collaborators

9 papers

cs.AI2026

Experience is the Best Teacher: Motivating Effective Exploration in Reinforcement Learning for LLMs

Wenjian Zhang, Kongcheng Zhang, Jiaxin Qi +2

Reinforcement Learning (RL) with rubric-based rewards has recently shown remarkable progress in enhancing general reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet still…

cs.LG2026

Breaking the Exploration Bottleneck: Rubric-Scaffolded Reinforcement Learning for General LLM Reasoning

Yang Zhou, Sunzhu Li, Shunyu Liu +11

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have underscored the potential of Reinforcement Learning (RL) to facilitate the emergence of reasoning capabilities. Despite the enc…

cs.CL2026

SeRL: Self-Play Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models with Limited Data

Wenkai Fang, Shunyu Liu, Yang Zhou +5

Recent advances have demonstrated the effectiveness of Reinforcement Learning (RL) in improving the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, existing works…

cs.AI2025

Replay Failures as Successes: Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning for Instruction Following

Kongcheng Zhang, Qi Yao, Shunyu Liu +7

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has shown promise for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) to follow instructions with various constraints. Despite the encouraging results, RL improve…

cs.CL2025

MUSE: MCTS-Driven Red Teaming Framework for Enhanced Multi-Turn Dialogue Safety in Large Language Models

Siyu Yan, Long Zeng, Xuecheng Wu +6

As large language models~(LLMs) become widely adopted, ensuring their alignment with human values is crucial to prevent jailbreaks where adversaries manipulate models to produce ha…

cs.AI2025

Consistent Paths Lead to Truth: Self-Rewarding Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning

Kongcheng Zhang, Qi Yao, Shunyu Liu +5

Recent advances of Reinforcement Learning (RL) have highlighted its potential in complex reasoning tasks, yet effective training often relies on external supervision, which limits…