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Zhiyu Mei

7 accepted papers

2026

AReaL-DTA: Dynamic Tree Attention for Efficient Reinforcement Learning of Large Language Models

ICML 2026poster

Reinforcement learning (RL) based post-training for large language models (LLMs) is computationally expensive, as it generates many rollout sequences that could frequently share long token prefixes. Existing RL frameworks usually process these sequences independently, repeatedly recomputing identica…

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2026

Unlocking Long-Horizon Agentic Search with Large-Scale End-to-End RL

ICLR 2026poster

Recent advancements in LLM-based agents have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in handling knowledge-intensive tasks using external tools. One representative example is search agent. Existing open-source search agents heavily rely on advanced commercial LLMs: they either collect trajectories from…

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2025

AREAL: A Large-Scale Asynchronous Reinforcement Learning System for Language Reasoning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a trending paradigm for training large language models (LLMs), particularly for reasoning tasks. Effective RL for LLMs requires massive parallelization and poses an urgent need for efficient training systems. Most existing large-scale RL systems for LLMs are sy…

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2025

How Far Are We from Optimal Reasoning Efficiency?

NeurIPS 2025poster

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) demonstrate remarkable problem-solving capabilities through extended Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning but often produce excessively verbose and redundant reasoning traces. This inefficiency incurs high inference costs and limits practical deployment. While existing fine…

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2024

Is DPO Superior to PPO for LLM Alignment? A Comprehensive Study

ICML 2024oral

Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is currently the most widely used method to align large language models (LLMs) with human preferences. Existing RLHF methods can be roughly categorized as either reward-based or reward-free. Novel applications such as ChatGPT and Claude leverage rewa…

2024

SRL: Scaling Distributed Reinforcement Learning to Over Ten Thousand Cores

ICLR 2024poster

The ever-growing complexity of reinforcement learning (RL) tasks demands a distributed system to efficiently generate and process a massive amount of data. However, existing open-source libraries suffer from various limitations, which impede their practical use in challenging scenarios where large-s…

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