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10 papers

cs.LG2026

ETS: Energy-Guided Test-Time Scaling for Training-Free RL Alignment

Xiuyu Li, Jinkai Zhang, Mingyang Yi +4

Reinforcement Learning (RL) post-training alignment for language models is effective, but also costly and unstable in practice, owing to its complicated training process. To addres…

cs.CV2026

Zooming without Zooming: Region-to-Image Distillation for Fine-Grained Multimodal Perception

Lai Wei, Liangbo He, Jun Lan +9

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at broad visual understanding but still struggle with fine-grained perception, where decisive evidence is small and easily overwhelme…

cs.LG2026

Stabilizing Policy Gradient Methods via Reward Profiling

Shihab Ahmed, El Houcine Bergou, Aritra Dutta +1

Policy gradient methods, which have been extensively studied in the last decade, offer an effective and efficient framework for reinforcement learning problems. However, their perf…

cs.LG2026

Towards a Theoretical Understanding to the Generalization of RLHF

Zhaochun Li, Mingyang Yi, Yue Wang +2

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and its variants have emerged as the dominant approaches for aligning Large Language Models with human intent. While empirically e…

cs.LG2025

Trust Region Preference Approximation: A simple and stable reinforcement learning algorithm for LLM reasoning

Xuerui Su, Shufang Xie, Guoqing Liu +7

Recently, Large Language Models (LLMs) have rapidly evolved, approaching Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) while benefiting from large-scale reinforcement learning to enhance H…

cs.IR2025

Pre-training Generative Recommender with Multi-Identifier Item Tokenization

Bowen Zheng, Enze Liu, Zhongfu Chen +4

Generative recommendation autoregressively generates item identifiers to recommend potential items. Existing methods typically adopt a one-to-one mapping strategy, where each item…