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Xueru Wen

8 accepted papers

2026

Coupled Variational Reinforcement Learning for Language Model General Reasoning

ICML 2026poster

While reinforcement learning has achieved impressive progress in language model reasoning, it is constrained by the requirement for verifiable rewards. Recent verifier-free RL methods address this limitation by utilizing the probabilities that LLMs generate reference answers as reward signals. Howev…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2026

Decoupling Reasoning and Confidence: Resurrecting Calibration in Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards

ICML 2026poster

Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) significantly enhances large language models (LLMs) reasoning but severely suffers from calibration degeneration, where models become excessively over-confident in incorrect answers. Previous studies devote to directly incorporating calibration o…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Cheems: A Practical Guidance for Building and Evaluating Chinese Reward Models from Scratch

ACL 2025long

Reward models (RMs) are crucial for aligning large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. However, most RM research is centered on English and relies heavily on synthetic resources, which leads to limited and less reliable datasets and benchmarks for Chinese. To address this gap, we introduc…

2025

Critic-CoT: Boosting the Reasoning Abilities of Large Language Model via Chain-of-Thought Critic

ACL 2025finding

Self-critic has become a crucial mechanism for enhancing the reasoning performance of LLMs. However, current approaches mainly involve basic prompts for intuitive instance-level feedback, which resembles System-1 processes and limits the reasoning capabilities. Moreover, there is a lack of in-depth…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

On-Policy Self-Alignment with Fine-grained Knowledge Feedback for Hallucination Mitigation

ACL 2025finding

Hallucination occurs when large language models exhibit behavior that deviates from the boundaries of their knowledge during response generation. To address this critical issue, previous learning-based methods attempt to finetune models but are limited by off-policy sampling and coarse-grained feedb…

2025

Rethinking Reward Model Evaluation: Are We Barking up the Wrong Tree?

ICLR 2025spotlight

Reward Models (RMs) are crucial for aligning language models with human preferences. Currently, the evaluation of RMs depends on measuring accuracy against a validation set of manually annotated preference data. Although this method is straightforward and widely adopted, the relationship between RM…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2025

The Devil Is in the Details: Tackling Unimodal Spurious Correlations for Generalizable Multimodal Reward Models

ICML 2025poster

Multimodal Reward Models (MM-RMs) are crucial for aligning Large Language Models (LLMs) with human preferences, particularly as LLMs increasingly interact with multimodal data. However, we find that MM-RMs trained on existing datasets often struggle to generalize to out-of-distribution data due to t…

2025

Transferable Post-training via Inverse Value Learning

NAACL 2025long

As post-training processes utilize increasingly large datasets and base models continue to grow in size, the computational demands and implementation challenges of existing algorithms are escalating significantly. In this paper, we propose modeling the changes at the logits level during post-trainin…