arXiv:2506.17007v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: A major bottleneck in scientific discovery consists of narrowing an exponentially large set of objects, such as proteins or molecules, to a small s...
By Marco Jiralerspong, Esther Derman, Danilo Vucetic, Esmeralda S. Whitammer, Bilun Sun, Tianyu Zhang, Pierre-Luc Bacon, Gauthier Gidel
arXiv:2606. 17680v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for training Large Language Models (LLMs) as agents.
By Zhitong Wang, Songze Li, Hao Peng, Shuzheng Si, Yi Wang, Maosong Sun, Juanzi Li
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:2608. 19842v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic reinforcement learning (RL) has become a critical stage in the post-training of large language models.
By Dayang Liang, Lang Feng, Bo An, Yunlong Liu
The paper investigates how enrichment—adding intermediate guidance to sparse rewards in reinforcement learning—affects policy-gradient updates. It shows that omitting or truncating importance-weight corrections implicitly reweights rewards, and decomposes the resulting gradient error into scale, rotation, and variance components. The authors propose a sequential Monte Carlo weight correction that mitigates variance growth, and apply their analysis to a fine-tuned Qwen3-1.7B model on OpenMathReasoning, illustrating how enrichment helps prevent collapse in sparse domains.
By Jinwoo Kim, Shraddha Barke
arXiv:2606. 24994v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) for language-model reasoning can fail at both extremes of task difficulty: easy prompts often produce all-correct, low-diversity rollout groups with little gradient signal, while hard prompts can produce all-incorrect groups with no positive reward.
By Wenyang Hu, Junxiang Jia, Zhen Shu, Daniel Dahlmeier, See-Kiong Ng, Bryan Kian Hsiang Low
arXiv:2605. 17333v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) typically samples multiple responses per prompt and assigns binary rewards based on individual correctness, yet the collective structure of the group output, specifically the distribution of errors, is largely discarded.
By Wenpu Liu, Yuqi Xu, Weichu Xie, Yongfu Zhu, Shuai Dong, Ziyue Wang, Wenqi Shao, Xiaoying Zhang, Tong Yang, Nan Duan, Jiaqi Wang
arXiv:2608. 09805v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Exploration has been a focus of reinforcement learning research for a long time.
By Vatsal Venkatkrishna, Nico Daheim, Iryna Gurevych
arXiv:2610.02835v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: During post-training of large language models (LLMs) with Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), GRPO-style algorithms can exhibit seve...
By Qiyuan Huang, Tianshi Xu, Meng Li
Agentic reinforcement learning (RL) has become a critical stage in the post-training of large language models. Existing critic-free, group-relative methods estimate policy advantages from multiple rollouts, avoiding the substantial memory overhead of conventional proximal policy optimization (PPO) and achieving strong performance on long-horizon interactive tasks.
arXiv:2605. 07724v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recursive retraining of generative models poses a critical representation challenge: when synthetic outputs are curated based on a fixed reward signal, the model tends to collapse onto a narrow set of outputs that over-optimize that objective.
By Ali Falahati, Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri, Kate Larson, Lukasz Golab
arXiv:2606. 08815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for eliciting long-chain reasoning in large language models.
By Hao Chen, Zhanming Shen, Liyao Li, Yanyu Chen, Xuhang Zhu, Xiaomeng Hu, Qi Zhang, Ru Peng, Xiaoyu Shen, Haobo Wang, Junbo Zhao