arXiv Machine Learning

Weak-to-Strong Learning in Decision Making

arXiv:2607. 18467v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many operational decisions rely on predictive models that estimate uncertain outcomes conditional on observable contexts.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Coupled Training with Privileged Information and Unlabeled Data

arXiv:2605. 23268v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In many prediction problems, we have extra information during training (for example, measurements that are expensive or slow to collect) that will not be available when the model is deployed.

By Jiahao Shi, Omar Hagrass, Jason M. Klusowski
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

Extreme Region Policy Distillation

arXiv:2605. 25582v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning for large language models faces a fundamental trade-off between sample efficiency and asymptotic performance: strictly on-policy methods discard trajectories after a single update, while off-policy reuse introduces distribution mismatch that existing trust-region techniques mitigate primarily by enforcing conservative optimization, often leaving rich training signals underutilized.

By Changyu Chen, Xiting Wang, Rui Yan
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 26

Learning from a Biased Sample

arXiv:2209. 01754v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The empirical risk minimization approach to data-driven decision making requires access to training data drawn under the same conditions as those that will be faced when the decision rule is deployed.

By Roshni Sahoo, Lihua Lei, Stefan Wager
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Weak-Driven Learning: How Weak Agents make Strong Agents Stronger

arXiv:2602. 08222v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As post-training optimization becomes central to improving large language models, we observe a persistent saturation bottleneck: once models grow highly confident, further training yields diminishing returns.

By Zehao Chen, Gongxun Li, Tianxiang Ai, Zixuan Huang, Xiaodong Liu, Yifei Li, Wang Zhou, Fuzhen Zhuang, Xianglong Liu, Jianxin Li, Deqing Wang, Yikun Ban