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 23

Rethinking Uncertainty Evaluation in Large Language Models

arXiv:2607. 19367v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Calibration is the primary criterion for evaluating LLM confidence, but it is insufficient: it admits trivially incoherent estimators, depends on the evaluation distribution, and does not test the extent to which the estimation can be interpreted as a consistent, underlying probability function.

By Krish Matta, Atharv Naphade, Andy Zou
arXiv AI
Jul 23

In-the-Flow Agentic System Optimization for Effective Planning and Tool Use

arXiv:2510. 05592v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Outcome-driven reinforcement learning has advanced reasoning in large language models (LLMs), but prevailing tool-augmented approaches train a single, monolithic policy that interleaves thoughts and tool calls under full context; this scales poorly with long horizons and diverse tools and generalizes weakly to new scenarios.

By Zhuofeng Li, Haoxiang Zhang, Seungju Han, Sheng Liu, Jianwen Xie, Yu Zhang, Yejin Choi, James Zou, Pan Lu
arXiv AI
Jul 23

Coordinating from Memory: Graph-Structured Experience Reuse for Multi-Agent Adaptation in Dynamic Manufacturing

arXiv:2607. 19985v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Dynamic manufacturing environments require multi-agent systems to coordinate effectively under frequent operational disturbances such as machine failures, urgent job arrivals, and processing time variations.

By Chengxiao Dai, Zhanhui Lin, Zhaokun Yan, Youyang Ni, Chenjun Lei, Luyan Zhang
arXiv AI
Jul 23

From Trajectories to Prefixes: Reusing Teacher Trajectories via Replayed Prefixes and Online Continuation

arXiv:2607. 19395v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Small language models are attractive backbones for interactive agents, but direct distillation from strong teacher trajectories often turns rich multi-turn behavior into one-shot imitation targets.

By Yihan Wang, Zhong Guan, Haoran Sun, Jiale Huang, Likang Wu, Hongke Zhao
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 23

CRB-Driven Beamforming and Trajectory Optimization for UAV-assisted ISAC System

arXiv:2607. 19609v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we study an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system, where a UAV enhances the sensing capability of a base station (BS) towards a target while ensuring reliable communication towards a downlink user.

By Yi Yang, Qianqian Zhang, Huaxia Wang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 23

Offline RL with Hierarchical Action Chunking

Offline goal-conditioned reinforcement learning (RL) holds the promise of learning general-purpose policies from static datasets. However, scaling these methods to long-horizon tasks remains a challenge due to the curse of horizon, where value estimation errors can compound through long chains of bootstrapped Bellman backups.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 23

REFACT: Adaptive Fact Restatement for Compact and Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Large language models increasingly rely on long-form reasoning for complex tasks, yet their reasoning traces may drift away from the supplied context when evidence is sparse, noisy, or in conflict with parametric knowledge. Existing grounding methods either attach citations after generation or encourage evidence retrieval inside the trace, but they often do not ensure that cited content is sufficient for the local inference and final answer.