← Search

Serge Thilges

3 accepted papers

2026

PAWS: Preference Learning with Advantage-Weighted Segments

ICML 2026poster

Preference-based reinforcement learning (PbRL) learns policies from human trajectory-level comparisons, avoiding explicit reward design and expert demonstrations. Existing methods typically train utility functions on trajectory or segment-level preferences while relying on per-step utility estimates…

Cited by 0Source ↗Scholar ↗
2026

TROLL: Trust Regions Improve Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models

ICLR 2026oral

Reinforcement Learning (RL) with PPO-like clip objectives has become the standard choice for reward-based fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs). Although recent work has explored improved estimators of advantages and normalization, the clipping mechanism itself has remained untouched. Origina…

Cited by 0Source ↗code ↗Scholar ↗
2024

Open the Black Box: Step-based Policy Updates for Temporally-Correlated Episodic Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2024poster

Current advancements in reinforcement learning (RL) have predominantly focused on learning step-based policies that generate actions for each perceived state. While these methods efficiently leverage step information from environmental interaction, they often ignore the temporal correlation between…