Other people with similar names: Yang Janet Liu (Georgetown University; 刘洋), Yang Liu, Yang Liu (Fudan), Yang Liu (BIGAI), Yang Liu, Yang Liu, Yang Liu, Yang Liu, Yang Liu, Yang Liu, Yang Liu (Hunan), Yang Liu, Yang Liu, Yang Liu (3M Health Information Systems), Yang Liu, Yang Liu, Yang Liu, Yang Liu (UC Santa Cruz), Yang Liu (South China University of Technology), Yang Liu, Yang Liu, Yang Liu, Yang Liu (NTU), Yang Liu (Sun Yat-sen University), Yang Liu, Yang Liu (North Carolina Central University), Yang Liu, Yang Liu (Beijing Language and Culture University), Yang Liu (National University of Defense Technology), Yang Liu (Edinburgh Ph.D., Microsoft), Yang Liu (University of Helsinki), Yang Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)), Yang Liu (刘扬) (刘扬; Ph.D Purdue; ICSI, Dallas, Facebook, Liulishuo, Amazon), Yang Liu (刘洋) (刘洋; ICT, Tsinghua, Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence), Yang Liu (Microsoft Cognitive Services Research), Yang Liu (刘扬) (Peking University), Yang Liu (Samsung Research Center Beijing), Yang Liu (Tianjin University, China), Yang Liu (Univ. of Michigan, UC Santa Cruz), Yang Liu (Wilfrid Laurier University)

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2026

Despite the remarkable progress of reinforcement learning for large language models, effective exploration remains a persistent challenge, as policies may collapse into recurrent failure modes and repeatedly generate similar erroneous behaviors across rollouts. While classical entropy regularization promotes randomness under the current policy, it provides limited mechanisms for recognizing and suppressing such recurrent failure patterns over time. To address this limitation, we propose MEDS, a Memory-Enhanced Dynamic reward Shaping framework that augments the reward signal with informative cues from historical behaviors. MEDS turns intermediate model representations into a lightweight behavioral memory that captures reasoning patterns from past rollouts, enabling dynamic reward shaping that steers the policy away from recurrent failure modes and toward alternative solution paths. Across five datasets and three base models, MEDS consistently improves average performance over existing baselines, achieving gains of up to 4.13 Pass@1 points and 4.37 Pass@128 points. LLM-based annotations and diversity metrics further confirm that MEDS promotes more diverse sampling behaviors. Our code is available at https://github.com/Linxi000/MEDS.