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
Jun 9

ConSteer-RL: Steering Reasoning Capabilities in Large Language Models via Confidence-Aware Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606. 08088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has recently become a key paradigm for improving the reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet it remains limited by sparse binary rewards and its ignorance of model-internal uncertainty.

By Qing Miao, Yiming Zhao, Jing Yang, Chenxi Liu, Yuehai Chen, Yuewen Liu, Shaoyi Du, Badong Chen
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Training-Inference Kernel Contracts: Bounding Divergence in Post-Training and Deployment

arXiv:2606. 07581v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A modern post-training pipeline often writes one symbol for its policy, pi_theta, while evaluating it through two different programs: a training kernel optimized for autograd and an inference kernel optimized for low-precision, fused, dynamically batched serving.

By Bruce Changlong Xu, Lan Wu
arXiv AI
Jun 9

MatMind: A Structure-Activity Knowledge-Driven Generative Foundation Model for Materials Science

arXiv:2606. 07712v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Progress in AI-driven crystal materials science has so far been carried by narrow architectures purpose-built for individual tasks -- graph neural networks for property prediction, diffusion and flow-matching models for crystal generation -- each excelling within its niche yet unable to act as a shared backbone across the full spectrum of materials problems.

By Zhan'ao Yao, Boxuan Zhang, Jingyuan Shu, Xiaoyu Wu, Rongyan Wang, Linjing Li, Dajun Zeng, Yudong Yao, Tingwei Chen, Youwei Wang, Xiaolin Zhao, Jiahui Shi, Jianjun Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

TinyJudge: Unverifiable Constraint Alignment via Lightweight Specialist Ensembles

arXiv:2606. 07520v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Instruction Following (IF) is a core capability of LLMs, requiring strict adherence to diverse constraints, ranging from verifiable ones (e.

By Yirong Zeng, Yufei Liu, Xiao Ding, Yutai Hou, Yuxian Wang, Wu Ning, Haonan Song, Dandan Tu, Qixun Zhang, Yuxiang He, Bibo Cai, Ting Liu
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Baichuan-M4: A Clinical-Grade Medical Agent System for Continuous Care

arXiv:2606. 08982v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Baichuan-M4 is Baichuan Intelligence's clinical-grade medical large model, designed for \emph{continuous care} rather than single-turn medical question answering.

By Aiyuan Yang, Chengfeng Dou, Da Pan, Dian Wang, Fan Yang, Fei Deng, Fei Li, Guangwei Ai, Hui Liu, Hongda Zhang, Jinyang Tai, Kai Lu, Lijun Liu, Linwei Chen, Linyu Li, Meiqing Guo, Peidong Guo, Qiang Ju, Rihui Xin, Shuai Wang, XinKai Ma, Xudong Chen, Yichuan Mo, Canbin Piao, Leyi Pan, Yihe Luo, Zian Wang
arXiv AI
Jun 9

Counterfactual Credit Policy Optimization for Multi-Agent Collaboration

arXiv:2603. 21563v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Collaborative multi-agent large language models (LLMs) can solve complex reasoning tasks by decomposing roles, but reinforcement learning for such systems is limited by credit assignment: shared terminal rewards obscure individual contributions and can encourage free-riding.

By Zhongyi Li, Wan Tian, Yikun Ban, Jinju Chen, Huiming Zhang, Yang Liu, Fuzhen Zhuang