arXiv Machine Learning

AREAL-DTA: Dynamic Tree Attention for Efficient Reinforcement Learning of Large Language Models

arXiv:2602. 00482v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL)-based post-training for large language models (LLMs) is computationally expensive, as it generates many rollout sequences that frequently share long token prefixes.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 10

HeaPA: Difficulty-Aware Heap Sampling and On-Policy Query Augmentation for LLM Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2601. 22448v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: RLVR has become a standard recipe for training LLMs on reasoning tasks with verifiable outcomes, but when rollout generation dominates the cost, efficiency hinges on which prompts are sampled and when.

By Weiqi Wang, Xin Liu, Binxuan Huang, Hejie Cui, Rongzhi Zhang, Changlong Yu, Shuowei Jin, Jingfeng Yang, Qingyu Yin, Zhengyang Wang, Zheng Li, Yifan Gao, Priyanka Nigam, Bing Yin, Lihong Li, Yangqiu Song
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 24

Efficient and Trainable Language Model Test-Time Scaling via Local Branch Routing

Test-time scaling improves language-model reasoning, but existing approaches often face a difficult trade-off: long chain-of-thought sampling remains single-threaded, while sentence- or solution-level search can be computationally expensive and hard to train end-to-end. We introduce Local Branch Routing (LBR), a token-level test-time scaling framework that expands a small local lookahead tree, forwards all sampled branches through the language model, and uses a lightweight router to select the depth-1 subtree to commit.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Bole: Efficient Tree Speculation for Hybrid-Attention Language Models

arXiv:2608. 01651v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hybrid-attention large language models combine full attention with recurrent linear attention to reduce long-context inference costs, yet their autoregressive decoding remains memory-bound.

By Li Wang, Yi Su, Xiabao Wu, Chiran You, Yongchao Liu, Zhan Qiu, Juelu Zhang, Jiajun Zheng, Fangxin Liu, Jie Zhang, Chen Tian, Chengying Huan
arXiv AI
Jun 9

LEAF: Growing Trees Without Branching for Speech-Aware Large Language Model Post-Training

arXiv:2606. 07610v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: State-of-the-art GRPO-style methods for speech-aware large language model post-training suffer from coarse credit assignment, broadcasting the same terminal-reward advantage to every token in a response.

By Argyrios Gerogiannis, Yekaterina Yegorova, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Venugopal V. Veeravalli