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5 accepted papers

2026

Unleashing Implicit Rewards: Prefix-Value Learning for Distribution-Level Optimization

ICML 2026poster

Process reward models (PRMs) provide fine-grained reward signals along the reasoning process, improving credit assignment beyond outcome-only rewards. Training reliable PRMs often relies on step annotations or heavy verification pipelines, making them expensive to scale and refresh during online RL.…

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2025

Advantage-Guided Distillation for Preference Alignment in Small Language Models

ICLR 2025spotlight

Alignment techniques enable Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate outputs that align with human preferences and play a crucial role in their effectiveness. However, their impact often diminishes when applied to Small Language Models (SLMs), likely due to the limited capacity of these models. Inst…

2025

Discriminative Policy Optimization for Token-Level Reward Models

ICML 2025poster

Process reward models (PRMs) provide more nuanced supervision compared to outcome reward models (ORMs) for optimizing policy models, positioning them as a promising approach to enhancing the capabilities of LLMs in complex reasoning tasks. Recent efforts have advanced PRMs from step-level to token-l…

2025

Edit-Wise Preference Optimization for Grammatical Error Correction

COLING 2025main

While large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in various natural language processing tasks, their strengths have yet to be fully demonstrated in grammatical error correction (GEC). This is partly due to the misalignment between their pre-training objectives and the GEC principl…

2024

Self-Evolution Fine-Tuning for Policy Optimization

EMNLP 2024finding

The alignment of large language models (LLMs) is crucial not only for unlocking their potential in specific tasks but also for ensuring that responses meet human expectations and adhere to safety and ethical principles. To address the challenges of current alignment methodologies, we introduce self-…