The field of reinforcement learning (RL) is moving towards more efficient and scalable methods for adapting large language models to specialized tasks. Researchers are exploring new frameworks and techniques that reduce the reliance on large-scale human-labeled data, enabling broader adoption of RL in real-world applications. Noteworthy papers in this area include Synthetic Data RL, which introduces a simple and general framework for reinforcement fine-tuning using synthetic data generated from task definitions, achieving significant improvements over base models and supervised fine-tuning. Another notable work is ML-Agent, which proposes a novel agentic ML training framework that enables LLM agents to learn through interactive experimentation on ML tasks using online reinforcement learning, demonstrating exceptional cross-task generalization capabilities.
Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models
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Synthetic Data RL: Task Definition Is All You Need
Rethinking Agent Design: From Top-Down Workflows to Bottom-Up Skill Evolution
Trinity-RFT: A General-Purpose and Unified Framework for Reinforcement Fine-Tuning of Large Language Models
LaMDAgent: An Autonomous Framework for Post-Training Pipeline Optimization via LLM Agents
Two-Stage Feature Generation with Transformer and Reinforcement Learning
FastTD3: Simple, Fast, and Capable Reinforcement Learning for Humanoid Control
ML-Agent: Reinforcing LLM Agents for Autonomous Machine Learning Engineering