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Qiyuan Zhang

10 accepted papers

2026

From Verifiable Dot to Reward Chain: Harnessing Verifiable Reference-based Rewards for Reinforcement Learning of Open-ended Generation

ICLR 2026poster

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) succeeds in reasoning tasks (e.g., math and code) by checking the final verifiable answer (i.e., a verifiable dot signal). However, extending this paradigm to open-ended generation is challenging because there is no unambiguous ground truth. Rely…

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2026

Saliency-R1: Enforcing Interpretable and Faithful Vision-language Reasoning via Saliency-map Alignment Reward

CVPR 2026

Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse tasks. However, concerns about their trustworthiness persist, particularly regarding tendencies to lean more on textual cues than visual evidence and the risk of producing ungrounded or fabricated responses. To address the

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2025

Crowd Comparative Reasoning: Unlocking Comprehensive Evaluations for LLM-as-a-Judge

ACL 2025long

LLM-as-a-Judge, which generates chain-of-thought (CoT) judgments, has become a widely adopted auto-evaluation method. However, its reliability is compromised by the CoT reasoning’s inability to capture comprehensive and deeper details, often leading to incomplete outcomes. Existing methods mainly re…

2025

NILE: Internal Consistency Alignment in Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Recent advances show that the world knowledge in the Instruction Fine-Tuning (IFT) dataset, which is incompatible with LLMs’ internal knowledge, can greatly hurt the IFT performance. However, the effective integration and balancing of the internal knowledge of LLMs, acquired during pre-training, wit

2025

RevisEval: Improving LLM-as-a-Judge via Response-Adapted References

ICLR 2025poster

With significant efforts in recent studies, LLM-as-a-Judge has become a cost-effective alternative to human evaluation for assessing text generation quality in a wide range of tasks. However, there still remains a reliability gap between LLM-as-a-Judge and human evaluation. One important reason is t…

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2022

APD: Learning Diverse Behaviors for Reinforcement Learning Through Unsupervised Active Pre-Training

RA-L 2022

Unsupervised pre-training in reinforcement learning enables the agent to gain prior environmental knowledge, which is then fine-tuned in the supervised stage to quickly adapt to various downstream tasks. In the absence of task-related rewards, pre-training aims to acquire policies (i.e., behaviors)

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2021

Believe What You See: Implicit Constraint Approach for Offline Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

NeurIPS 2021spotlight

Learning from datasets without interaction with environments (Offline Learning) is an essential step to apply Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms in real-world scenarios. However, compared with the single-agent counterpart, offline multi-agent RL introduces more agents with the larger state and a…

2021

Learning to Discover Task-Relevant Features for Interpretable Reinforcement Learning

RA-L 2021

Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents are often fed with large-dimensional observations to achieve the ideal performance in complex environments. Unfortunately, the massive observation space usually contains useless or even adverse features, which leads to low sample efficiency. Existing methods rely o

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2021

NOAHQA: Numerical Reasoning with Interpretable Graph Question Answering Dataset

EMNLP 2021finding

While diverse question answering (QA) datasets have been proposed and contributed significantly to the development of deep learning models for QA tasks, the existing datasets fall short in two aspects. First, we lack QA datasets covering complex questions that involve answers as well as the reasonin…