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9 papers

cs.CL2026

Freshness-Aware Prioritized Experience Replay for LLM/VLM Reinforcement Learning

Weiyu Ma, Yongcheng Zeng, Yan Song +4

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has achieved impressive success in post-training Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs), with on-policy algorithms such as PPO,…

cs.LG2026

CurES: From Gradient Analysis to Efficient Curriculum Learning for Reasoning LLMs

Yongcheng Zeng, Zexu Sun, Bokai Ji +7

Curriculum learning plays a crucial role in enhancing the training efficiency of large language models (LLMs) on reasoning tasks. However, existing methods often fail to adequately…

cs.RO2026

Swimming Under Constraints: A Safe Reinforcement Learning Framework for Quadrupedal Bio-Inspired Propulsion

Xinyu Cui, Fei Han, Hang Xu +9

Bio-inspired aquatic propulsion offers high thrust and maneuverability but is prone to destabilizing forces such as lift fluctuations, which are further amplified by six-degree-of-…

cs.RO2026

Sim2Sea: Sim-to-Real Policy Transfer for Maritime Vessel Navigation in Congested Waters

Xinyu Cui, Xuanfa Jin, Xue Yan +7

Autonomous navigation in congested maritime environments is a critical capability for a wide range of real-world applications. However, it remains an unresolved challenge due to co…

cs.CL2025

Evolving LLMs' Self-Refinement Capability via Synergistic Training-Inference Optimization

Yongcheng Zeng, Xinyu Cui, Xuanfa Jin +11

Self-Refinement refers to a model's ability to revise its own responses to produce improved outputs. This capability can also serve as a fundamental mechanism for Self-Improvement,…

cs.LG2025

Cog-Rethinker: Hierarchical Metacognitive Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning

Zexu Sun, Yongcheng Zeng, Erxue Min +3

Contemporary progress in large language models (LLMs) has revealed notable inferential capacities via reinforcement learning (RL) employing verifiable reward, facilitating the deve…