arXiv Machine Learning

DiPOD: Diffusion Policy Optimization without Drifting Apart

arXiv:2606. 13795v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: RL post-training has become increasingly pivotal for improving diffusion policies, but existing diffusion policy-gradient methods are often unstable and cannot achieve reliable policy improvement.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

Extreme Region Policy Distillation

arXiv:2605. 25582v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning for large language models faces a fundamental trade-off between sample efficiency and asymptotic performance: strictly on-policy methods discard trajectories after a single update, while off-policy reuse introduces distribution mismatch that existing trust-region techniques mitigate primarily by enforcing conservative optimization, often leaving rich training signals underutilized.

By Changyu Chen, Xiting Wang, Rui Yan
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 20

Dichotomous Diffusion Policy Optimization

arXiv:2601. 00898v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion-based policies have gained growing popularity in solving a wide range of decision-making tasks due to their superior expressiveness and controllable generation during inference.

By Ruiming Liang, Yinan Zheng, Kexin Zheng, Tianyi Tan, Jianxiong Li, Liyuan Mao, Zhihao Wang, Guang Chen, Hangjun Ye, Jingjing Liu, Jinqiao Wang, Xianyuan Zhan
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 4

Self-Distilled Policy Gradient

arXiv:2606. 04036v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: On-policy self-distillation, where a language model conditions on privileged context to supervise its own generations, is a promising source of dense supervision for sparse-reward reinforcement learning.

By Yifeng Liu, Shiyuan Zhang, Yifan Zhang, Quanquan Gu
arXiv AI
Jun 30

DRIFT: Difficulty Routing Self-DIstillation with Rhythm-Gated Exploration and Success BuFfer Training

arXiv:2606. 30345v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Enabling large language models to achieve stable self-improvement without external expert supervision remains a central challenge in complex reasoning tasks.

By Haisen Luo, Yiwei Liu, Haoning Wang, Dan Liu, Junxi Yin, Haotian Wang, Lei Zhang, Xiaoyu Tian, Shuaiting Chen, Yuansheng Song, Baoyan Guo, Xiongfei Yan, Bolan Yang, Chengwei Liu, Ming Cui, Jiong Chen