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Post-training for reasoning of large language models (LLMs) increasingly relies on verifiable rewards: deterministic checkers that provide 0-1 correctness signals. While reliable, such binary feedback is brittle--many tasks admit partially…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate transformative potential, yet their reasoning remains inconsistent and unreliable. Reinforcement learning (RL)-based fine-tuning is a key mechanism for improvement, but its effectiveness is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Pei-Chi Pan , Yingbin Liang , Sen Lin

In this work, we present the first application of Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward (RLVR) to an Omni-multimodal large language model in the context of emotion recognition, a task where both visual and audio modalities play…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jiaxing Zhao , Xihan Wei , Liefeng Bo

Reinforcement learning (RL) has recently achieved remarkable success in eliciting visual reasoning within Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, existing approaches typically train separate models for different tasks and treat…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Kaituo Feng , Manyuan Zhang , Hongyu Li , Kaixuan Fan , Shuang Chen , Yilei Jiang , Dian Zheng , Peiwen Sun , Yiyuan Zhang , Haoze Sun , Yan Feng , Peng Pei , Xunliang Cai , Xiangyu Yue

Process Reward Model (PRM) is widely used in the post-training of Large Language Model (LLM) because it can perform fine-grained evaluation of the reasoning steps of generated content. However, most PRMs lack long-term reasoning and deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Xinquan Chen , Chongying Yue , Bangwei Liu , Xuhong Wang , Yingchun Wang , Chaochao Lu

Reward Models (RMs) are critical for improving generation models via Reinforcement Learning (RL), yet the RM scaling paradigm in visual generation remains largely unexplored. It primarily due to fundamental limitations in existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Jie Wu , Yu Gao , Zilyu Ye , Ming Li , Liang Li , Hanzhong Guo , Jie Liu , Zeyue Xue , Xiaoxia Hou , Wei Liu , Yan Zeng , Weilin Huang

Unified video models exhibit strong capabilities in understanding and generation, yet they struggle with reason-informed visual editing even when equipped with powerful internal vision-language models (VLMs). We attribute this gap to two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xinyu Liu , Hangjie Yuan , Yujie Wei , Jiazheng Xing , Yujin Han , Jiahao Pan , Yanbiao Ma , Chi-Min Chan , Kang Zhao , Shiwei Zhang , Wenhan Luo , Yike Guo

Conventional reinforcement learning (RL) approaches often struggle to learn effective policies under sparse reward conditions, necessitating the manual design of complex, task-specific reward functions. To address this limitation,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Suzie Kim

We present UniGen-1.5, a unified multimodal large language model (MLLM) for advanced image understanding, generation and editing. Building upon UniGen, we comprehensively enhance the model architecture and training pipeline to strengthen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Rui Tian , Mingfei Gao , Haiming Gang , Jiasen Lu , Zhe Gan , Yinfei Yang , Zuxuan Wu , Afshin Dehghan

Inspired by the success of reinforcement learning (RL) in refining large language models (LLMs), we propose AR-GRPO, an approach to integrate online RL training into autoregressive (AR) image generation models. We adapt the Group Relative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Shihao Yuan , Yahui Liu , Yang Yue , Jingyuan Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo , Qi Wang , Fuzheng Zhang , Guorui Zhou

Inspired by DeepSeek-R1's success in eliciting reasoning abilities through rule-based reinforcement learning (RL), we introduce Video-R1 as the first attempt to systematically explore the R1 paradigm for incentivizing video reasoning within…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Kaituo Feng , Kaixiong Gong , Bohao Li , Zonghao Guo , Yibing Wang , Tianshuo Peng , Junfei Wu , Xiaoying Zhang , Benyou Wang , Xiangyu Yue

Can Visual Language Models (VLMs) effectively capture human visual preferences? This work addresses this question by training VLMs to think about preferences at test time, employing reinforcement learning methods inspired by DeepSeek R1 and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Alexander Gambashidze , Konstantin Sobolev , Andrey Kuznetsov , Ivan Oseledets

Aligning human preference and value is an important requirement for building contemporary foundation models and embodied AI. However, popular approaches such as reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF) break down the task into…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Chenliang Li , Siliang Zeng , Zeyi Liao , Jiaxiang Li , Dongyeop Kang , Alfredo Garcia , Mingyi Hong

Large vision-language models (VLMs) fine-tuned on specialized visual instruction-following data have exhibited impressive language reasoning capabilities across various scenarios. However, this fine-tuning paradigm may not be able to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Yuexiang Zhai , Hao Bai , Zipeng Lin , Jiayi Pan , Shengbang Tong , Yifei Zhou , Alane Suhr , Saining Xie , Yann LeCun , Yi Ma , Sergey Levine

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has recently enhanced the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), particularly for mathematical problem solving. However, a fundamental limitation remains: as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Wenhao Deng , Long Wei , Chenglei Yu , Tailin Wu

Recent advances in image editing models have shown remarkable progress. A common architectural design couples a multimodal large language model (MLLM) encoder with a diffusion decoder, as seen in systems such as Step1X-Edit and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Fukun Yin , Shiyu Liu , Yucheng Han , Zhibo Wang , Peng Xing , Rui Wang , Wei Cheng , Yingming Wang , Aojie Li , Zixin Yin , Pengtao Chen , Xiangyu Zhang , Daxin Jiang , Xianfang Zeng , Gang Yu

Reinforcement learning (RL) as post-training is crucial for enhancing the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs) in coding and math. However, their capacity for visual semantic arithmetic, inferring relationships from images,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Chuou Xu , Liya Ji , Qifeng Chen

Recent advances in large language and vision-language models have enabled strong reasoning capabilities, yet they remain impractical for specialized domains like remote sensing, where annotated data is scarce and expensive. We present the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Aybora Koksal , A. Aydin Alatan

Accurate chart comprehension represents a critical challenge in advancing multimodal learning systems, as extensive information is compressed into structured visual representations. However, existing vision-language models (VLMs) frequently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xin Zhang , Xingyu Li , Rongguang Wang , Ruizhong Miao , Zheng Wang , Dan Roth , Chenyang Li

Instruction-based image editing has made a great process in using natural human language to manipulate the visual content of images. However, existing models are limited by the quality of the dataset and cannot accurately localize editing…

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