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7 papers

cs.CL2026

TinyJudge: Unverifiable Constraint Alignment via Lightweight Specialist Ensembles

Yirong Zeng, Yufei Liu, Xiao Ding +9

Instruction Following (IF) is a core capability of LLMs, requiring strict adherence to diverse constraints, ranging from verifiable ones (e.g., output length) to unverifiable ones…

cs.LG2026

More Bang for the Buck: Process Reward Modeling with Entropy-Driven Uncertainty

Lang Cao, Renhong Chen, Yingtian Zou +9

We introduce the Entropy-Driven Uncertainty Process Reward Model (EDU-PRM), a novel entropy-driven training framework for process reward modeling that enables dynamic, uncertainty-…

cs.AI2026

AutoTool: Automatic Scaling of Tool-Use Capabilities in RL via Decoupled Entropy Constraints

Yirong Zeng, Xiao Ding, Yufei Liu +9

Tool use represents a critical capability for AI agents, with recent advances focusing on leveraging reinforcement learning (RL) to scale up the explicit reasoning process to achie…

cs.AI2026

The Tool-Overuse Illusion: Why Does LLM Prefer External Tools over Internal Knowledge?

Yirong Zeng, Shen You, Yufei Liu +9

Equipping LLMs with external tools effectively addresses internal reasoning limitations. However, it introduces a critical yet under-explored phenomenon: tool overuse, the unnecess…

cs.LG2026

Precision over Diversity: High-Precision Reward Generalizes to Robust Instruction Following

Yirong Zeng, Yufei Liu, Xiao Ding +9

A central belief in scaling reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards for instruction following (IF) tasks is that, a diverse mixture of verifiable hard and unverifiable soft…

cs.CL2025

iTool: Reinforced Fine-Tuning with Dynamic Deficiency Calibration for Advanced Tool Use

Yirong Zeng, Xiao Ding, Yuxian Wang +8

Augmenting large language models (LLMs) with external tools is a promising approach to enhance their capabilities, especially for complex tasks. Synthesizing tool-use data through…