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Partially Relevant Video Retrieval (PRVR) aims to retrieve untrimmed videos partially relevant to a given query. The core challenge lies in learning robust query-video alignment against spurious semantic correlations arising from inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Long Zhang , Peipei Song , Jianfeng Dong , Kun Li , Xun Yang

Recent advancements in reinforcement learning (RL) have shown promise for optimizing virtual machine scheduling (VMS) in small-scale clusters. The utilization of RL to large-scale cloud computing scenarios remains notably constrained. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Junjie Sheng , Jiehao Wu , Haochuan Cui , Yiqiu Hu , Wenli Zhou , Lei Zhu , Qian Peng , Wenhao Li , Xiangfeng Wang

Curriculum Learning (CL) is a meta-learning paradigm that trains a model by feeding the data instances incrementally according to a schedule, which is based on difficulty progression. Defining meaningful difficulty assessment measures is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Gaspard Abel , Eloi Campagne , Mohamed Benloughmari , Argyris Kalogeratos

In this paper, we propose R$^3$: Learning Reasoning through Reverse Curriculum Reinforcement Learning (RL), a novel method that employs only outcome supervision to achieve the benefits of process supervision for large language models. The…

A pervasive challenge in Reinforcement Learning (RL) is the "curse of dimensionality" which is the exponential growth in the state-action space when optimizing a high-dimensional target task. The framework of curriculum learning trains the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Mingxuan Li , Junzhe Zhang , Elias Bareinboim

We present ReCAD, a reinforcement learning (RL) framework that bootstraps pretrained large models (PLMs) to generate precise parametric computer-aided design (CAD) models from multimodal inputs by leveraging their inherent generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiahao Li , Yusheng Luo , Yunzhong Lou , Xiangdong Zhou

Although reinforcement learning (RL) has significantly advanced reasoning capabilities in large multimodal language models (MLLMs), its efficacy remains limited for lightweight models essential for edge deployments. To address this issue,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Jingze Wu , Quan Zhang , Hongfei Suo , Zeqiang Cai , Hongbo Chen

Recent Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have shown strong multimodal reasoning capabilities, yet remain challenged by video understanding tasks that require consistent temporal ordering and causal coherence. Many parameter-efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhengjian Kang , Qi Chen , Rui Liu , Kangtong Mo , Xingyu Zhang , Xiaoyu Deng , Ye Zhang

Process rewards have been widely used in deep reinforcement learning to improve training efficiency, reduce variance, and prevent reward hacking. In LLM reasoning, existing works also explore various solutions for learning effective process…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Xian Wu , Kaijie Zhu , Ying Zhang , Lun Wang , Wenbo Guo

Recent advances in test-time optimization have led to remarkable reasoning capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs), enabling them to solve highly complex problems in math and coding. However, the reasoning capabilities of multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Ce Zhang , Yan-Bo Lin , Ziyang Wang , Mohit Bansal , Gedas Bertasius

Long-trajectory video generation is a crucial yet challenging task for world modeling primarily due to the limited scalability of existing video diffusion models (VDMs). Autoregressive models, while offering infinite rollout, suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Junyi Ouyang , Wenbin Teng , Gonglin Chen , Yajie Zhao , Haiwei Chen

Video-based multimodal large language models (Video-LLMs) possess significant potential for video understanding tasks. However, most Video-LLMs treat videos as a sequential set of individual frames, which results in insufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Xiaohan Lan , Yitian Yuan , Zequn Jie , Lin Ma

Traditional video reasoning segmentation methods rely on supervised fine-tuning, which limits generalization to out-of-distribution scenarios and lacks explicit reasoning. To address this, we propose \textbf{VideoSeg-R1}, the first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Zishan Xu , Yifu Guo , Yuquan Lu , Fengyu Yang , Junxin Li

Reinforcement learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for eliciting reasoning capabilities in large language models, particularly in mathematics and coding. While recent efforts have extended this paradigm…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Hanxu Hu , Yuxuan Wang , Maggie Huan , Jannis Vamvas , Yinya Huang , Zhijiang Guo , Rico Sennrich

Partially Relevant Video Retrieval~(PRVR) aims to retrieve a video where a specific segment is relevant to a given text query. Typical training processes of PRVR assume a one-to-one relationship where each text query is relevant to only one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 CH Cho , WJ Moon , W Jun , MS Jung , JP Heo

Prior works on action representation learning mainly focus on designing various architectures to extract the global representations for short video clips. In contrast, many practical applications such as video alignment have strong demand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Minghao Chen , Fangyun Wei , Chong Li , Deng Cai

Reinforcement learning (RL) has increasingly become a pivotal technique in the post-training of large language models (LLMs). The effective exploration of the output space is essential for the success of RL. We observe that for complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Shihan Dou , Muling Wu , Jingwen Xu , Rui Zheng , Tao Gui , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has been a main driver of recent breakthroughs in large reasoning models. Yet it remains a mystery how rewards based solely on final outcomes can help overcome the long-horizon barrier…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yu Huang , Zixin Wen , Yuejie Chi , Yuting Wei , Aarti Singh , Yingbin Liang , Yuxin Chen

Contrastive learning has emerged as a pivotal framework for representation learning, underpinning advances in both unimodal and bimodal applications like SimCLR and CLIP. To address fundamental limitations like large batch size dependency…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Ajay Jagannath , Aayush Upadhyay , Anant Mehta

This paper presents a novel approach for unsupervised video summarization using reinforcement learning (RL), addressing limitations like unstable adversarial training and reliance on heuristic-based reward functions. The method operates on…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Mehryar Abbasi , Hadi Hadizadeh , Parvaneh Saeedi