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We introduce Learning to Self-Evolve (LSE), a reinforcement learning framework that trains large language models (LLMs) to improve their own contexts at test time. We situate LSE in the setting of test-time self-evolution, where a model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Xiaoyin Chen , Canwen Xu , Yite Wang , Boyi Liu , Zhewei Yao , Yuxiong He

Riddle-solving requires advanced reasoning skills, pushing LLMs to engage in abstract thinking and creative problem-solving, often revealing limitations in their cognitive abilities. In this paper, we examine the riddle-solving capabilities…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Ioannis Panagiotopoulos , Giorgos Filandrianos , Maria Lymperaiou , Giorgos Stamou

We introduce Reasoning Core, a new scalable environment for Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), designed to advance foundational symbolic reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs). Unlike existing benchmarks that focus on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Valentin Lacombe , Valentin Quesnel , Damien Sileo

Self-evolving reasoning frameworks let LLMs improve their reasoning capabilities by iteratively generating and solving problems without external supervision, using verifiable rewards. Ideally, such systems are expected to explore a diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Vaibhav Mishra

Effectively exploring the environment is a key challenge in reinforcement learning (RL). We address this challenge by defining a novel intrinsic reward based on a foundation model, such as contrastive language image pretraining (CLIP),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Tarun Gupta , Peter Karkus , Tong Che , Danfei Xu , Marco Pavone

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become the dominant paradigm for improving the performance of language models on complex reasoning tasks. Despite the substantial empirical gains demonstrated by RL-based training methods like GRPO, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Jiayu Wang , Yifei Ming , Zixuan Ke , Caiming Xiong , Shafiq Joty , Aws Albarghouthi , Frederic Sala

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is playing an increasingly important role in real-world applications. However, obtaining an optimally performing DRL agent for complex tasks, especially with sparse rewards, remains a significant challenge.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Zelei Cheng , Xian Wu , Jiahao Yu , Sabrina Yang , Gang Wang , Xinyu Xing

Large language models exhibit complementary reasoning errors: on the same instance, one model may succeed with a particular decomposition while another fails. We propose Collaborative Reasoning (CORE), a training-time collaboration…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Kshitij Mishra , Mirat Aubakirov , Martin Takac , Nils Lukas , Salem Lahlou

Recent works have advanced feedback-based learning systems, whereby a foundation model is able to intake incoming feedback (e.g., a user) to self-improve, creating a self-loop system of training. However, existing works are limited in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Seohyun Lee , Wenzhi Fang , Dong-Jun Han , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Christopher G. Brinton

Large language models have achieved remarkable progress on complex reasoning tasks. However, they often implicitly fabricate information when inputs are incomplete, producing confident but unreliable conclusions -- a failure mode we term…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Yiwen Qiu , Linjuan Wu , Yizhou Liu , Yuchen Yan , Jin Ma , Xu Tan , Yao Hu , Daoxin Zhang , Wenqi Zhang , Weiming Lu , Jun Xiao , Yongliang Shen

A central piece in enabling intelligent agentic behavior in foundation models is to make them capable of introspecting upon their behavior, reasoning, and correcting their mistakes as more computation or interaction is available. Even the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Yuxiao Qu , Tianjun Zhang , Naman Garg , Aviral Kumar

Training reliable tool-augmented agents remains a significant challenge, largely due to the difficulty of credit assignment in multi-step reasoning. While process-level reward models offer a promising direction, existing LLM-based judges…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yuxuan Jiang , Francis Ferraro

We introduce STRIVE (SpatioTemporal Reinforcement with Importance-aware Variant Exploration), a structured reinforcement learning framework for video question answering. While group-based policy optimization methods have shown promise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Emad Bahrami , Olga Zatsarynna , Parth Pathak , Sunando Sengupta , Juergen Gall , Mohsen Fayyaz

Scientific reasoning requires not only long-chain reasoning processes, but also knowledge of domain-specific terminologies and adaptation to updated findings. To deal with these challenges for scientific reasoning, we introduce RAISE, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Minhae Oh , Jeonghye Kim , Nakyung Lee , Donggeon Seo , Taeuk Kim , Jungwoo Lee

Despite the sustained scaling on model capacity and data acquisition, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models remain brittle in contact-rich and dynamic manipulation tasks, where minor execution deviations can compound into failures. While…

Large language models (LLMs) excel at many supervised tasks but often struggle with structured reasoning in unfamiliar settings. This discrepancy suggests that standard fine-tuning pipelines may instill narrow, domain-specific heuristics…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Zhen Hao Wong , Jingwen Deng , Runming He , Zirong Chen , Qijie You , Hejun Dong , Hao Liang , Chengyu Shen , Bin Cui , Wentao Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) show great promise in complex reasoning, with Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) being a key enhancement strategy. However, a prevalent issue is ``superficial self-reflection'', where models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Xiaoyuan Liu , Tian Liang , Zhiwei He , Jiahao Xu , Wenxuan Wang , Pinjia He , Zhaopeng Tu , Haitao Mi , Dong Yu

The capability of a reinforcement learning (RL) agent heavily depends on the diversity of the learning scenarios generated by the environment. Generation of diverse realistic scenarios is challenging for real-time strategy (RTS)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Abdus Salam Azad , Edward Kim , Qiancheng Wu , Kimin Lee , Ion Stoica , Pieter Abbeel , Sanjit A. Seshia

Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved strong multimodal reasoning capabilities, but further improving them still relies heavily on large-scale human-constructed supervision for post-training. Such supervision is costly to obtain,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Chaoran Xu , Yingmao Miao , Pengfei Zhang , Hao Dou , Lei Sun , Xiangxiang Chu

Significant progress has been made in scene understanding which seeks to build 3D, metric and object-oriented representations of the world. Concurrently, reinforcement learning has made impressive strides largely enabled by advances in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Zachary Ravichandran , J. Daniel Griffith , Benjamin Smith , Costas Frost