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11 papers

cs.AI2026

Detecting LLM-Generated Tokens in Human--LLM Coauthored Text

Yangjun Lu, Hongyi Zhou, Fabian Spill +3

The rise of human-AI collaborative writing has created a growing need for fine-grained detection methods that support localizing likely LLM-generated content in mixed-authorship do…

cs.LG2026

Kernelized Advantage Estimation: From Nonparametric Statistics to LLM Reasoning

Shijin Gong, Kai Ye, Jin Zhu +3

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have increasingly relied on reinforcement learning (RL) to improve their reasoning capabilities. Three types of approaches have been…

cs.LG2026

Demystifying Group Relative Policy Optimization: Its Policy Gradient is a U-Statistic

Hongyi Zhou, Kai Ye, Erhan Xu +4

Group relative policy optimization (GRPO), a core methodological component of DeepSeekMath and DeepSeek-R1, has emerged as a cornerstone for scaling reasoning capabilities of large…

cs.CL2026

Learn-to-Distance: Distance Learning for Detecting LLM-Generated Text

Hongyi Zhou, Jin Zhu, Kai Ye +3

Modern large language models (LLMs) such as GPT, Claude, and Gemini have transformed the way we learn, work, and communicate. Yet, their ability to produce highly human-like text r…

cs.CV2026

A Difference-in-Difference Approach to Detecting AI-Generated Images

Xinyi Qi, Kai Ye, Chengchun Shi +3

Diffusion models are able to produce AI-generated images that are almost indistinguishable from real ones. This raises concerns about their potential misuse and poses substantial c…

stat.ML2026

Robust Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback for Large Language Models Fine-Tuning

Kai Ye, Hongyi Zhou, Jin Zhu +2

Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has emerged as a key technique for aligning the output of large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. To learn the reward…