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Zican Hu

6 accepted papers

2026

Diversity-Incentivized Exploration for Versatile Reasoning

ICLR 2026poster

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a crucial paradigm for incentivizing reasoning capabilities in Large Language Models (LLMs). Due to vast state-action spaces and reward sparsity in reasoning tasks, existing methods often struggle with deficient exploration and poo…

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2025

Divide and Conquer: Grounding LLMs as Efficient Decision-Making Agents via Offline Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

ICML 2025poster

While showing sophisticated reasoning abilities, large language models (LLMs) still struggle with long-horizon decision-making tasks due to deficient exploration and long-term credit assignment, especially in sparse-reward scenarios. Inspired by the divide-and-conquer principle, we propose an innova…

2025

Learning to Reason under Off-Policy Guidance

NeurIPS 2025poster

Recent advances in large reasoning models (LRMs) demonstrate that sophisticated behaviors such as multi-step reasoning and self-reflection can emerge via reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards~(RLVR). However, existing RLVR approaches are inherently ``on-policy'', limiting learning to a mod…

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2025

Mixture-of-Experts Meets In-Context Reinforcement Learning

NeurIPS 2025poster

In-context reinforcement learning (ICRL) has emerged as a promising paradigm for adapting RL agents to downstream tasks through prompt conditioning. However, two notable challenges remain in fully harnessing in-context learning within RL domains: the intrinsic multi-modality of the state-action-rewa…

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2025

Text-to-Decision Agent: Offline Meta-Reinforcement Learning from Natural Language Supervision

NeurIPS 2025poster

Offline meta-RL usually tackles generalization by inferring task beliefs from high-quality samples or warmup explorations. The restricted form limits their generality and usability since these supervision signals are expensive and even infeasible to acquire in advance for unseen tasks. Learning dire…

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2024

Attention-Guided Contrastive Role Representations for Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning

ICLR 2024poster

Real-world multi-agent tasks usually involve dynamic team composition with the emergence of roles, which should also be a key to efficient cooperation in multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL). Drawing inspiration from the correlation between roles and agent's behavior patterns, we propose a nove…