arXiv:2608. 09435v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding dynamic sound sources requires jointly determining what produces a sound, where the source is located, and how it moves over time.
By Zhi Zeng, Cheng Zhang, Zesheng Yang, Rendong Pi, Jiaying Wu, Di Zhang, Zihan Ma, Guodong Li, Zhou Yang, Yu Xiang, Yifei Zheng, Minnan Luo
arXiv:2411. 01302v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study the convergence of $q$-learning and related algorithms introduced by Jia and Zhou (J.
By Wenpin Tang, Xun Yu Zhou
arXiv:2608. 08604v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is a powerful framework for solving complex collaborative tasks, but it relies heavily on well-defined global reward functions.
By Ni Mu, Yao Luan, Yiqin Yang, Qing-Shan Jia
arXiv:2608. 09226v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Efficient text-to-image generation requires both reinforcement-learning (RL)-based reward alignment and few-step distillation, yet these procedures are typically performed sequentially, increasing training cost and risking the loss of reward gains during compression.
By Yuhan Li, Fangao Zeng, Sicong Kang, Mengfei Xu, Hao Zhou, Wei Li, Pipei Huang, Bingbing Ni
arXiv:2608. 07547v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Indoor scene layout generation is a challenging task in interior design.
By Yuhao Lu, Weichen Zhang, Wenyi Xiao, Haohui Chen, Yiyun Fei
arXiv:2608. 09128v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM agents are increasingly deployed in multi-agent social settings where they must cooperate, negotiate, and adapt to other agents.
By Keyu He, Xuhui Zhou, Maarten Sap
arXiv:2605. 00754v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reward models (RMs) have become an indispensable fixture of the language model (LM) post-training playbook, enabling policy alignment and test-time scaling.
By Indraneil Paul, Goran Glava\v{s}, Iryna Gurevych
arXiv:2608. 09119v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce Motif 3, a decoder-only Mixture-of-Experts language model with 314 billion total parameters and 13.
By Junghwan Lim, Joon Son Chung, Sungmin Lee, Wai Ting Cheung, Gihun Cho, Minsu Ha, Sangho Kang, Beomgyu Kim, Dongseok Kim, Jangwoong Kim, Taehyun Kim, Taewhan Kim, Jeesoo Lee, Jeongdoo Lee, Junhyeok Lee, Dongpin Oh, Hyeyeon Cho, Dahye Choi, Jaeheui Her, Hanbin Jung, Changjin Kang, Minjae Kim, Youngrok Kim, Hyukjin Kweon, Hongjoo Lee, Yeongjae Park, Bokki Ryu
arXiv:2608. 07870v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Improving sample efficiency remains a core challenge in reinforcement learning (RL), especially in real-world settings like robotics, where data collection is costly.
By Donghu Kim, Youngdo Lee, Hojoon Lee, Johan Obando-Ceron, Byungkun Lee, Aaron Courville, Pablo Samuel Castro, Jaegul Choo, Clare Lyle
arXiv:2608. 09138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While learned robotic policies hold promise for advancing generalizable manipulation, their practical deployment is often hindered by suboptimal execution speeds.
By David D. Yuan, Tony Z. Zhao, Kaylee Burns, Chelsea Finn
arXiv:2608. 08219v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video anomaly detection (VAD) is a critical yet challenging task due to the complex and diverse nature of real-world scenarios.
By Rui Wang, Yeteng Wu, Xianling Zhang, Mengshi Qi
arXiv:2608. 07527v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-document understanding requires models to find and combine evidence across many pages, layouts, tables, figures, and charts.
By Hongchen Wei, Yuanzhe Wang, Bei Liu, Yifan Yang, Qi Dai, Kai Qiu, Yunsheng Li, Dongdong Chen, Chong Luo, Zhenzhong Chen, Baining Guo
arXiv:2605. 12991v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: LLM-based multi-agent pipelines flip from correct to incorrect answers under simulated peer disagreement at rates we term yield, a vulnerability widely attributed to RLHF-induced sycophancy.
By Adarsh Kumarappan, Ananya Mujoo
arXiv:2608. 09217v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a central post-training paradigm for eliciting reasoning capabilities in large language models, yet uniform task sampling allocates compute without regard to differences in how tasks respond to optimization.
By Ting Zhou, Zhenqing Ling, Daoyuan Chen, Qianli Shen, Yilun Huang, Ying Shen, Yaliang Li
arXiv:2604. 23333v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Scaling test-time computation with reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a reliable path to improve large language models (LLM) reasoning ability.
By Liaoyaqi Wang, Chunsheng Zuo, William Jurayj, Benjamin Van Durme, Anqi Liu
arXiv:2608. 08255v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic reinforcement learning (RL) often suffers from delayed and sparse rewards in real-world environments.
By Yifu Huo, Shunjie Xing, Chenglong Wang, Peinan Feng, Qiaozhi He, Yan Ding, Anxiang Ma, Yuxin Gao, Tongran Liu, Tong Xiao, Jingbo Zhu
arXiv:2608. 08878v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) achieve strong performance across many tasks, but their Key-Value (KV) cache grows linearly with sequence length, creating a severe memory bottleneck for long-context inference.
By Asaad Althoubi
arXiv:2608. 08220v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The overlapping disciplines of machine ethics and value alignment are concerned with designing artificial agents that are aligned with human values and that act in ethically acceptable ways.
By Aleks Knoks, Marija Slavkovik
arXiv:2608. 09453v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On--off cycling is the main cause of compressor wear in residential heat pumps, yet reinforcement learning (RL) controllers for buildings typically optimise only energy cost and thermal comfort, ignoring how much the learned policy cycles.
By Faizan Ahmed, Aniket Dixit, James Brusey
arXiv:2603. 07313v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robustness under latent distribution shift remains challenging in partially observable reinforcement learning.
By Angad Singh Ahuja