Qingnan Ren
Author directory2026
Internalizing Meta-Experience into Memory for Guided Reinforcement Learning in Large Language Models
Shiting Huang | Zecheng Li | Yu Zeng | Qingnan Ren | Zhen Fang | Qisheng Su | Kou Shi | Ziao Zhang | Lin Chen | Zehui Chen | Feng Zhao
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Shiting Huang | Zecheng Li | Yu Zeng | Qingnan Ren | Zhen Fang | Qisheng Su | Kou Shi | Ziao Zhang | Lin Chen | Zehui Chen | Feng Zhao
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as an effective approach for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite its efficacy, RLVR faces a meta-learning bottleneck: it lacks mechanisms for error attribution and experience internalization intrinsic to the human learning cycle beyond practice and verification, thereby limiting fine-grained credit assignment and reusable knowledge formation. We term such reusable knowledge representations derived from past errors as meta-experience. Based on this insight, we propose **M**eta-**E**xperience **L**earning (**MEL**), a novel framework that incorporates self-distilled meta-experience into the model’s parametric memory. Building upon standard RLVR, we introduce an additional design that leverages the LLM’s self-verification capability to conduct contrastive analysis on paired correct and incorrect trajectories, identify the precise bifurcation points where reasoning errors arise, and summarize them into generalizable meta-experience. The meta-experience is further internalized into the LLM’s parametric memory by minimizing the negative log-likelihood, which induces a language-modeled reward signal that bridges correct and incorrect reasoning trajectories and facilitates effective knowledge reuse. Experimental results demonstrate that MEL achieves consistent improvements on benchmarks, yielding 3.92%–4.73% Pass@1 gains across varying model sizes.
Video-DeepResearch: Towards the Next-Generation Multimodal Deepresearch Agent
Zhen Fang | Yu Zeng | Wenxuan Huang | Yiming Zhao | Shiting Huang | Tianfei Ren | Qi Lu | Qingnan Ren | Qisheng Su | Lionel Z. Wang | Qingyu Yin | Shuang Chen | Zehui Chen | Lin Chen | Zhenfei Yin | Yao Hu | Shaohui Lin | Wanli Ouyang | Shaosheng Cao | Feng Zhao
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Zhen Fang | Yu Zeng | Wenxuan Huang | Yiming Zhao | Shiting Huang | Tianfei Ren | Qi Lu | Qingnan Ren | Qisheng Su | Lionel Z. Wang | Qingyu Yin | Shuang Chen | Zehui Chen | Lin Chen | Zhenfei Yin | Yao Hu | Shaohui Lin | Wanli Ouyang | Shaosheng Cao | Feng Zhao
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
We introduce Video-DeepResearch (Video-DR), extending multimodal agents from static images to continuous video streams, a setting that demands dense spatiotemporal grounding coupled with open-web exploration. Preliminary evaluations reveal two critical bottlenecks in current models: (1) modality bias, where agents bypass visual tools in favor of textual search, and (2) parametric knowledge leakage, where models rely on internal memory rather than genuine tool-augmented execution. To address these challenges, we propose Video-DeepResearch, featuring a decoupled perception-exploration pipeline with stage-wise tool unlocking that compels exhaustive cross-frame visual grounding prior to web retrieval. Our framework adopts a two-stage training recipe—supervised fine-tuning followed by Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO)—enabling autonomous exploration that breaks the imitation-learning ceiling. Furthermore, we curate VideoDR-Bench, a human-AI collaborative benchmark comprising 200 complex, multi-hop VQA instances. Empirical results demonstrate that our Video-DeepResearch-35B-A3B establishes a new state-of-the-art of 64.0% average accuracy, surpassing proprietary Claude-4.5-Sonnet (59.0%) by 5.0 points and significantly outperforming GPT-5 (52.5%) and Gemini 2.5 Pro (57.5%). The 30B-A3B variant achieves 59.3%, competitive with Claude-4.5-Sonnet and demonstrating the effectiveness of our training paradigm even at compact scale.
ADORA: Training Reasoning Models with Dynamic Advantage Estimation on Reinforcement Learning
Qingnan Ren | Shiting Huang | Zhen Fang | Zehui Chen | Lin Chen | Lijun Li | Feng Zhao
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Qingnan Ren | Shiting Huang | Zhen Fang | Zehui Chen | Lin Chen | Lijun Li | Feng Zhao
Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Reinforcement learning has become a cornerstone technique for developing reasoning models in complex tasks, ranging from mathematical problem-solving to imaginary reasoning. The optimization of these models typically relies on policy gradient methods, whose efficacy hinges on the accurate estimation of an advantage function. However, prevailing methods typically employ static advantage estimation, a practice that leads to inefficient credit assignment by neglecting the dynamic utility of training samples over time. This limitation results in suboptimal policy updates, which in turn manifest as slower convergence rates and increased learning instability, as models fail to adapt to evolving sample utilities effectively. To address this problem, we introduce ADORA (Advantage Dynamics via Online Rollout Adaptation), a novel framework for policy optimization. ADORA dynamically adjusts the advantage function’s weighting by adaptively categorizing training data into temporarily advantageous and disadvantageous samples, based on their evolving utility during online model rollouts. This tailored data differentiation strategy allows ADORA to be seamlessly integrated into existing policy optimization algorithms without significant architectural modifications, enabling the policy to prioritize learning from more informative experiences and thereby achieve more efficient policy updates. Extensive evaluations across diverse model families and varying data scales demonstrate that ADORA is a robust and efficient framework. It significantly enhances long reasoning in both geometric and mathematical tasks, consistently achieving notable performance gains without requiring sensitive hyperparameter tuning.