arXiv:2503. 00539v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has evolved to be one of the main methods for fine-tuning large language models (LLMs).
By Debmalya Mandal, Paulius Sasnauskas, Goran Radanovic
arXiv:2505. 12843v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) relies on reward models to align large language models with human preferences.
By Kangwen Zhao, Jianfeng Cai, Jinhua Zhu, Ruopei Sun, Dongyun Xue, Wengang Zhou, Li Li, Houqiang Li
arXiv:2606. 19818v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) aligns large language models by training reward models on preference data and optimizing policies to maximize predicted rewards.
By Licheng Pan, Haocheng Yang, Haoxuan Li, Yichen Sun, Yunsheng Lu, Shijian Wang, Lei Shen, Yuan Lu, Zhixuan Chu, Hao Wang
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.
By Saket Reddy, Ke Yang, ChengXiang Zhai
arXiv:2607. 04713v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning holds significant potential for training large language models (LLMs) to handle multi-turn interactive tasks.
By Qiang Liu, Taian Guo, Ruizhi Qiao, Xing Sun
arXiv:2602. 18037v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) or Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) are two key steps in the post-training of modern Language Models (LMs).
By Johannes Ackermann, Michael Noukhovitch, Takashi Ishida, Masashi Sugiyama
arXiv:2608. 00175v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep reinforcement learning (RL) agents achieve strong performance by optimizing scalar reward functions.
By Umer Siddique, Peilang Li, Conor Wallace, Yongcan Cao
arXiv:2608. 08158v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse, delayed, and weakly informative rewards remain central obstacles to efficient reinforcement learning.
By Fouad Bahrpeyma
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.
By Ruiming Liang, Yi Zhong, Yizhen Yuan, Yinan Zheng, Tianyi Tan, Tianyue Wang, Haiyun Guo, Jinqiao Wang, Xianyuan Zhan
arXiv:2602. 21492v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a central post-training paradigm for large language models (LLMs), but its performance is highly sensitive to the quality of training problems.
By Ningyuan Yang, Weihua Du, Weiwei Sun, Sean Welleck, Yiming Yang
arXiv:2606. 06673v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sparse rewards and heterogeneous task sequences remain persistent challenges in Reinforcement Learning (RL), often resulting in slow convergence, weak generalization, and inefficient exploration.
By Ujjwal Bhatta, Utsabi Dangol, Sumaly Bajracharya, Rodrigue Rizk, KC Santosh
arXiv:2511. 23310v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged as an effective paradigm for post-training large language models, yet the design of its baselines and learning-rate schedules remains largely heuristic.
By Zixun Huang, Jiayi Sheng, Zeyu Zheng