arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4
Inference-Time Policy Alignment for Fair Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2608. 00175v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning (RL) agents achieve strong performance by optimizing scalar reward functions.
Don't Mix Rewards, Mix Policies: Policy Decomposition and Optimization for Multi-Reward RL
arXiv:2607. 29246v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern large language models (LLMs) are expected not just to answer correctly, but to adapt their behavior to different human values and use cases.
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arXiv AI
Jul 7
A Technical Survey of Reinforcement Learning Techniques for Large Language Models
arXiv:2507. 04136v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This survey offers a comprehensive foundation on the integration of RL with language models, highlighting prominent algorithms such as Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO), Q-Learning, and Actor-Critic methods.
arXiv AI
Aug 5
Don't Peek at the Answer: Outcome-Masked Group Relative Policy Optimization for Label-Free RLVR
arXiv:2608. 03119v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) improves LLM reasoning but typically relies on ground-truth (GT) answers, limiting scalability.
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Jun 24
MiniOpt: Reasoning to Model and Solve General Optimization Problems with Limited Resources
Achieving strong optimization generalization across diverse optimization problems while requiring limited training resources remains a challenging problem for optimization-oriented large language models (LLMs). Existing approaches typically rely on large-scale supervised datasets, costly reasoning annotations, and expensive intermediate step verification, resulting in substantial training overhead.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 30
Meta-Learned Reward Shaping for Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
arXiv:2607. 26094v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is the standard approach for aligning large language models with human preferences, but its quality is limited by static, task-agnostic reward models.
arXiv AI
Jun 4
BiasGRPO: Stabilizing Bias Mitigation in High-Variance Reward Landscapes via Group-Relative Policy Optimization
arXiv:2606. 04807v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mitigating social bias in Large Language Models (LLMs) presents a distinct alignment challenge: unlike verifiable tasks, bias lacks a single ground truth, creating a high-variance, subjective reward landscape.
arXiv AI
Jun 2
Value-Free Policy Optimization via Reward Partitioning
arXiv:2506. 13702v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Single-trajectory preference optimization methods learn from datasets of ((prompt, response, reward)) tuples, offering a practical alternative to pairwise preference learning by directly leveraging scalar feedback.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 21
Implicit Actor Critic Coupling via a Supervised Learning Framework for RLVR
arXiv:2509. 02522v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) have empowered large language models (LLMs) to tackle challenging reasoning tasks such as mathematics and programming, however existing RLVR methods often suffer from sparse reward signals and unstable policy gradient updates inherent to RL-based approaches.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 25
MiniOpt: Reasoning to Model and Solve General Optimization Problems with Limited Resources
arXiv:2606. 25832v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Achieving strong optimization generalization across diverse optimization problems while requiring limited training resources remains a challenging problem for optimization-oriented large language models (LLMs).
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 4
Policy Improvement Reinforcement Learning
arXiv:2604. 00860v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has become a central post-training paradigm for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models.
arXiv AI
Jun 2
RLVR without Ineffective Samples: Group Prioritized Off-Policy Optimization for LLM Reasoning
arXiv:2606. 01281v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs).
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16
GD$^2$PO: Mitigating Multi-Reward Conflicts via Group-Dynamic reward-Decoupled Policy Optimization
arXiv:2606. 16771v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLMs advance, post-training reinforcement learning (RL) increasingly relies on multi-dimensional rewards to cultivate comprehensive capabilities.