arXiv AI
Jun 3

Exploiting Verification-Generation Gap: Test-Time Reinforcement Learning with Confidence-Conditioned Verification

arXiv:2606. 03608v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Test-time reinforcement learning has emerged as a promising paradigm for enhancing the complex reasoning abilities of large language models in a completely label-free manner.

By Jiahui Li, Jianfeng Shan, Wenpei Chen, Shunyu Wu, Jian Lou, Wenjie Feng, Dan Li, See-Kiong Ng
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 8

Leveraging Error Diversity in Group Rollouts for Reinforcement Learning

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 AI
Oct 5

Test-time Calibration Learning for Large Language Model Reasoning

The paper introduces Test-Time Calibration Learning (TTCL), a label‑free framework that adapts both reasoning accuracy and verbalized confidence of large language models directly on unlabeled target‑task data. TTCL generates self‑supervision signals from multiple model responses, enabling calibration without ground‑truth labels and proving theoretically as a bounded surrogate for the ideal calibration objective. Experiments on mathematical reasoning and factual question answering show consistent improvements, with base models gaining an average 40.13% in accuracy and 70.80% in ECE reduction across eight benchmarks, and further gains under domain shift.

By Zizhuo Zhang, Xiong Peng, Jingwei Sun, Rong Yao, Shixiong Kai, Mingxuan Yuan, Bo Han
arXiv AI
Oct 2

Your Language Model is Its Own Critic: Reinforcement Learning with Value Estimation from Actor's Internal States

The paper introduces POISE, a reinforcement learning algorithm that uses a model’s internal states as a value estimator to reduce variance in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR). By employing a lightweight probe that reads internal signals during the forward pass, POISE predicts baselines online and uses a cross‑rollout construction to keep gradients unbiased. Experiments on Qwen3‑4B and OLMo3‑7B‑Instruct‑DPO across six domains show POISE outperforms existing RLVR baselines, offering more stable training and a value model that generalizes across tasks and scales with the policy.

By Yunho Choi, Jongwon Lim, Woojin Ahn, Minjae Oh, Jeonghoon Shim, Yohan Jo
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 15

Harnessing Image Question Dependence for Better VLM Test-time Reinforcement Learning

The paper introduces TTIQ, a test‑time reinforcement learning framework that improves vision‑language model (VLM) adaptation by explicitly measuring image‑question dependence. By teacher‑forcing responses on the original and ablated image‑question pairs, TTIQ derives token‑level likelihood changes to estimate how much each input contributes, then uses these signals to construct a reward that favors jointly grounded, confident responses. Experiments on eight VQA datasets and various VLM sizes show that TTIQ consistently outperforms prior consensus‑based methods and generalizes across model families and unseen datasets.

By Xinrui He, Ting-Wei Li, Junting Wang, Mengting Ai, Xinyu He, Hanghang Tong, Jingrui He