Yuchen Mou


2026

Warning: This paper may contain content that could be disturbing or offensive. Content moderation in online platforms faces persistent challenges due to the evolving complexity of user-generated content and the limitations of traditional rule-based and machine learning approaches. While recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled more sophisticated moderation via direct prompting or fine-tuning, these approaches often exhibit limited generalization, interpretability, and adaptability to unseen or ambiguous cases.In this work, we propose a novel moderation framework that leverages analogical examples to enhance rule induction and decision reliability. Our approach integrates end-to-end optimization of analogical retrieval, rule generation, and moderation classification, enabling the dynamic adaptation of moderation rules to diverse content scenarios. Through comprehensive experiments, we demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms both rule-injected fine-tuning baselines and multi-stage static RAG pipelines in terms of moderation accuracy and rule quality. Further evaluations—including human assessments and external model generalization tests confirm the superiority of rules generated by our framework in terms of clarity, interpretability, and applicability. These findings highlight the potential of analogical example-driven methods for advancing robust, explainable, and generalizable content moderation in real-world applications.
Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful post-training paradigm for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). However, reinforcement learning for LLMs faces substantial data scarcity challenges, including the limited availability of high-quality external supervision and the constrained volume of model-generated experience. These limitations make data-efficient reinforcement learning a critical research direction. In this survey, we present the first systematic review of reinforcement learning for LLMs under data scarcity. We propose a bottom-up hierarchical framework built around three complementary perspectives: the data-centric perspective, the training-centric perspective, and the framework-centric perspective. We develop a taxonomy of existing methods, summarize representative approaches in each category, and analyze their strengths and limitations. Our taxonomy aims to provide a clear conceptual foundation for understanding the design space of data-efficient RL for LLMs and to guide researchers working in this emerging area. We hope this survey offers a comprehensive roadmap for future research and inspires new directions toward more efficient and scalable reinforcement learning post-training for LLMs.