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Sushil Vemuri

3 accepted papers

2026

Curriculum Reinforcement Learning from Easy to Hard Tasks Improves LLM Reasoning

ICLR 2026poster

We aim to improve the reasoning capabilities of language models via reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR). Recent RLVR post-trained models like DeepSeek-R1 have demonstrated reasoning abilities on mathematical and coding tasks. However, prior studies suggest that using RLVR alone to…

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2026

Learnability-Informed Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Language Models

ICML 2026poster

We aim to improve the reasoning capabilities of diffusion language models (DLMs). While SFT performs well for autoregressive models, its use in DLMs faces challenges. Our observation and analysis reveal that vanilla SFT does not consider learnability, i.e., what and when tokens are learned. Specific…

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2025

Robust LLM Alignment via Distributionally Robust Direct Preference Optimization

NeurIPS 2025poster

A major challenge in aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences is the issue of distribution shift. LLM alignment algorithms rely on static preference datasets, assuming that they accurately represent real-world user preferences. However, user preferences vary significantly across…

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