activity
20242026
collaborators

9 papers

cs.CL2026

ScrambleToolBench: Agents Search Exhaustively Even When Their Own Map Points to the Next Step

Vernon Toh, Navonil Majumder, Zhengyuan Liu +2

To operate robustly in open-world environments, autonomous agents should be able to infer the behavior of unfamiliar systems through interaction alone, even in the absence of docum…

cs.CL2026

GRAIL: Gradient-Reweighted Advantages for Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

Tej Deep Pala, Vernon Toh, Soujanya Poria

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (e.g. GRPO) is now a common way to improve mathematical reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs). However, current methods usually b…

cs.AI2025

Training Vision-Language Process Reward Models for Test-Time Scaling in Multimodal Reasoning: Key Insights and Lessons Learned

Brandon Ong, Tej Deep Pala, Vernon Toh +2

Process Reward Models (PRMs) provide step-level supervision that improves the reliability of reasoning in large language models. While PRMs have been extensively studied in text-ba…

cs.CL2025

Lessons from Training Grounded LLMs with Verifiable Rewards

Shang Hong Sim, Tej Deep Pala, Vernon Toh +5

Generating grounded and trustworthy responses remains a key challenge for large language models (LLMs). While retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with citation-based grounding hol…

cs.CV2025

The Jumping Reasoning Curve? Tracking the Evolution of Reasoning Performance in GPT-[n] and o-[n] Models on Multimodal Puzzles

Vernon Y. H. Toh, Yew Ken Chia, Deepanway Ghosal +1

The releases of OpenAI's o-[n] series, such as o1, o3, and o4-mini, mark a significant paradigm shift in Large Language Models towards advanced reasoning capabilities. Notably, mod…

cs.RO2024

Emma-X: An Embodied Multimodal Action Model with Grounded Chain of Thought and Look-ahead Spatial Reasoning

Qi Sun, Pengfei Hong, Tej Deep Pala +4

Traditional reinforcement learning-based robotic control methods are often task-specific and fail to generalize across diverse environments or unseen objects and instructions. Visu…