arXiv:2606. 30627v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Conservative offline training is widely advocated as a safe foundation for subsequent online adaptation: if a policy stays close to well-supported behaviour, the argument goes, it is less likely to exploit imperfections in a learned reward model.
By Subramanyam Sahoo, Aman Chadha, Vinija Jain, Divya Chaudhary
arXiv:2604. 10727v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Classical information-theoretic learning bounds typically rely on KL mutual information and moment-generating-function (MGF) arguments, which are well matched to bounded or sub-Gaussian losses but can be ineffective when losses or rewards are heavy-tailed.
By Huiming Zhang, Binghan Li, Wan Tian, Qiang Sun
arXiv:2608. 06825v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning from correct demonstrations is harder than supervised learning when many answers are correct: after predicting, the learner sees one valid answer but not whether its own answer was valid, nor any reward.
By Pahan Dewasurendra
arXiv:2604. 04535v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modern machine learning systems, such as generative models and recommendation systems, often evolve through a cycle of deployment, user interaction, and periodic model updates.
By Mark Braverman, Roi Livni, Yishay Mansour, Shay Moran, Kobbi Nissim
arXiv:2606. 30923v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Imitation Learning is a natural framework for learning in sequential decision-making systems and has emerged as the dominant paradigm through which we understand language model training.
By Ved Sriraman, Peihan Liu, Daniel Hsu, Adam Block
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. A standard way to balance this trade-off is via a KL-regularized RL objective, although this formulation does not by itself provide a principled way to set the regularization coefficient.
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
arXiv:2608. 06337v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A monotone adversary observes an i.
By Anay Mehrotra
arXiv:2607. 05609v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Continual Learning (CL) literature has long been driven by the goal of mitigating catastrophic forgetting.
By Giulia Lanzillotta, Mandana Samiei, Doina Precup, Razvan Pascanu, Claire Vernade
arXiv:2606. 25451v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Estimating token-level advantages in reinforcement learning (RL) for language models remains challenging because scaling up episodic experience collection is expensive.
By Fengdi Che, Yang Liu, Lei Yu, Meng Cao, Tong Che, Rupam Mahmood, Dale Schuurmans
arXiv:2607. 08971v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The stochastic linear bandit, where actions are represented as vectors and rewards are linear, is a central paradigm for sequential decision making.
By Gautam Dasarathy, Vineet Gattani, Lalit Jain
arXiv:2608. 07922v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Adaptive learning needs both a state that preserves what observations imply and opportunities to act on that state.
By Zicheng Lyu, Zengfeng Huang