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17 papers

cs.AI2026

SceneActBench: Can Agents Act on the 3D Scenes They See?

Yifei Zhao, Xiangxin Zhou, Wenhao Yang +11

Vision-language model (VLM) agents increasingly use tools to act on 3D scenes rather than only describe them. Existing 3D benchmarks score textual responses or single-object operat…

cs.LG2026

Predictive Divergence Masks for LLM RL

Xiangxin Zhou, Jiarui Yao, Penghui Qi +4

Reinforcement learning for large language models (LLMs) typically relies on trust-region masks to stabilize off-policy updates. The dominant PPO-style approach uses the sampled-tok…

cs.LG2026

GRAIN: Group Aggregation via Min-Norm Objective

Nghia Bui, Jiarui Yao, Lijing Wang

Learning instability is a long-standing problem across machine learning, but it is especially acute in the overparameterized regime that defines modern deep learning: large models…

cs.LG2026

Rethinking the Divergence Regularization in LLM RL

Jiarui Yao, Xiangxin Zhou, Penghui Qi +3

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a key component of post-training large language models (LLMs). In practice, LLM RL is often off-policy because of training-inference mismatch…

cs.LG2026

Future-KL Regularized GRPO: Process-Level Credit Assignment from -Divergence Regularization

Jiarui Yao, Ruida Wang, Hao Bai +1

Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) is widely used for critic-free Large Language Model (LLM) post-training, but its KL regularization is usually implemented as a local loss-…

cs.CL2026

AgentSPEX: An Agent SPecification and EXecution Language

Pengcheng Wang, Jerry Huang, Jiarui Yao +7

Language-model agent systems commonly rely on reactive prompting, in which a single instruction guides the model through an open-ended sequence of reasoning and tool-use steps, lea…