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9 papers

cs.LG2026

Toward Plasticity-Preserving KL Regularization for Capability Retention in LLM Reinforcement Learning

Li Wang, Xiaodong Lu, Xiaohan Wang +4

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a central paradigm for large language model (LLM) post-training, but optimization toward new objectives can degrade capabilities already pres…

cs.SE2026

HybridCodeAuthorship: A Benchmark Dataset for Line-Level Code Authorship Detection

Luke Patterson, Li Wang, Adam Faulkner

Thanks to the rapid adoption of AI code assistants powered by large language models (LLMs), industry codebases are, increasingly, a hybrid of AI- and human-authored code. For risk…

cs.AI2026

ZipRL: Adaptive Multi-Turn Context Compression with Hindsight Response Replay

Zhexin Hu, Li Wang, Xiaohan Wang +4

Adaptive context compression is vital for scaling Large Language Models (LLMs) to complex, multi-turn agent tasks. However, rule-based compression methods may discard task-critical…

cs.CL2026

Implicit Hierarchical GRPO: Decoupling Tool Invocation from Execution for Tool-Integrated Mathematical Reasoning

Li Wang, Xiaohan Wang, Xiaodong Lu +5

Large language models (LLMs) have increasingly leveraged tool invocation to enhance their reasoning capabilities. However, existing approaches typically tightly couple tool invocat…

cs.LG2026

ResRL: Boosting LLM Reasoning via Negative Sample Projection Residual Reinforcement Learning

Zihan Lin, Xiaohan Wang, Jie Cao +6

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) enhances reasoning of Large Language Models (LLMs) but usually exhibits limited generation diversity due to the over-incentivi…

cs.AI2026

Deconstructing Instruction-Following: A New Benchmark for Granular Evaluation of Large Language Model Instruction Compliance Abilities

Alberto Purpura, Li Wang, Sahil Badyal +2

Reliably ensuring Large Language Models (LLMs) follow complex instructions is a critical challenge, as existing benchmarks often fail to reflect real-world use or isolate complianc…