Reinforcement learning

Policy optimisation, reward modelling and RLHF — how models are trained by feedback rather than by labels.

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arXiv AI
Sep 15

CHAI for LLMs: Improving Code-Mixed Translation in Large Language Models through Reinforcement Learning with AI Feedback

CHAI for LLMs is a framework that improves large language models’ performance on code‑mixed translation tasks by using LLMs as annotators to create preference data, applying reinforcement learning from AI feedback, incorporating LLM‑generated domain knowledge for iterative refinement, and evaluating on real‑world datasets. The approach yields a 68.45% average win rate over state‑of‑the‑art open‑source models in human‑adjudicated tests. It demonstrates a scalable method to enhance code‑mixed language understanding in open‑source LLMs.

By Wenbo Zhang, Aditya Majumdar, Asif Ekbal, Amulya Yadav
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 15

Learning to Solve Stochastic Controls with Unknown Drifts and Running Rewards: Theory, Algorithms and Convergence

The paper investigates continuous‑time stochastic control problems with unknown drift and running reward functions, using an exploratory reinforcement learning framework that incorporates relaxed controls and entropy regularization. It develops policy‑iteration algorithms based on probabilistic representations of the optimal value function and its gradient, proving convergence and demonstrating performance through numerical examples. The study also extends to a special case with control‑dependent diffusion, requiring a Hessian representation.

By Jin Ma, Gaozhan Wang, Jianfeng Zhang, Xunyu Zhou
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
arXiv AI
Sep 15

TimeThink: Eliciting Compositional Reasoning in Timeseries Large Language Models

arXiv:2609.13457v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Timeseries multimodal large language models (TS-MLLMs) have recently begun leveraging the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) for qu...

By Sudarshan Regmi, Arvind Pillai, Yu Yvonne Wu, Yuliang Chen, Bibek Panthi, Tess Z. Griffin, Michael V. Heinz, Lisa Marsch, Nicholas C. Jacobson, Andrew Campbell
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 15

North Small Translate: Advanced Cost-Effective Translation (Cohere CAT+)

arXiv:2609.13916v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present North Small Translate, an open-weight, LLM-based machine translation (MT) model with instruction-following capabilities built on the same fo...

By Tom Kocmi, Alexandre B\'erard, Phil Blunsom, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Shaun Cassini, Nicholas Frosst, Ona de Gibert, Aidan Gomez, Nithya Govindarajan, Shun Kiyono, Olivia Lasche, Lawrence Rogers, Kelly Marchisio, Nikita Moghe, Yash More, Camila Moran-Hidalgo, Yiyang Nan, Michael Sachs, Trisha Starostina, Daan van Stigt, Spencer Rarrick, Sebastian Vincent, Ivan Zhang
arXiv AI
Sep 15

BlueLM-GUI Technical Report: A Real-Device-Centric Flywheel for Self-Improving Mobile GUI Agents

arXiv:2609.12394v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Mobile GUI agents are shifting from multi-module frameworks to native models trained end-to-end, yet industrial deployment faces three persistent g...

By Tong Ye, Kunyang Han, Guozhi Wang, Longqiang Luo, Zhifeng Ding, Yongxiang Zhang, Xiaolei Shen, Yuxuan Zhang, Zhuping Zhang, Tao Xu, Yue Pan, Yucheng Zhao, Yupei Hu, Yuanjiang Ouyang, Danfeng Shen, Runqi Lin, Hongda Cai, Zhaoxiong Wang, Mengjia Yan, Yingjie Zhong, Chen Zhou, Zeyu Zhang, Xuwen Zhu, Penggang Shi, Mingcheng Luo, Ziyang Wu, Min Jin, Mingfu Shen, Zairong Xu, Fan Zhang, Hao Wang, Liang Liu, Zhulin Xie, Lijun Yao, Xiao Liang, Liangmin Wen, Liqiang Feng, Feilong Wu, Min Hu, Min Chen, Guanjing Xiong, Xiaohu Ruan, Xiaoxin Chen
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 15

Optimizing Sparse Outcomes Through Dense Behavioral Signals via Value-Guided Preference Distillation

arXiv:2609.14648v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Aligning multi-turn dialogue agents is usually framed as matching turn-level human preferences, yet direct optimization of long-term outcomes is often...

By Ziyi Zhu, Daniel R. Cahn, Thomas D. Hull, Caitlin A. Stamatis, Olivier Tieleman, Guilherme B. Freire, Jinghong Chen
arXiv AI
Sep 15

CodeTS: Verifiable Text-to-Time Series Generation via Executable Code

CodeTS introduces a verifiable framework for generating time series from natural language by translating textual temporal descriptions into executable code, which then produces the desired series. The approach constructs aligned Text‑Code‑TS triplets for supervised initialization and employs multi‑stage execution‑based rewards to ensure code validity and time‑series quality. Experiments on eight benchmarks show that CodeTS outperforms both LLM‑based and supervised generative baselines, offering a strong zero‑shot solution for Text‑to‑TS generation.

By Xudong Yuan, Shunyu Liu, Tongya Zheng, Huiping Zhuang, Mingli Song, Kaixuan Chen
arXiv AI
Sep 15

Task-Based CT Protocol Optimization Using Reinforcement Learning and Virtual Imaging Trials

The study presents a virtual imaging trial framework that uses reinforcement learning to optimize computed tomography (CT) protocols, balancing liver lesion detectability against radiation dose. By training a Proximal Policy Optimization agent on 63 computational human models across 468 parameter combinations, the authors demonstrate that evaluating only eight protocols per patient—about 2% of exhaustive testing—recovers 98.2% of the optimal objective. Conditioning the agent on patient‑specific CT localizer embeddings further improves zero‑simulation recovery by 10.7 percentage points compared to a localizer‑blind policy.

By Jiaqi Zou, David Fenwick, Vahid Tarokh, Nicholas Felice, Jayasai Rajagopal, Anuj Kapadia, Ehsan Samei, Navid NaderiAlizadeh, Ehsan Abadi