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11 papers

cs.AI2026

MatrAIx: Simulating the World with 8.3 Billion Persona Agents

Xiaomin Li, Yuexing Hao, Jianheng Hou +90

Human evaluation of AI systems and digital products is costly, slow, and difficult to scale. Offline evaluations are more scalable but often abstract away human diversity and inter…

cs.LG2026

TREK: Distill to Explore, Reinforce to Refine

Yuanda Xu, Zhengze Zhou, Kayhan Behdin +10

Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) is effective when the current policy already samples useful reasoning trajectories, but it stalls on hard prompts whose correct solution m…

cs.LG2026

TRIAGE: Role-Typed Credit Assignment for Agentic Reinforcement Learning

Yuanda Xu, Zhengze Zhou, Hejian Sang +6

Agentic reinforcement learning requires assigning credit to environment-facing actions such as searches, clicks, edits, navigation commands, and object interactions. Standard GRPO…

cs.LG2026

CRISP: Compressed Reasoning via Iterative Self-Policy Distillation

Hejian Sang, Yuanda Xu, Zhengze Zhou +3

Reasoning models often generate far more tokens than a task requires, which raises inference cost and can compound errors. We introduce CRISP (Compressed Reasoning via Iterative Se…

cs.LG2026

TIP: Token Importance in On-Policy Distillation

Yuanda Xu, Hejian Sang, Zhengze Zhou +3

On-policy knowledge distillation (OPD) trains a student on its own rollouts under token-level supervision from a teacher. Not all token positions matter equally, but existing views…

cs.LG2026

Beyond GRPO and On-Policy Distillation: An Empirical Sparse-to-Dense Reward Principle for Language-Model Post-Training

Yuanda Xu, Hejian Sang, Zhengze Zhou +3

In settings where labeled verifiable training data is the binding constraint, each checked example should be allocated to the model and reward density where it is most informative.…