arXiv Machine Learning

Beyond Binary Rewards: A Comparative Study of Reward Design for Reinforcement Unlearning

arXiv:2607. 27968v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Machine unlearning seeks to selectively remove specific knowledge from trained language models without full retraining, a growing necessity under privacy regulations such as GDPR and the EU AI Act.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 26

Designing Reward Signals for Portable Query Generation: A Case Study in Industrial Semantic Job Search

arXiv:2606. 27291v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Job-search platforms rely on low-bandwidth query interfaces that often fail to capture the high-dimensional complexity of candidate profiles.

By Ping Liu, Qianqi Shen, Jianqiang Shen, Wenqiong Liu, Rajat Arora, Yunxiang Ren, Chunnan Yao, Dan Xu, Baofen Zheng, Wanjun Jiang, Andrii Soviak, Kevin Kao, Jingwei Wu, Wenjing Zhang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 25

Designing Reward Signals for Portable Query Generation: A Case Study in Industrial Semantic Job Search

Job-search platforms rely on low-bandwidth query interfaces that often fail to capture the high-dimensional complexity of candidate profiles. We present an end-to-end RLAIF (Reinforcement Learning from AI Feedback) framework to generate \emph{portable} job search queries, terms that abstract away seeker-specific identifiers while preserving generalizable qualifications.

arXiv AI
Jul 14

To Answer or to Abstain: Mitigating Search-Agent Hallucinations via Abstention-Aware Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2607. 10738v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in equipping Large Language Models (LLMs) with search tools and outcome-reward reinforcement learning (RL) have achieved new state-of-the-art results on open-domain QA tasks.

By Fengji Zhang, Tianyu Fan, Yuxiang Zheng, Xinyao Niu, Chengen Huang, Jacky Keung, Bei Chen
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 12

To Answer or to Abstain: Mitigating Search-Agent Hallucinations via Abstention-Aware Reinforcement Learning

Recent advances in equipping Large Language Models (LLMs) with search tools and outcome-reward reinforcement learning (RL) have achieved new state-of-the-art results on open-domain QA tasks. However, we argue that current training paradigms harbor a critical vulnerability: they predominantly reward correct answers but fail to penalize fabricated ones when retrieval fails, thereby implicitly exacerbating hallucinations.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

Advantage Collapse in Group Relative Policy Optimization: Diagnosis and Mitigation

arXiv:2605. 21125v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO), a prominent algorithm within the Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) framework, has achieved strong results in improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs).

By Xixiang He, Qiyao Sun, Ao Cheng, Xingming Li, Xuanyu Ji, Hailun Lu, Runke Huang, Qingyong Hu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 30

Post-Training at the Edge of Detectability: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Fine-Tuning

arXiv:2607. 26358v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) fine-tuning is widely used in language model training to improve model performance on a target task while limiting drift from a reference policy.

By Keegan Harris, Brian W. Lee, Ian Waudby-Smith, Philip Amortila, Nika Haghtalab, Michael I. Jordan