Reinforcement learning

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

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arXiv AI
Jun 2

Policy and World Modeling Co-Training for Language Agents

arXiv:2606. 02388v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) improves large language model (LLM) agents by teaching them which actions lead to high rewards, but provides little supervision on what those actions do to the environment.

By Ning Lu, Baijiong Lin, Shengcai Liu, Jiahao Wu, Haoze Lv, Yanbin Wei, Lingting Zhu, Shengju Qian, Xin Wang, Ying-Cong Chen, Qi Wang, Ke Tang
arXiv AI
Jun 2

SCOPE: Signal-Calibrated On-Policy Distillation Enhancement with Dual-Path Adaptive Weighting

arXiv:2604. 10688v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: On-policy reinforcement learning has become the dominant paradigm for reasoning alignment in large language models, yet its sparse, outcome-level rewards make token-level credit assignment notoriously difficult.

By Binbin Zheng, Xing Ma, Yiheng Liang, Jingqing Ruan, Xiaoliang Fu, Kepeng Lin, Benchang Zhu, Ke Zeng, Xunliang Cai
arXiv AI
Jun 2

TriAlign: Towards Universal Truth Consistency in Personalized LLM Alignment

arXiv:2606. 01755v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Personalized large language models adapt responses to users' preferences and social attributes, but can introduce substantial universal truth inconsistencies across social groups, where some groups systematically receive less accurate responses on objective tasks.

By Thi-Nhung Nguyen, Linhao Luo, Rollin Omari, Junae Kim, Thuy-Trang Vu, Dinh Phung
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Toward accurate RUL and SoH estimation using reinforced graph-based physics-informed neural networks enhanced with dynamic weights

arXiv:2507. 09766v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Accurate estimation of Remaining Useful Life (RUL) and State of Health (SoH) is essential for reliable Prognostics and Health Management (PHM), supporting timely maintenance and dependable industrial operation.

By Mohamadreza Akbari Pour, Ali Ghasemzadeh, Mohamad Ali Bijarchi, Mohammad Behshad Shafii
arXiv AI
Jun 2

ExpertGen: Scalable Sim-to-Real Expert Policy Learning from Imperfect Behavior Priors

arXiv:2603. 15956v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning generalizable and robust behavior cloning policies requires large volumes of high-quality robotics data.

By Zifan Xu, Ran Gong, Maria Vittoria Minniti, Kausik Sivakumar, Ahmet Salih Gundogdu, Eric Rosen, Riedana Yan, Tushar Kusnur, Zixing Wang, Di Deng, Peter Stone, Xiaohan Zhang, Karl Schmeckpeper
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Med-Scout: Curing MLLMs' Geometric Blindness in Medical Perception via Geometry-Aware RL Post-Training

arXiv:2601. 23220v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs)' linguistic prowess in medical diagnosis, we find even state-of-the-art MLLMs suffer from a critical perceptual deficit: geometric blindness.

By Anglin Liu, Ruichao Chen, Yi Lu, Hongxia Xu, Jintai Chen
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Video Reasoning without Training

arXiv:2510. 17045v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Video reasoning using Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) relies on costly reinforcement learning (RL) and verbose chain-of-thought, resulting in substantial computational overhead during both training and inference.

By Deepak Sridhar, Kartikeya Bhardwaj, Jeya Pradha Jeyaraj, Nuno Vasconcelos, Ankita Nayak, Harris Teague
arXiv AI
Jun 2

AnomSeer: Reinforcing Multimodal LLMs to Reason for Time-Series Anomaly Detection

arXiv:2602. 08868v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Time-series anomaly detection (TSAD) with multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is an emerging area, yet a persistent challenge remains: MLLMs rely on coarse time-series heuristics but struggle with multi-dimensional, detailed reasoning, which is vital for understanding complex time-series data.

By Junru Zhang, Lang Feng, Haoran Shi, Xu Guo, Han Yu, Yabo Dong, Duanqing Xu
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Mitigating Reward Hacking in RLHF via Bayesian Non-negative Reward Modeling

arXiv:2602. 10623v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reward models learned from human preferences are central to aligning large language models (LLMs) via reinforcement learning from human feedback, yet they are often vulnerable to reward hacking due to noisy annotations and systematic biases such as response length or style.

By Zhibin Duan, Guowei Rong, Zhuo Li, Bo Chen, Mingyuan Zhou, Dandan Guo
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Large Language Model Guided Incentive Aware Reward Design for Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2603. 24324v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Designing effective auxiliary rewards for cooperative multi-agent systems remains challenging, as misaligned incentives can induce suboptimal coordination, particularly when sparse task rewards provide insufficient grounding for coordinated behavior.

By Dogan Urgun, Gokhan Gungor
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

MedGym:A Unified Continuous-Time Benchmark for Dynamic Medical Treatment Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606. 01028v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical treatment recommendation poses several challenges to reinforcement learning (RL): patient physiology evolves in continuous time, measurements and interventions are performed at irregular intervals, and treatment effects vary substantially across individuals.

By Yuepeng Wang, Ken Kawano, Yongqi Zhou, Yoshihiko Fujisawa, Richard Weiss, Akifumi Wachi, Katsuki Fujisawa, Ying Chen, Mehrshad Sadria, Xin Liu, Kyoung-Sook Kim, Xiao Hu, Sebastien Gros, Xun Shen