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Shen Yin

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#machine learning Preprint Sep 2026

IncentRL: The Trade-Off Between Preference Guidance and Task Performance

Preference-based reward shaping can guide reinforcement learning, but adding preference signals to the reward may unintentionally change the task being optimized. We address this problem with IncentRL, a framework that introduces preference guidance while explicitly characterizing its effect on external-task performanc...

Xue-Ning Wu, Yan-Lan Kang, Shen Yin · 0 citations

SGM: A Statistical Godel Machine for Risk-Controlled Recursive Self-Modification

The Statistical Godel Machine is introduced, the first statistical safety layer for recursive edits, which replaces proof-based requirements with statistical confidence tests (e-values, Hoeffding bounds), admitting a modification only when superiority is certified at a chosen confidence level, while allocating a global...

Xue-Ning Wu, Shen Yin, Yan-Lan Kang et al. · 9 citations · ⚡1

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