The field of large language models is moving towards more effective and efficient training methods, with a focus on reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR). Researchers are exploring new approaches to improve the reasoning capabilities of large language models, such as confidence-aware reward modeling, entropy-based methods, and self-examining reinforcement learning. These innovations aim to address challenges like overthinking, training collapse, and honesty alignment, and have shown promising results in various benchmarks. Notable papers in this area include: Steering Language Models with Weight Arithmetic, which proposes a simple post-training method to edit model parameters and achieve stronger out-of-distribution behavioral control. Think-at-Hard, which introduces a dynamic latent thinking method that iterates deeper only at hard tokens, resulting in significant accuracy gains. Efficient Reasoning via Reward Model, which proposes a pipeline for training a Conciseness Reward Model to score the conciseness of reasoning paths and foster more effective and efficient reasoning.
Advances in Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models
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Explore Data Left Behind in Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning Language Models
Steering Language Models with Weight Arithmetic
Beyond Correctness: Confidence-Aware Reward Modeling for Enhancing Large Language Model Reasoning
From Exploration to Exploitation: A Two-Stage Entropy RLVR Approach for Noise-Tolerant MLLM Training
MURPHY: Multi-Turn GRPO for Self Correcting Code Generation
SERL: Self-Examining Reinforcement Learning on Open-Domain
Think-at-Hard: Selective Latent Iterations to Improve Reasoning Language Models
The Path Not Taken: RLVR Provably Learns Off the Principals
SpiralThinker: Latent Reasoning through an Iterative Process with Text-Latent Interleaving
Efficient Reasoning via Reward Model
Stabilizing Reinforcement Learning for Honesty Alignment in Language Models on Deductive Reasoning