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Guozheng Ma

11 accepted papers

2026

A Simple "Motivation" Can Enhance Reinforcement Finetuning of Large Reasoning Models

ICLR 2026poster

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful learn-to-reason paradigm for Large Reasoning Models to tackle complex tasks. However, current RLVR paradigm is still not efficient enough, as it works in a trial-and-error manner. To perform better, the model needs to e…

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2026

Language-based Trial and Error Falls Behind in the Era of Experience

ICML 2026poster

While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in language-based agentic tasks, their applicability to unseen, nonlinguistic environments (e.g., symbolic or spatial tasks) remains limited. Previous work attributes this performance gap to the mismatch between the pretraining distribution and the testing di…

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2026

The State of Reinforcement Finetuning for Transformer-based Generative Agents

ICLR 2026poster

Reinforcement finetuning (RFT) has garnered significant attention in recent years, particularly for enhancing large reasoning models such as OpenAI o1 and Deepseek R1. The appeal of RFT largely stems from its ability to refine model knowledge, better align outputs with user intent, and address chall…

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2026

UltraHorizon: Benchmarking LLM-Agent Capabilities in Ultra Long-Horizon Scenarios

ICML 2026poster

Autonomous agents have recently achieved remarkable progress across diverse domains, yet most evaluations focus on short-horizon, fully observable tasks. In contrast, many critical real-world tasks, such as large-scale software development, commercial investment, and scientific discovery, unfold in …

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2026

What Makes Value Learning Efficient in Residual Reinforcement Learning?

ICML 2026spotlight

Residual reinforcement learning (RL) enables stable online refinement of expressive pretrained policies by freezing the base and learning only bounded corrections. However, value learning in residual RL poses unique challenges that remain poorly understood. In this work, we identify two key bottlene…

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2025

Mastering Massive Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning via Mixture-of-Expert Decision Transformer

ICML 2025poster

Despite recent advancements in offline multi-task reinforcement learning (MTRL) have harnessed the powerful capabilities of the Transformer architecture, most approaches focus on a limited number of tasks, with scaling to extremely massive tasks remaining a formidable challenge. In this paper, we f…

2025

Network Sparsity Unlocks the Scaling Potential of Deep Reinforcement Learning

ICML 2025oral

Effectively scaling up deep reinforcement learning models has proven notoriously difficult due to network pathologies during training, motivating various targeted interventions such as periodic reset and architectural advances such as layer normalization. Instead of pursuing more complex modificati…

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2024

Revisiting Plasticity in Visual Reinforcement Learning: Data, Modules and Training Stages

ICLR 2024poster

Plasticity, the ability of a neural network to evolve with new data, is crucial for high-performance and sample-efficient visual reinforcement learning (VRL). Although methods like resetting and regularization can potentially mitigate plasticity loss, the influences of various components within the…

2023

Learning Better with Less: Effective Augmentation for Sample-Efficient Visual Reinforcement Learning

NeurIPS 2023poster

Data augmentation (DA) is a crucial technique for enhancing the sample efficiency of visual reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. Notably, employing simple observation transformations alone can yield outstanding performance without extra auxiliary representation tasks or pre-trained encoders. Howe…

2022

Don’t Touch What Matters: Task-Aware Lipschitz Data Augmentation for Visual Reinforcement Learning

IJCAI 2022poster

One of the key challenges in visual Reinforcement Learning (RL) is to learn policies that can generalize to unseen environments. Recently, data augmentation techniques aiming at enhancing data diversity have demonstrated proven performance in improving the generalization ability of learned policies.…