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 7

Agentic AI-RAN: Enabling Intent-Driven, Explainable and Self-Evolving Open RAN Intelligence

arXiv:2602. 24115v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Open RAN (O-RAN) exposes rich control and telemetry interfaces across the Non-RT RIC, Near-RT RIC, and distributed units, but also makes it harder to operate multi-tenant, multi-objective RANs in a safe and auditable manner.

By Zhizhou He, Yang Luo, Xinkai Liu, Mahdi Boloursaz Mashhadi, Mohammad Shojafar, Merouane Debbah, Rahim Tafazolli
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Prior Diffusiveness and Regret in the Linear-Gaussian Bandit

arXiv:2601. 02022v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We prove that Thompson sampling exhibits $\tilde{O}(\sigma d \sqrt{T} + d r \sqrt{\mathrm{Tr}(\Sigma_0)})$ Bayesian regret in the linear-Gaussian bandit with a $\mathcal{N}(\mu_0, \Sigma_0)$ prior distribution on the coefficients, where $d$ is the dimension, $T$ is the time horizon, $r$ is the maximum $\ell_2$ norm of the actions, and $\sigma^2$ is the noise variance.

By Yifan Zhu, John C. Duchi, Benjamin Van Roy
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

When Can You Poison Rewards? A Tight Characterization of Reward Poisoning in Linear MDPs

arXiv:2604. 10062v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We study reward poisoning attacks in reinforcement learning (RL), where an adversary manipulates rewards within constrained budgets to force the target RL agent to adopt a policy that aligns with the attacker's objectives.

By Jose Efraim Aguilar Escamilla, Haoyang Hong, Jiawei Li, Haoyu Zhao, Xuezhou Zhang, Sanghyun Hong, Huazheng Wang
arXiv AI
Jul 7

Hierarchical Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Carbon-Aware AI Data Centers in Power Distribution Systems

arXiv:2607. 03324v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Eco-friendly energy management for artificial intelligence data centers (AIDCs) is crucial because of the significant increase in energy consumption-induced carbon emissions from AIDCs resulting from the rapid expansion of AI applications.

By Hyunsoo Lee, Panggah Prabawa, Dae-Hyun Choi, Joongheon Kim
arXiv AI
Jul 7

Unified Audio Intelligence Without Regressing on Text Intelligence

arXiv:2607. 05196v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio intelligence involves understanding, reasoning about, and generating both audio and speech.

By Zhifeng Kong, Sang-gil Lee, Jaehyeon Kim, Boxin Wang, Zihan Liu, Sungwon Kim, Yang Chen, Arushi Goel, Rajarshi Roy, Wenliang Dai, Zhuolin Yang, Yangyi Chen, Dongfu Jiang, Sreyan Ghosh, Tuomas Rintamaki, Andrew Tao, Jonathan Raiman, Mohammad Shoeybi, Bryan Catanzaro, Wei Ping
arXiv AI
Jul 7

VideoSearcher: Empowering Video Deep Research with Multi-Tool Agentic Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2607. 02927v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video understanding is moving beyond closed-context perception toward open-world evidence exploration, a paradigm formalized as Video Deep Research (VDR).

By Zhenkun Gao, Yicheng Bao, Jinlong Peng, Xueheng Li, Theo Huang, Bangwei Liu, Kunquan Li, Zhenye Gan, Tao Hu, Chengjun Xie, Mingqian Yang, Xuanhua He, Zhizhong Zhang, Xin Tan, Chengjie Wang, Yuan Xie
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Coverage-Controlled Preference Mining from Noisy Claim Verification for Evidence-Grounded Generation

arXiv:2603. 10494v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Evidence-grounded generation produces summaries whose claims should be supported by supplied evidence, but claim-level verifiers provide noisy feedback and can reward models that simply say less.

By Weixin Liu, Congning Ni, Qingyuan Song, Susannah L. Rose, Murat Kantarcioglu, Bradley A. Malin, Zhijun Yin
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Understanding electricity consumption behaviour through Inverse Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2607. 03176v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding how households consume electricity in response to socioeconomic and climatic drivers is important for decision-makers designing energy policies in a changing climate and under geopolitical tensions.

By Enrico Cofler, Carlos Rodriguez-Pardo, Matteo Giuliani, Andrea Castelletti, Massimo Tavoni