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5 papers

cs.AI2026

To Mix or To Merge: Toward Multi-Domain Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models

Haoqing Wang, Xiang Long, Ziheng Li +3

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) plays a key role in stimulating the explicit reasoning capability of Large Language Models (LLMs). We can achieve expert-level…

cs.AI2026

Not All Preferences Are Created Equal: Stability-Aware and Gradient-Efficient Alignment for Reasoning Models

Hui Wu, Hengyi Cai, Jinman Zhao +6

Preference-based alignment is pivotal for training large reasoning models; however, standard methods like Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) typically treat all preference pairs…

cs.AI2026

Efficient Thought Space Exploration Through Strategic Intervention

Ziheng Li, Hengyi Cai, Xiaochi Wei +4

While large language models (LLMs) demonstrate emerging reasoning capabilities, current inference-time expansion methods incur prohibitive computational costs by exhaustive samplin…

cs.LG2025

Staying in the Sweet Spot: Responsive Reasoning Evolution via Capability-Adaptive Hint Scaffolding

Ziheng Li, Zexu Sun, Jinman Zhao +8

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has achieved remarkable success in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). However, existing RLV…

cs.CL2025

Keyword-Centric Prompting for One-Shot Event Detection with Self-Generated Rationale Enhancements

Ziheng Li, Zhi-Hong Deng

Although the LLM-based in-context learning (ICL) paradigm has demonstrated considerable success across various natural language processing tasks, it encounters challenges in event…