the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC), it has become a common practice to train models on synthetic data due to data-scarcity and privacy l…

cs.LG2025

The Energy Loss Phenomenon in RLHF: A New Perspective on Mitigating Reward Hacking

Yuchun Miao, Sen Zhang, Liang Ding +3

This work identifies the Energy Loss Phenomenon in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and its connection to reward hacking. Specifically, energy loss in the final la…