collaborators

6 papers

cs.LG2026

Self-Distilled Reasoner: On-Policy Self-Distillation for Large Language Models

Siyan Zhao, Zhihui Xie, Mengchen Liu +4

Knowledge distillation improves large language model (LLM) reasoning by compressing the knowledge of a teacher LLM to train smaller LLMs. On-policy distillation advances this appro…

cs.LG2025

Online Intrinsic Rewards for Decision Making Agents from Large Language Model Feedback

Qinqing Zheng, Mikael Henaff, Amy Zhang +2

Automatically synthesizing dense rewards from natural language descriptions is a promising paradigm in reinforcement learning (RL), with applications to sparse reward problems, ope…

eess.IV2025

WaterFlow: Learning Fast & Robust Watermarks using Stable Diffusion

Vinay Shukla, Prachee Sharma, Ryan Rossi +3

The ability to embed watermarks in images is a fundamental problem of interest for computer vision, and is exacerbated by the rapid rise of generated imagery in recent times. Curre…

cs.LG2025

Inpainting-Guided Policy Optimization for Diffusion Large Language Models

Siyan Zhao, Mengchen Liu, Jing Huang +8

Masked diffusion large language models (dLLMs) are emerging as promising alternatives to autoregressive LLMs, offering competitive performance while supporting unique generation ca…

cs.CL2025

d1: Scaling Reasoning in Diffusion Large Language Models via Reinforcement Learning

Siyan Zhao, Devaansh Gupta, Qinqing Zheng +1

Recent large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong reasoning capabilities that benefits from online reinforcement learning (RL). These capabilities have primarily been de…

cs.LG2025

Multi-fidelity Reinforcement Learning Control for Complex Dynamical Systems

Luning Sun, Xin-Yang Liu, Siyan Zhao +3

Controlling instabilities in complex dynamical systems is challenging in scientific and engineering applications. Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has seen promising results for a…