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Semih Yavuz

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#artificial intelligence Preprint Sep 2026

Understanding the Synergy between SFT, RLVR, and OPD in LLM Post-Training

Modern LLM post-training composes supervised fine-tuning (SFT), reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), and on-policy distillation (OPD) into multi-stage pipelines, yet these stages are typically designed and evaluated in isolation. We show that this composition is consequential: a stage that improves th...

Emre Can Acikgoz, Yang Li, Z. Liu et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Sep 2026

EvoHarnessBench: Can Your Agents Keep Pace with an Evolving Harness?

EvoHarnessBench is introduced, a benchmark for evaluating agents under controlled harness evolution across three axes (tools, skills, and agents), and establishes harness evolution as a distinct challenge for building agents that can keep pace with an evolving harness while preserving previously effective behavior.

Zi-Xuan Ke, Vaidehi Patil, Hai-Zhou Shi et al. · 1 citation
#machine learning Preprint Aug 2026

Learning Generalizable Behaviors for Terminal Agents

River, a simple training recipe that improves reward quality by filtering low-quality environments and augmenting outcome rewards with process-level behavior regularization is proposed, which achieves the best performance among evaluated open-source RL-trained 8B models across four terminal-agent benchmarks.

Yi-Fan Yao, Bo Pang, Xuan-Phi Nguyen et al. · 2 citations
Preprint Jul 2026

Procedural Memory Distillation: Online Reflection for Self-Improving Language Models

Procedural Memory Distillation is proposed, which converts crossepisode signals into reusable procedural memory and distills it into the policy's weights during training, yielding a memory-free model at inference.

Ye Liu, Srijan Bansal, Bo Pang et al. · 2 citations

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