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Jianfeng Gao

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arxivcs.AIcs.CL2026-07-23

OpenForgeRL: Train Harness-native Agents in Any Environment

Xiao Yu, Baolin Peng, Ruize Xu, Hao Zou, Qianhui Wu, Hao Cheng, et al.

Modern AI agents rely on elaborate inference harnesses such as Claude Code, Codex, and OpenClaw to drive multi-turn reasoning, tool use, and access to external systems. While powerful, these complex harnesses also make agents hard to train end-to-end with open infrastructure, who…

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arxivcs.LG2026-07-15

TRACE: Turn-level Reward Assignment via Credit Estimation for Long-Horizon Agents

Leitian Tao, Baolin Peng, Wenlin Yao, Tao Ge, Hao Cheng, Mike Hang Wang, et al.

Multi-turn agents solve complex tasks through extended sequences of tool interactions before producing a final answer, making credit assignment a fundamental challenge during post-training. Outcome rewards provide reliable supervision for short-horizon reasoning, but become spars…

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arxivcs.LGcs.AIcs.CL2026-07-15

Data-Efficient Adaptation of LLMs via Attention Head Reweighting

Tuomas Oikarinen, Zixiao Chen, Charlotte Siska, Tsui-Wei Weng, Chandan Singh, Jianfeng Gao

Learning effectively from limited data is critical in domains like security where labeled examples are scarce. Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated some capabilities for data-efficient learning, especially through parameter-efficient adaptation methods, but continue to…

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arxivcs.CLcs.LG2026-07-15

GFlowRL: Scaling Distribution-Matching RL to Large Language Models

Xiaodong Liu, Michael Xu, Jack W. Stokes, Paul Smolensky, Doug Burger, Jianfeng Gao

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) offer a promising alternative to reward-maximizing reinforcement learning (RL) for large reasoning models, encouraging diverse reasoning paths by matching reward distributions rather than collapsing to dominant modes. Recent work shows promise…

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