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Yuxuan Tong

6 accepted papers

2026

The Optimal Token Baseline: Variance Reduction for Long-Horizon LLM-RL

ICML 2026poster

Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models (LLMs) often suffers from training collapse in long-horizon tasks due to exploding gradient variance. To mitigate this, baseline is commonly introduced for advantage computation; however, traditional value models remain difficult to optimize, and stan…

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2026

Trust Region Masking for Long-Horizon LLM Reinforcement Learning

ICML 2026poster

Policy gradient methods for Large Language Models (LLMs) optimize a policy $\pi_\theta$ via a surrogate objective computed from samples of a rollout policy $\pi_{\text{roll}}$. However, modern LLM-RL pipelines suffer from unavoidable implementation divergences—such as backend discrepancies, Mixture-…

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2025

DAPO: An Open-Source LLM Reinforcement Learning System at Scale

NeurIPS 2025poster

Inference scaling empowers LLMs with unprecedented reasoning ability, with reinforcement learning as the core technique to elicit complex reasoning. However, key technical details of state-of-the-art reasoning LLMs are concealed (such as in OpenAI o1 blog and DeepSeek R1 technical report), thus the…

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2024

DART-Math: Difficulty-Aware Rejection Tuning for Mathematical Problem-Solving

NeurIPS 2024poster

Solving mathematical problems requires advanced reasoning abilities and presents notable challenges for large language models. Previous works usually synthesize data from proprietary models to augment existing datasets, followed by instruction tuning to achieve top-tier results. However, our analysi…

2023

ImageReward: Learning and Evaluating Human Preferences for Text-to-Image Generation

NeurIPS 2023poster

We present a comprehensive solution to learn and improve text-to-image models from human preference feedback. To begin with, we build ImageReward---the first general-purpose text-to-image human preference reward model---to effectively encode human preferences. Its training is based on our systematic…