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cs.LGcs.AIRecentJun 1, 2026

Policy and World Modeling Co-Training for Language Agents

Ning Lu, Baijiong Lin, Shengcai Liu, Jiahao Wu +8 more

The paper proposes PaW, a co-training framework that uses standard RL rollouts to provide auxiliary world model supervision directly during policy training, significantly improving language agent perf…

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cs.LGcs.AIRecentMay 28, 2026

On Effectiveness and Efficiency of Agentic Tool-calling and RL Training

Tong Liu, Cheng Qian, Matej Cief, Yuan He +3 more

This paper analyzes tool-calling in LLM agents, demonstrating that evaluation results are highly sensitive to implementation details and proposing new techniques to significantly improve the efficienc…

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cs.LGcs.CLEmpiricalRecentJul 1, 2026

Is One Layer Enough? Training A Single Transformer Layer Can Match Full-Parameter RL Training

Zijian Zhang, Rizhen Hu, Athanasios Glentis, Dawei Li +3 more

This paper studies the distribution of reinforcement learning (RL) adaptation across transformer layers in large language models and finds that training a single layer can recover most of the gains ob…

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cs.LGcs.AIRecentMay 29, 2026

When are LLMs Sufficient Policy Optimizers for Sequential RL Tasks?

Stephane Hatgis-Kessell, Emma Brunskill

The paper introduces Prompted Policy Optimization (PromptPO), an LLM-based method that successfully optimizes policies for various sequential RL tasks, demonstrating that LLMs can replace classical RL…

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cs.AIRecentMay 27, 2026

DenoiseRL: Bootstrapping Reasoning Models to Recover from Noisy Prefixes

Caijun Xu, Changyi Xiao, Zhongyuan Peng, Yixin Cao

DenoiseRL is a novel reinforcement learning framework that improves reasoning in large language models by optimizing directly from the failures and incorrect reasoning traces of weak models, eliminati…

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cs.LGcs.AIRecentMay 29, 2026

EchoRL: Reinforcement Learning via Rollout Echoing

Jinhe Bi, Aniri, Minglai Yang, Xingcheng Zhou +8 more

EchoRL proposes a lightweight module to exploit valuable learning signals from advantage-degenerated rollouts in Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), significantly improving LLM post…

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cs.CLRecentMay 31, 2026

Cross-lingual Self-Consistency for Multilingual Reasoning with Language Models

Ahmed Elhady, Eneko Agirre, Mikel Artetxe

The paper proposes an unsupervised Reinforcement Learning approach that enforces cross-lingual self-consistency to significantly enhance the multilingual reasoning capabilities of large language model…

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cs.CLcs.AIRecentMay 28, 2026

Source-Grounded Semantic Reinforcement Learning for Low-Resource Target-Language Generation

Zeli Su, Ziyin Zhang, Zewei Pan, Zhou Liu +7 more

The paper introduces Source-Grounded Semantic Reinforcement Learning (SG-SRL), a framework that leverages abundant source-language monolingual data to improve target-language generation in low-resourc…

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cs.LGcs.AIRecentJun 2, 2026

Language Models Need Sleep: Learning to Self-Modify and Consolidate Memories

Ali Behrouz, Farnoosh Hashemi, Vahab Mirrokni

This paper introduces a 'Sleep' paradigm for machine learning models to continually learn and transfer knowledge.

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cs.CLcs.SDEmpiricalRecentJul 2, 2026

Reinforcement Learning for Data-Efficient Code-Switched ASR

Ziwei Ye, Peter Vickers

This paper proposes a reinforcement learning approach for adapting audio-language models to code-switched speech using group relative policy optimization and verifiable rewards.

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cs.CLcs.AIRecentJun 1, 2026

Learning When to Translate for Multilingual Reasoning

Deokhyung Kang, Hyounghun Kim, Gary Geunbae Lee

The paper proposes Luar, a framework that trains reasoning language models to selectively use English translation only when their direct understanding of a non-English input is unreliable, significant…

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math.OCcs.LGcs.MATheoreticalRecentJul 1, 2026

Mean Field Reinforcement Learning

René Carmona, Mathieu Laurière

This paper introduces mean field reinforcement learning through Markov decision processes in large-population stochastic control, developing the necessary framework for representative-agent learning,…

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cs.CLRecentMay 29, 2026

The Flip Side of RLHF: On-Policy Feedback for Reward Model Self-Supervised Improvement

Xiaobo Wang, Tong Wu, Min Tang, Jiaqi Li +2 more

The paper introduces SAVE, a framework that uses on-policy feedback and the value function to self-supervise and improve reward models, significantly enhancing RLHF performance across multiple benchma…

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cs.SEcs.LGEmpiricalRecentJun 18, 2026

A Model-Driven Approach for Developing Families of Reinforcement Learning Environments

Xiaoran Liu, Istvan David

A model-driven approach is proposed for generating families of reinforcement learning training environments using a hybrid genetic algorithm and model transformations.

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cs.AIRecentMay 27, 2026

Efficient Post-training of LLMs for Code Generation With Offline Reinforcement Learning

Mingze Wu, Abhinav Anand, Shweta Verma, Mira Mezini

This paper proposes using offline reinforcement learning (RL) as an efficient alternative to online RL for post-training code-generating LLMs, demonstrating its effectiveness, especially for smaller m…

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cs.CLSurveyRecentJul 1, 2026

Understanding Large Language Models

Yannik Keller, Thomas Eisenmann

This paper discusses the current understanding of Large Language Models (LLMs), their capabilities, and their relationship to human cognition, with a focus on emerging capabilities and mechanistic imp…

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cs.CLRecentMay 31, 2026

On the Generalization Gap in Self-Evolving Language Model Reasoning

Zhenting Qi, Susanna Maria Baby, Stefanie Anna Baby, Kan Yuan +4 more

The paper investigates the limits of self-evolution in LLM reasoning under closed-loop settings, finding that while self-improvement is significant, it consistently falls short of perfect oracle super…

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cs.CLcs.AIcs.LGEmpiricalRecentJul 21, 2026

The Price of Reasoning: Cost-Quality Tradeoffs in Reinforcement Learning for Neural Machine Translation

Michael Jungo, Aixiu An

This paper investigates the importance of including reasoning traces in the responses of Large Language Models during both training and inference for Neural Machine Translation, and shows that it posi…

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cs.LGcs.AIRecentMay 28, 2026

Overcoming Forgetting in LLM Fine-Tuning with Evolution Strategies

Kajetan Schweighofer, Conor F. Hayes, Roberto Dailey, Risto Miikkulainen +1 more

This paper introduces Anchored Weight Decay (AWD), a regularization technique that effectively prevents prior-task forgetting during LLM fine-tuning with Evolution Strategies (ES), positioning ES as a…

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