arXiv:2604. 20140v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) is an effective framework for aligning large language models with human preferences, but it struggles with complex reasoning tasks.
By Darsh Kachroo, Arjun Prasaath Anbazhagan, Adriana Caraeni, Brennan Lagasse, Kevin Zhu
arXiv:2606. 01561v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences is often formulated via Direct Preference Optimization (DPO).
By Xiwen Chen, Wenhui Zhu, Jingjing Wang, Peijie Qiu, Zhipeng Wang, Huayu Li, ZhengXiao He, Xuanzhao Dong, Prayag Tiwari, Mingkun Xu, Yujian Xiong, Feng Luo, Abolfazl Razi, Brendan Hogan Rappazzo, Anderson Schneider, Yuriy Nevmyvaka
arXiv:2509. 23982v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Preference alignment is a critical step in making Large Language Models (LLMs) useful and aligned with (human) preferences.
By Lucio La Cava, Andrea Tagarelli
arXiv:2606. 04503v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has greatly advanced large reasoning models (LRMs), but it requires timely training on a huge fully-annotated dataset.
By Guangcheng Zhu, Shenzhi Yang, Haobo Wang, Xing Zheng, Yingfan MA, Xuening Feng, Zhongqi Chen, Bowen Song, Weiqiang Wang, Gang Chen
arXiv:2604. 27733v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human intent, whether through explicit reward modeling or direct methods such as DPO, fundamentally relies on minimizing a surrogate loss as a proxy for the true pairwise ranking objective.
By Mehryar Mohri, Yutao Zhong
arXiv:2607. 28680v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Entity linking in tables matches short and ambiguous cell mentions to their corresponding knowledge-base entities.
By Yixin Peng, Kehao Li, Stefan Decker
arXiv:2606. 05464v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Verifiable reward training has improved mathematical and coding reasoning, but these domains capture only part of step-by-step decision making.
By Nicol\'as Astorga, Nabeel Seedat, Mihaela van der Schaar
arXiv:2607. 22622v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent Text-to-SQL methods rely heavily on reasoning-centric paradigms such as Chain-of-Thought (CoT), achieving substantial gains on complex benchmarks at the cost of high inference-time overhead.
By Soohyuk Jang, Jiheum Yeom, Nohil Park, Sang Hun Kim, Yoonyoung Choi, Kiwook Bae, Sungroh Yoon
arXiv:2510. 00492v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The reliability of large language models (LLMs) during test-time scaling is often assessed with \emph{external verifiers} or \emph{reward models} that distinguish correct reasoning from flawed logic.
By Dong Bok Lee, Seanie Lee, Sangwoo Park, Minki Kang, Jinheon Baek, Dongki Kim, Dominik Wagner, Jiongdao Jin, Heejun Lee, Tobias Bocklet, Jinyu Wang, Jingjing Fu, Sung Ju Hwang, Jiang Bian, Lei Song
arXiv:2606. 09380v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become a leading paradigm for improving the reasoning ability of large language models through outcome-based supervision.
By Han Zhou, Adam X. Yang, Laurence Aitchison, Anna Korhonen, Albert Q. Jiang
arXiv:2606. 17312v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models can arrive at the same answer through reasoning paths that are unstable, contradictory, or difficult to rank consistently -- a failure mode especially prevalent in multi-step deductive reasoning.
By Baishali Chaudhury, Mengdie Flora Wang, Hyunji Hayley Park, Rahul Ghosh, Sungmin Hong, Jae Oh Woo
arXiv:2606. 03866v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scaling recommender systems via large language models (LLMs) has become a prominent trend in the industry.
By Yuecheng Li, Zeyu Song, Jing Yao, Chi Lu, Peng Jiang, Kun Gai