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Mickel Liu

8 accepted papers

2026

Chasing Moving Targets with Online Self-Play Reinforcement Learning for Safer Language Models

ICML 2026poster

Conventional large language model (LLM) safety alignment relies on a reactive, disjoint loop: attackers exploit a static model, then defenders patch exposed vulnerabilities. This sequential setup leads to attackers overfitting obsolete exploits while defenders perpetually lag behind emerging threats…

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2026

Learning to summarize user information for personalized reinforcement learning from human feedback

ICLR 2026poster

As everyday use cases of large language model (LLM) AI assistants have expanded, it is becoming increasingly important to personalize responses to align to different users' preferences and goals. While reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) is effective at improving LLMs to be generally m…

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2026

SPIRAL: Self-Play on Zero-Sum Games Incentivizes Reasoning via Multi-Agent Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2026poster

Recent advances in reinforcement learning have shown that language models can develop sophisticated reasoning through training on tasks with verifiable rewards, but these approaches depend on human-curated problem-answer pairs and domain-specific reward engineering. We introduce SPIRAL, a self-play…

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2025

Artificial Hivemind: The Open-Ended Homogeneity of Language Models (and Beyond)

NeurIPS 2025oral

Large language models (LMs) often struggle to generate diverse, human-like creative content, raising concerns about the long-term homogenization of human thought through repeated exposure to similar outputs. Yet scalable methods for evaluating LM output diversity remain limited, especially beyond na…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

Safe RLHF: Safe Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback

ICLR 2024spotlight

With the development of large language models (LLMs), striking a balance between the performance and safety of AI systems has never been more critical. However, the inherent tension between the objectives of helpfulness and harmlessness presents a significant challenge during LLM training. To addres…

2023

BeaverTails: Towards Improved Safety Alignment of LLM via a Human-Preference Dataset

NeurIPS 2023poster

In this paper, we introduce the BeaverTails dataset, aimed at fostering research on safety alignment in large language models (LLMs). This dataset uniquely separates annotations of helpfulness and harmlessness for question-answering pairs, thus offering distinct perspectives on these crucial attribu…

Cited by 400SourcePDFScholar
2023

Proactive Multi-Camera Collaboration for 3D Human Pose Estimation

ICLR 2023poster

This paper presents a multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) scheme for proactive Multi-Camera Collaboration in 3D Human Pose Estimation in dynamic human crowds. Traditional fixed-viewpoint multi-camera solutions for human motion capture (MoCap) are limited in capture space and susceptible to dyn…

Cited by 17SourcePDFScholar
2022

MATE: Benchmarking Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in Distributed Target Coverage Control

NeurIPS 2022accept

We introduce the Multi-Agent Tracking Environment (MATE), a novel multi-agent environment simulates the target coverage control problems in the real world. MATE hosts an asymmetric cooperative-competitive game consisting of two groups of learning agents--"cameras" and "targets"--with opposing intere…