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Viacheslav Sinii

5 accepted papers

2026

The Differences Between Direct Alignment Algorithms are a Blur

ICML 2026poster

Direct Alignment Algorithms (DAAs) simplify LLM alignment by directly optimizing policies, bypassing reward modeling and RL. While DAAs differ in their use of SFT (one-stage vs. two-stage) and the scalar score they optimize (likelihood vs. odds ratios), the key performance drivers remain underexplor…

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2025

Steering LLM Reasoning Through Bias-Only Adaptation

EMNLP 2025

We show that training a single d -dimensional steering vector per layer with reinforcement learning, while freezing all base weights, matches the accuracy of fully RL-tuned reasoning models on mathematical-reasoning tasks.On an 8 billion-parameter model this adds only ≈ 0.0016% additional parameters

2024

Emergence of In-Context Reinforcement Learning from Noise Distillation

ICML 2024poster

Recently, extensive studies in Reinforcement Learning have been carried out on the ability of transformers to adapt in-context to various environments and tasks. Current in-context RL methods are limited by their strict requirements for data, which needs to be generated by RL agents or labeled with…

2024

In-Context Reinforcement Learning for Variable Action Spaces

ICML 2024poster

Recently, it has been shown that transformers pre-trained on diverse datasets with multi-episode contexts can generalize to new reinforcement learning tasks in-context. A key limitation of previously proposed models is their reliance on a predefined action space size and structure. The introduction…

2024

XLand-MiniGrid: Scalable Meta-Reinforcement Learning Environments in JAX

NeurIPS 2024poster

Inspired by the diversity and depth of XLand and the simplicity and minimalism of MiniGrid, we present XLand-MiniGrid, a suite of tools and grid-world environments for meta-reinforcement learning research. Written in JAX, XLand-MiniGrid is designed to be highly scalable and can potentially run on GP…