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.
By Haozhe Jiang, Haiwen Feng, Pieter Abbeel, Jiantao Jiao, Angjoo Kanazawa, Nika Haghtalab
arXiv:2606. 09821v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a key component of post-training large language models (LLMs).
By Jiarui Yao, Xiangxin Zhou, Penghui Qi, Wee Sun Lee, Liefeng Bo, Tianyu Pang
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: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: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:2602. 04879v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a cornerstone for fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs), with Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) serving as the de facto standard algorithm.
By Penghui Qi, Xiangxin Zhou, Zichen Liu, Tianyu Pang, Chao Du, Min Lin, Wee Sun Lee
arXiv:2607. 07693v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for aligning generative models with human preferences.
By Eric Zhu, Abhinav Shrivastava, Soumik Mukhopadhyay
arXiv:2605. 25638v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Policy loss estimation remains a fundamental and long-standing challenge in reinforcement learning (RL) for diffusion language models (DLMs).
By Qi He, Huan Chen, Ya Guo, Huijia Zhu, Yi R. Fung, Baojian Zhou
arXiv:2603. 00963v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While reinforcement learning (RL) has been central to the recent success of large language models (LLMs), RL optimization is notoriously unstable, especially when compared to supervised fine-tuning (SFT).
By Hongzhan Chen, Tao Yang, Yuhua Zhu, Shiping Gao, Xiaojun Quan, Ting Yao
arXiv:2606. 06712v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study the transformation of autoregressive models (ARLMs) into diffusion language models (DLMs).
By Xingyu Su, Jacob Helwig, Shubham Parashar, Atharv Chagi, Lakshmi Jotsna, Degui Zhi, James Caverlee, Dileep Kalathil, Shuiwang Ji
arXiv:2606. 15048v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models are typically trained with objectives that focus on local denoising targets at individual time steps (or adjacent pairs), which do not enforce consistency between predictions along the denoising trajectory.
By Qizhen Ying, Yangchen Pan, Victor Adrian Prisacariu, Junfeng Wen
arXiv:2606. 10825v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion policies (DPs) have emerged as expressive policy representations for robot learning, often used with imitation learning methods such as behavioral cloning (BC).
By Zakariae El Asri, Philippe Gratias-Quiquandon, Nicolas Thome, Olivier Sigaud