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Guanning Zeng

7 accepted papers

2026

Demystifying Entropy Control in LLM RL Training: Theoretical Analysis and Dynamic Scheduling

ICML 2026spotlight

This paper investigates a pivotal yet debated component of reinforcement learning (RL) for training large language models (LLMs): controlling entropy (increasing or decreasing it) during RL fine-tuning. The existing literature presents a dichotomy: some studies posit that increasing entropy facilita…

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2026

Differential Smoothing Mitigates Sharpening and Improves LLM Reasoning

ICML 2026poster

It is widely recognized that reinforcement learning (RL) fine-tuning of large language models often leads to \textit{diversity collapse}, where outputs lack variety. Prior work has proposed a range of heuristics to counteract this effect, but these methods are ad hoc: they frequently trade off corre…

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2026

Maximum Likelihood Reinforcement Learning

ICML 2026oral

Maximum likelihood is fundamental to supervised learning but it cannot be directly applied in correctness-based problems with non-differentiable sampling. In these settings, reinforcement learning (RL) is typically used to maximize expected reward. We show that for binary correctness tasks, expected…

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2026

Physical Adversarial Clothing Evades Visible-Thermal Detectors via Non-Overlapping RGB-T Pattern

CVPR 2026

Visible-thermal (RGB-T) object detection is a crucial technology for applications such as autonomous driving, where multimodal fusion enhances performance in challenging conditions like low light. However, the security of RGB-T detectors, particularly in the physical world, has been largely overlook

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2026

Shrinking the Variance: Shrinkage Baselines for Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

ICML 2026poster

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for post-training large reasoning models (LRMs) using policy-gradient methods such as GRPO. To stabilize training, these methods typically center trajectory rewards by subtracting the empirical mean for each pro…

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2025

YOLO-Count: Differentiable Object Counting for Text-to-Image Generation

ICCV 2025poster

We propose YOLO-Count, a differentiable open-vocabulary object counting model that tackles both general counting challenges and enables precise quantity control for text-to-image (T2I) generation. A core contribution is the 'cardinality' map, a novel regression target that accounts for variations in…

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2024

ImageNet3D: Towards General-Purpose Object-Level 3D Understanding

NeurIPS 2024poster

A vision model with general-purpose object-level 3D understanding should be capable of inferring both 2D (*e.g.*, class name and bounding box) and 3D information (*e.g.*, 3D location and 3D viewpoint) for arbitrary rigid objects in natural images. This is a challenging task, as it involves inferring…