arXiv:2604. 00626v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As Large Language Models continue to grow in both capability and cost, transferring frontier capabilities into smaller, deployable students has become an important engineering problem, and knowledge distillation remains a common technique for this transfer.
By Mingyang Song, Mao Zheng
arXiv:2607. 28076v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) is effective for training large language model agents.
By Binbin Zheng, Zijun Xie, Guanqun Zhao, Enlei Gong, Xing Ma, Xiaoliang Fu, Zeyu Chen
arXiv:2602. 22495v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training has recently driven major gains in long chain-of-thought reasoning large language models (LLMs), but the high inference cost of such models motivates distillation into smaller students.
By Zhaoyang Zhang, Shuli Jiang, Yantao Shen, Yuting Zhang, Dhananjay Ram, Shuo Yang, Zhuowen Tu, Wei Xia, Stefano Soatto
arXiv:2607. 24280v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic search enables large language models to solve knowledge-intensive tasks by interleaving multi-step reasoning with retrieval, yet optimizing this with outcome-based reinforcement learning (RL) provides only sparse supervision.
By Junlin Liu, Jiangwang Chen, Zixin Song, Shuaiyu Zhou, Chunji Lv, Hank Wu, Kailin Jiang, Jinyang Wu, Bohan Yu, Chenxi Zhou
arXiv:2606. 30044v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A key step toward artificial general intelligence is to train models that can perform multiple tasks.
By Huaijie Wang, Shusheng Xu, Yi Wu, Kaifeng Lyu
The paper introduces the Agentic Compositional Generalization hypothesis, suggesting that reinforcement learning (RL) primarily refines high‑level decision‑making behaviors that orchestrate pre‑trained low‑level skills, rather than teaching new domain‑specific skills from scratch. It proposes River, a training recipe that enhances reward quality by filtering low‑quality synthetic environments and adding process‑level behavior regularization. Using River, RL‑trained agents outperform other open‑source 8B models on four terminal‑agent benchmarks, achieving significant gains with fewer than 30% of the training environments.
By Yihang Yao, Bo Pang, Xuan Phi Nguyen, Ding Zhao, Shafiq Joty, Semih Yavuz