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6 papers

cs.CL2026

Learning Latent Reasoning Traces for Scalar Reward Models End-to-End

Sanwoo Lee, Clive Bai, Hsiu-Yuan Huang +3

Reward models (RMs) are central to aligning large language models with human preferences via reinforcement learning. Although traditional scalar RMs enable efficient and probabilis…

cs.LG2026

ADWIN: Adaptive Windows for Horizon-Aware On-Policy Distillation

Kun Liang, Chenming Tang, Clive Bai +3

On-policy distillation (OPD) transfers reasoning behavior by training a student on teacher feedback along student-generated trajectories, but standard full-rollout training ties ev…

cs.LG2026

Listwise Policy Optimization: Group-based RLVR as Target-Projection on the LLM Response Simplex

Yun Qu, Qi Wang, Yixiu Mao +11

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a standard approach for large language models (LLMs) post-training to incentivize reasoning capacity. Among existin…

cs.AI2026

Small Generalizable Prompt Predictive Models Can Steer Efficient RL Post-Training of Large Reasoning Models

Yun Qu, Qi Wang, Yixiu Mao +8

Reinforcement learning enhances the reasoning capabilities of large language models but often involves high computational costs due to rollout-intensive optimization. Online prompt…

cs.CL2026

Composition-RL: Compose Your Verifiable Prompts for Reinforcement Learning of Large Language Models

Xin Xu, Clive Bai, Kai Yang +7

Large-scale verifiable prompts underpin the success of Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), but they contain many uninformative examples and are costly to expand…

cs.LG2026

ORBIT: On-policy Exploration-Exploitation for Controllable Multi-Budget Reasoning

Kun Liang, Clive Bai, Xin Xu +5

Recent Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) achieve strong performance by leveraging long-form Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning, but uniformly applying overlong reasoning at inference tim…