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9 papers

cs.LG2026

Logarithmic Regret for Online KL-Regularized Reinforcement Learning

Heyang Zhao, Chenlu Ye, Wei Xiong +2

Recent advances in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) have shown that KL-regularization plays a pivotal role in improving the efficiency of RL fine-tuning for large…

cs.LG2025

Reinforce-Ada: An Adaptive Sampling Framework under Non-linear RL Objectives

Wei Xiong, Chenlu Ye, Baohao Liao +6

Reinforcement learning (RL) for large language model reasoning is frequently hindered by signal loss, a phenomenon where standard uniform sampling with small group sizes fails to u…

cs.AI2025

StepWiser: Stepwise Generative Judges for Wiser Reasoning

Wei Xiong, Wenting Zhao, Weizhe Yuan +4

As models increasingly leverage multi-step reasoning strategies to solve complex problems, supervising the logical validity of these intermediate steps has become a critical resear…

cs.LG2025

A Minimalist Approach to LLM Reasoning: from Rejection Sampling to Reinforce

Wei Xiong, Jiarui Yao, Yuhui Xu +8

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a prevailing approach for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) on complex reasoning tasks. Among recent methods, GRPO stands out for its…

cs.CL2025

From Lists to Emojis: How Format Bias Affects Model Alignment

Xuanchang Zhang, Wei Xiong, Lichang Chen +3

In this paper, we study format biases in reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). We observe that many widely-used preference models, including human evaluators, GPT-4, a…

cs.LG2025

DPO Meets PPO: Reinforced Token Optimization for RLHF

Han Zhong, Zikang Shan, Guhao Feng +6

In the classical Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) framework, Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) is employed to learn from sparse, sentence-level rewards -- a chall…