Reinforcement learning

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

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arXiv AI
Jul 21

RobustVLA: On Robustness of Vision-Language-Action Model against Multi-Modal Perturbations

arXiv:2510. 00037v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In Vision-Language-Actionf(VLA) models, robustness to real-world perturbations is critical for deployment.

By Jianing Guo, Zhenhong Wu, Chang Tu, Yiyao Ma, Xiangqi Kong, Zhiqian Liu, Jiaming Ji, Shuning Zhang, Yuanpei Chen, Kai Chen, Qi Dou, Yaodong Yang, Xianglong Liu, Huijie Zhao, Weifeng Lv, Simin Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 21

CORAL: Learning Amyloid Fibril Ligand Docking with Cooperative Binding Rewards

arXiv:2607. 17412v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A hallmark of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's is the aberrant aggregation of proteins into amyloid fibrils, and small molecules that selectively bind to these fibrils hold promise as diagnostics, imaging probes, and therapeutics.

By Yasheng Sun, Bohan Li, Youqi Tao, J\"urgen Schmidhuber
arXiv AI
Jul 21

A Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithm for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Stochastic Demands and Outsourcing

arXiv:2607. 16875v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce the vehicle routing problem with stochastic demands and outsourcing options (VRP-SDO), in which a logistics service provider partitions customer requests into customers outsourced to a common carrier and customers committed to its fixed fleet.

By Mohsen Dastpak, Fausto Errico, Ola Jabali
arXiv AI
Jul 21

A Hardware-oriented Approach for Efficient Bayesian Inference Computation and Deployment

arXiv:2607. 17855v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Bayesian inference provides a principled foundation for reasoning under uncertainty, but its computational cost hinders deployment on resource-constrained edge devices.

By Nikola Pi\v{z}urica, Matteo Risso, Nikola Milovi\'c, Alessio Burrello, Igor Jovan\v{c}evi\'c, Conor Heins, Miguel de Prado
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 21

Implicit Actor Critic Coupling via a Supervised Learning Framework for RLVR

arXiv:2509. 02522v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) have empowered large language models (LLMs) to tackle challenging reasoning tasks such as mathematics and programming, however existing RLVR methods often suffer from sparse reward signals and unstable policy gradient updates inherent to RL-based approaches.

By Jiaming Li, Longze Chen, Ze Gong, Yukun Chen, Lu Wang, Wanwei He, Run Luo, Min Yang
arXiv AI
Jul 21

Omni-Perception Policy Optimization for Multimodal Emotion Reasoning

arXiv:2606. 25325v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We find that current emotion-oriented Omni-MLLMs still lack reliable omni-modal perception: they (i) underutilize multimodal cues in their reasoning trajectories and (ii) exhibit unfaithful behavior, often hallucinating modality-specific statements from other modalities.

By Zhiyuan Han, Beier Zhu, Wenwen Tong, Pengyang Shao, Peipei Song, Xinyi Wang, Jiangnan Chen, Lewei Lu, Xun Yang
arXiv AI
Jul 21

PPO-HSC: An Exploratory Reinforcement Learning Framework Based on Wide-Area Policy Coverage Optimization

arXiv:2607. 16206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper introduces PPO-HSC (Proximal Policy Optimization with High-order Sampling Coverage), an exploratory reinforcement learning framework designed to address the "Invisible Shackles" of mode collapse in Large Language Model (LLM) fine-tuning.

By Yujie Shen, Haowen Chen
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 21

Reinforcement Learning-Guided NSGA-II Enhanced with Gray Relational Coefficient for Multi-Objective Optimization: Application to NASDAQ Portfolio Optimization

arXiv:2607. 16194v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In modern financial markets, decision-makers increasingly rely on quantitative methods to navigate complex trade-offs among multiple, often conflicting objectives.

By Zhiyuan Wang, Qinxu Ding, Ding Ding, Siying Zhu, Jing Ren, Yue Wang, Chong Hui Tan
arXiv AI
Jul 21

Learning-Driven Adaptive Audit Scheduling: A Sequential Decision Approach to Off-Chain Data Integrity

arXiv:2607. 17305v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We model cryptographic auditing of off-chain data as a Constrained MDP (CMDP) under partial observability: the storage node's hidden type and corruption state make the problem a POMDP, while a miss-rate ceiling rho imposes an explicit security constraint.

By Changting Lin, Fan Li, Weihang Yu, Keyang He, Mingyuan Yan, Yourong Chen, Meng Han
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 21

DORA: A Scalable Asynchronous Reinforcement Learning System for Language Model Training

arXiv:2604. 26256v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a critical paradigm for LLM post-training, yet the rollout phase -- accounting for 50--80% of total step time -- is bottlenecked by skewed generation: long-tailed trajectories indispensable for model performance block the entire training pipeline.

By Tianhao Hu, Xiangcheng Liu, Yuchun Miao, Youshao Xiao, Hongyu Zang, Yang Zheng, Xuan Huang, Jinrui Ding, Yufei Zhang, Yu Yang, Yi-Kai Zhang, Yueqing Sun, Chengcheng Han, Xiandi Ma, Wei Wang, Qi Gu, Yerui Sun, Yuchen Xie, Xunliang Cai