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 2

Risk-Aware Decision-Making for Autonomous Overtaking: A World Model-Based Mixture-of-Experts Framework

The paper introduces WM‑RMoE, a World Model‑based Risk‑aware Mixture‑of‑Experts framework for autonomous overtaking. It uses a learned latent dynamics model to perform multi‑step rollouts, evaluating cumulative risk at the trajectory level, and employs a hierarchical gating mechanism to coordinate long‑, short‑horizon, and rule‑based safety experts. A Gaussian Mixture Model preserves multimodal maneuver branches, improving robustness and preventing behavioral averaging, leading to better safety compliance, decision stability, and generalization in experiments.

By Yongzhi Liu, Sunan Zhang, Jinchang Xu, Jiawei Wang, Yushu Qiu, Chen Lv, Weichao Zhuang
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Neurosymbolics for Data Engineering: Achieving Long Context Token Reduction Without Finetuning

Neurosymbolics for Data Engineering introduces a neurosymbolic layer that can be added to existing LLM backbones to improve logical reasoning and reduce long‑context token usage. The layer boosts accuracy by an average of 85% on benchmarks such as BIRD‑CRITIC and LiveSQLBench without any task‑specific finetuning or RLHF. It also cuts effective token usage by over 50% and lowers time complexity from O(n²) to roughly O(n) for long‑context tasks.

By Vishvesh Bhat
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Bandits in Prod: Hyperparameter Optimization at Inference Time

The paper introduces Online Hyperparameter Optimization (OHPO), framing it as an infinitely many‑armed bandit problem over mixed and conditional search spaces. It proposes the IMABO framework, which couples any bandit policy with any oracle for proposing new configurations, and presents IMOSS—a restart‑free anytime policy with provable regret bounds. Experiments show that IMABO, combined with practical oracles such as TPE, an incumbent‑mutation oracle, and a pretrained tabular foundation model, outperforms random search across a range of settings from classical ML models to LLM‑based agents.

By Louis Abraham, Tuan-Anh Nguyen, Nicolas Devatine
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 1

DreamX-Creator: Democratizing Native Audio-Video Generation at 2K Resolution

arXiv:2608.31106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent video generators often omit audio or synthesize it in a separate stage, limiting reciprocal modeling of visual dynamics and acoustic events. We...

By Jiashu Zhu, Yanhao Zheng, Ruitian Tian, Rujing Dang, Shen Zhang, Bingze Song, Jiachen Lei, Ruimin Lin, Jiahong Wu, Xiangxiang Chu
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1

SciOrch: Learning to Orchestrate Expert LLMs for Solving Frontier Multimodal Scientific Reasoning Tasks

arXiv:2606.15872v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Frontier scientific reasoning remains a major challenge for large language models (LLMs), where even the strongest commercial systems fall short of...

By Jingru Guo, Xiangyuan Xue, Lian Zhang, Wanghan Xu, Siki Chen, Philip Torr, Wanli Ouyang, Lei Bai, Zhenfei Yin
arXiv AI
Sep 1

An Agentic Retrobiosynthesis Framework with Learned Frontier Selection

The paper presents an agentic retrobiosynthesis framework that uses a learned frontier selection policy to guide multistep retrosynthesis in a deterministic biochemical engine. By fine‑tuning a Qwen2.5‑7B policy with LoRA, the authors achieve higher solve rates than traditional MCTS across several benchmarks, demonstrating that route‑supervised frontier selection can improve search efficiency without changing the underlying reaction model.

By Philippe Meyer, Guillaume Gricourt, Thomas Duigou, Joan H\'erisson, Jean-Loup Faulon