With opponent-action feedback in zero-sum games, an efficient algorithm achieves near-optimal t^{-1/2} last-iterate convergence in duality gap with high probability.
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Jing Xu, Andrew Lee, Sainbayar Sukhbaatar, and Jason Weston
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VPD frames language feedback learning as variational EM so the teacher policy refines itself via trust-region updates on outcomes while the student learns dense token distributions on its own rollouts, outperforming fixed-teacher baselines on reasoning and code tasks.
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The cumulative token IS ratio gives unbiased prefix correction and lower variance than full-sequence ratios for token-level gradients in LLM policy optimization, enabling CTPO to outperform GRPO and GSPO baselines on mathematical reasoning tasks.
IRIS unifies self-play fine-tuning under an interpolative Rényi objective with adaptive alpha scheduling and reports better benchmark scores than baselines while surpassing full supervised fine-tuning with only 13% of the annotated data.
GDSD reduces RL for dLLMs to likelihood-free self-distillation via a normalization-free logit-matching objective, outperforming ELBO methods with more stable training on LLaDA-8B and Dream-7B.
AdaDPO uses self-adaptive stop-gradient coefficients to balance preferred and dispreferred gradients in DPO, achieving higher AlpacaEval 2 win rates than standard DPO on Llama-3-8B-Instruct.
GPRL carries a k-dimensional skew-symmetric preference structure into policy updates with per-dimension advantages and a drift monitor, yielding 56.51% length-controlled win rate on AlpacaEval 2.0 from Llama-3-8B-Instruct while outperforming SimPO and SPPO on other benchmarks.
TPAW uses teams of current and historical model checkpoints that collaborate and compete, plus adaptive weightings for responses and players, to improve self-supervised LLM alignment and outperform baselines.
Mutual Reinforcement Learning allows heterogeneous LLMs to exchange experience through mechanisms like Peer Rollout Pooling, Cross-Policy GRPO Advantage Sharing, and Success-Gated Transfer, with outcome-level sharing identified as favorable on the stability-support trade-off.
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MNPO extends NLHF to multiplayer Nash games, inheriting equilibrium guarantees while showing empirical gains on instruction-following benchmarks under diverse preferences.
Mixed Preference Optimization with the MMPR dataset boosts multimodal CoT reasoning, lifting InternVL2-8B to 67.0 accuracy on MathVista (+8.7 points) and matching the 76B model.
UNA unifies binary, pairwise, and score-based feedback for LLM alignment via a generalized implicit reward function shown optimal by the log sum inequality.
MedFabric dataset and EtHER detector achieve over 15% better word-level fabrication detection in medical LLMs than prior methods by generating stylistically faithful errors and using decomposition-based checking.
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Near-Optimal Last-Iterate Convergence for Zero-Sum Games with Bandit Feedback and Opponent Actions
With opponent-action feedback in zero-sum games, an efficient algorithm achieves near-optimal t^{-1/2} last-iterate convergence in duality gap with high probability.
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Learning from Language Feedback via Variational Policy Distillation
VPD frames language feedback learning as variational EM so the teacher policy refines itself via trust-region updates on outcomes while the student learns dense token distributions on its own rollouts, outperforming fixed-teacher baselines on reasoning and code tasks.
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Fast Rates for Offline Contextual Bandits with Forward-KL Regularization under Single-Policy Concentrability
The paper establishes the first tilde O(epsilon^{-1}) upper bounds and matching lower bounds for forward-KL-regularized offline contextual bandits under single-policy concentrability in both tabular and general function approximation settings.
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Rethinking Importance Sampling in LLM Policy Optimization: A Cumulative Token Perspective
The cumulative token IS ratio gives unbiased prefix correction and lower variance than full-sequence ratios for token-level gradients in LLM policy optimization, enabling CTPO to outperform GRPO and GSPO baselines on mathematical reasoning tasks.
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IRIS: Interpolative R\'enyi Iterative Self-play for Large Language Model Fine-Tuning
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GDSD: Reinforcement Learning as Guided Denoiser Self-Distillation for Diffusion Language Models
GDSD reduces RL for dLLMs to likelihood-free self-distillation via a normalization-free logit-matching objective, outperforming ELBO methods with more stable training on LLaDA-8B and Dream-7B.
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AdaDPO: Self-Adaptive Direct Preference Optimization with Balanced Gradient Updates
AdaDPO uses self-adaptive stop-gradient coefficients to balance preferred and dispreferred gradients in DPO, achieving higher AlpacaEval 2 win rates than standard DPO on Llama-3-8B-Instruct.
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General Preference Reinforcement Learning
GPRL carries a k-dimensional skew-symmetric preference structure into policy updates with per-dimension advantages and a drift monitor, yielding 56.51% length-controlled win rate on AlpacaEval 2.0 from Llama-3-8B-Instruct while outperforming SimPO and SPPO on other benchmarks.
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Team-Based Self-Play With Dual Adaptive Weighting for Fine-Tuning LLMs
TPAW uses teams of current and historical model checkpoints that collaborate and compete, plus adaptive weightings for responses and players, to improve self-supervised LLM alignment and outperform baselines.
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Experience Sharing in Mutual Reinforcement Learning for Heterogeneous Language Models
Mutual Reinforcement Learning allows heterogeneous LLMs to exchange experience through mechanisms like Peer Rollout Pooling, Cross-Policy GRPO Advantage Sharing, and Success-Gated Transfer, with outcome-level sharing identified as favorable on the stability-support trade-off.
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Gradient-Gated DPO: Stabilizing Preference Optimization in Language Models
Gate-DPO attenuates gradients on low-probability rejected responses to reduce probability collapse and improve chosen-response likelihood during preference optimization.
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Multiplayer Nash Preference Optimization
MNPO extends NLHF to multiplayer Nash games, inheriting equilibrium guarantees while showing empirical gains on instruction-following benchmarks under diverse preferences.
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Enhancing the Reasoning Ability of Multimodal Large Language Models via Mixed Preference Optimization
Mixed Preference Optimization with the MMPR dataset boosts multimodal CoT reasoning, lifting InternVL2-8B to 67.0 accuracy on MathVista (+8.7 points) and matching the 76B model.
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UNA: A Unified Supervised Framework for Efficient LLM Alignment Across Feedback Types
UNA unifies binary, pairwise, and score-based feedback for LLM alignment via a generalized implicit reward function shown optimal by the log sum inequality.
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MedFabric and EtHER: A Data-Centric Framework for Word-Level Fabrication Generation and Detection in Medical LLMs
MedFabric dataset and EtHER detector achieve over 15% better word-level fabrication detection in medical LLMs than prior methods by generating stylistically faithful errors and using decomposition-based checking.