Reinforcement learning

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

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arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 17

Models Can Model, But Can't Bind: Structured Grounding in Text-to-Optimization

arXiv:2605. 21751v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Text-to-optimization requires two separable capabilities: modeling -- choosing the right optimization structure -- and binding -- grounding every coefficient, index, and parameter in the concrete problem data.

By Zhiqi Gao, Albert Ge, Alexander Berenbeim, Nathaniel D. Bastian, Frederic Sala
arXiv AI
Jul 17

Fully Offline Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2505. 22442v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Offline RL (ORL) promises safe and sample-efficient deployment but existing methods rely on undocumented online interactions for hyperparameter tuning and lack reliable fully offline estimates of initial online performance.

By Mattie Fellows, Clarisse Wibault, Uljad Berdica, Johannes Forkel, Maike Osborne, Jakob N. Foerster
arXiv AI
Jul 17

Multi-Axis Max@K Reinforcement Learning for Representative Diversity in Text-to-Image Generation

arXiv:2607. 14962v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-image (T2I) models can synthesize realistic, prompt-aligned images, yet samples generated for the same prompt often cover only a small subset of visually distinct modes.

By Ku Onoda, Paavo Parmas, Hiroki Furuta, Soichiro Nishimori, Yuta Oshima, Shohei Taniguchi, Yutaka Matsuo
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 17

Long-term User Engagement Optimization through Model-agnostic Downstream Rewards Learning

arXiv:2607. 14192v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As recommender systems mature in the past few years, their optimization objectives have evolved from a primary focusing on short-term behavioral signals to a broader emphasis on long-term user engagement and retention.

By Dingsu Wang, Filip Ryzner, Kelly He, Armando Ordorica, David Woo, Aditya Mantha, Liyao Lu, Usha Amrutha Nookala, Haoran Guo, Jiacong He, Olafur Gudmundsson, Matt Chun, Krystal Benitez, Dhruvil Deven Badani, Yijie Dylan Wang
arXiv AI
Jul 17

Stop Thinking, Start Looking: Efficient Post-Training for Multimodal Document Question Answering via Reasoning-Free Alignment

arXiv:2607. 14682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient multimodal document question answering with explicit visual grounding, locating the precise document region that supports each answer remains an open challenge.

By Harikrishnan P M, Goutham Vignesh, Ganesh Parab, Saisubramaniam Gopalakrishnan, Vishal Vaddina, Varun V, Rohit Agrawal