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Hengli Li

5 accepted papers

2026

FlowRL: Matching Reward Distributions for LLM Reasoning

ICLR 2026poster

We propose FlowRL: matching the full reward distribution via flow balancing instead of solely maximizing rewards in large language model (LLM) reinforcement learning (RL). Recent advanced reasoning models adopt reward-maximizing methods (e.g., PPO and GRPO), which tend to over-optimize dominant rewa…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2026

MILR: Improving Multimodal Image Generation via Test-Time Latent Reasoning

ICLR 2026poster

Reasoning-augmented machine learning systems have shown improved performance in various domains, including image generation. However, existing reasoning-based methods for image generation either restrict reasoning to a single modality (image or text) or rely on high-quality reasoning data for fine-t…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2025

Are the Values of LLMs Structurally Aligned with Humans? A Causal Perspective

ACL 2025finding

As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated into critical applications, aligning their behavior with human values presents significant challenges. Current methods, such as Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF), typically focus on a limited set of coarse-grained values…

2025

How to Synthesize Text Data without Model Collapse?

ICML 2025poster

Model collapse in synthetic data indicates that iterative training on self-generated data leads to a gradual decline in performance. With the proliferation of AI models, synthetic data will fundamentally reshape the web data ecosystem. Future GPT-$\{n\}$ models will inevitably be trained on a blend…

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