arXiv:2604. 17415v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reward-based fine-tuning steers a pretrained diffusion or flow-based generative model toward higher-reward samples while remaining close to the pretrained model.
By Jeongjae Lee, Jinho Chang, Jeongsol Kim, Jong Chul Ye
arXiv:2510. 11194v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Personalized alignment is crucial for enabling Large Language Models (LLMs) to engage effectively in user-centric interactions.
By Peiming Li, Zhiyuan Hu, Yang Tang, Shiyu Li, Xi Chen
The paper introduces Personalized Group Relative Policy Optimization (P‑GRPO), a new alignment framework for large language models that separates advantage estimation from immediate batch statistics. By normalizing advantages using preference‑group‑specific reward histories instead of the concurrent generation group, P‑GRPO maintains contrastive signals for distinct user preferences. Experiments across various tasks show that P‑GRPO converges faster and yields higher rewards than standard GRPO, improving alignment with heterogeneous human preferences while preserving general capabilities.
By Jialu Wang, Heinrich Peters, Asad A. Butt, Navid Hashemi, Alireza Hashemi, Pouya M. Ghari, Joseph Hoover, James Rae, Morteza Dehghani
The paper introduces Stackelberg Alignment, a leader‑follower framework that lets a pool of language models collaborate and improve by learning from each other’s responses. An EXP3 bandit leader adaptively selects instructions based on difficulty and discriminability, while the models act as followers, evaluating peers and learning via DPO or GRPO with Elo‑style reputation weighting and opponent matching. Experiments on diverse benchmarks show that this adaptive curriculum outperforms static baselines by up to 12‑25% and improves multi‑LLM evolution.
By Christina Hahn, Shangbin Feng, Dean Light, Swastik Roy, Hila Gonen, Yulia Tsvetkov
arXiv:2606. 09078v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Process Reward Models (PRMs) improve credit assignment for reasoning by providing step-level feedback.
By Aakriti Agrawal, Souradip Chakraborty, Armin Saghafian, Nihal Sharma, Rizal Fathony, Nam H Nguyen, C. Bayan Bruss, Amrit Singh Bedi, Furong Huang
arXiv:2606. 09124v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has enabled progress on reasoning-intensive tasks by relying on task-specific verifiers that provide automated correctness signals.
By Suhwan Kim, Taehyun Cho, Geon-Hyeong Kim, Yu Jin Kim, Youngsoo Jang, Moontae Lee, Jungwoo Lee