arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 24

Annotations as Rollouts: Efficient and Scalable Reinforcement Learning for Video MLLMs

The paper introduces OraRL, a reinforcement learning framework that leverages annotations as oracle rollouts to improve sample efficiency and scalability for video multimodal large language models (MLLMs). By decoupling advantage estimation and employing sign‑balanced pruning, OraRL achieves faster training and better performance across multiple video‑perception benchmarks compared to existing methods. The approach scales from 0.8B to 9B parameters and handles up to 100k prompts, delivering significant gains in temporal mIoU, tracking accuracy, segmentation, and spatial‑intelligence metrics.

By Yunheng Li, Guohong Mu, Hao Li, Shengsheng Qian, Dingwen Zhang, Qibin Hou, Ming-Ming Cheng
arXiv AI
Jul 24

TOPReward: Token Probabilities as Hidden Zero-Shot Rewards for Robotics

arXiv:2602. 19313v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: General-purpose robot learning requires dense, instruction-conditioned feedback that can distinguish meaningful task progress from stalled, failed, or partially completed behavior.

By Shirui Chen, Cole Harrison, Ying-Chun Lee, Angela Jin Yang, Zhongzheng Ren, Lillian J. Ratliff, Jiafei Duan, Dieter Fox, Ranjay Krishna
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 23

Video-HopChain: Multi-Hop Questions and Confidence-Gated Exploration for Video Reasoning Models

Video-HopChain introduces a new dataset of 22,550 multi‑hop video questions over 13,378 videos, each question consisting of three to six yes/no sub‑questions whose integer answers sum to a verifiable reward. Training a Qwen3‑VL‑8B model with GRPO on this dataset improves performance across eight video‑understanding benchmarks from 55.4 to 57.9, and the addition of Confidence‑Gated Exploration (CGE) raises the mean to 59.3. The authors release the dataset, checkpoint, and training code for further research.

By Trung Nguyen Quang, Yuhao Dong, Shuo Sun, Shuai Liu, Shulin Tian, Kim-Hui Yap, Ziwei Liu
arXiv AI
6d ago

Stepwise Intrinsic Rewards for Reasoning in Large Language Models

The paper introduces Stepwise Marginal Information Gain (MIG), an intrinsic process reward that evaluates how each reasoning step of a large language model (LLM) or vision-language model (VLM) improves the likelihood of the reference answer. MIG rewards only new likelihood maxima, preventing duplicate credit, and is combined with outcome, format, and self‑distillation objectives to guide training. Experiments on eight benchmarks show that this method outperforms outcome‑only reinforcement learning and improves accuracy by up to 4.8 points over binary‑reward training, including a 12.6‑point gain on MathVerse and a 12.9‑point advantage on vision‑language transfer at 7B parameters.

By Xiangwei Wang, Wei Wang, Ken Chen, Nanduni Nimalsiri, Sachith Seneviratne, Saman Halgamuge