arXiv AI

Ask-E: An Environment for Calibrated Question Generation

arXiv:2608. 06933v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Today, we improve models by training and evaluating them on problems at the frontier of their abilities.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Question Begets Question: Self-Evolving Curriculum for Reinforcement Fine-Tuning on Competition Mathematics

arXiv:2608. 01522v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Teaching a language model a skill it has not mastered is obstructed by three recurring difficulties: training data is scarce, ground-truth reasoning traces are usually unavailable, and models often exhibit an apparent ceiling beyond which additional data yields no further improvement.

By Longtian Bao, Jianyou Wang, Yang Zhang, Youze Zheng, Ramamohan Paturi
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

TTSR: Test-Time Self-Evolving via Reflection

TTSR (Test-Time Self-Reflection) is a framework that enables large language models to adapt during inference by alternating between a Student role that solves test questions and a Teacher role that analyzes failures and generates targeted variant questions. The method incorporates a weakness memory and a strategy note to guide exploration, reducing reliance on noisy pseudo-labels and inefficient rollouts. Experiments on mathematical reasoning benchmarks demonstrate consistent test-time improvements, strong cross-backbone generalization, and transfer to general-domain reasoning tasks.

By Haoyang He, Zihua Rong, Yunjia Zhao, Lan Yang, Jian Chang, Honggang Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 2

Benchmarking at the Edge of Comprehension

arXiv:2602. 14307v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As frontier Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly saturate new benchmarks shortly after they are published, benchmarking itself is at a juncture: if frontier models keep improving, it will become increasingly hard for humans to generate discriminative tasks, provide accurate ground-truth answers, or evaluate complex solutions.

By Samuele Marro, Jialin Yu, Emanuele La Malfa, Oishi Deb, Jiawei Li, Yibo Yang, Ebey Abraham, Sunando Sengupta, Eric Sommerlade, Michael Wooldridge, Philip Torr
arXiv AI
Jun 26

NebulaExp-8B: An Empirical Post-Training Pipeline via Full-Scale Ablation Research

arXiv:2606. 26671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training alignment determines the reasoning and human preference following capabilities of large language models, yet most existing works withhold detailed data construction, filtering rules and training recipes, which hinders community reproducibility and lightweight model optimization.

By Qiaobo Hao, Yangqian Wu, Shunyi Wang, Zhongjian Zhang, Ziqun Li, Yayin He, Muqing Li, Chen Zhong
arXiv AI
Aug 17

The Metacognitive Bottleneck: Japanese Riddles Reveal Fundamental Limits of Machine Insight and Self-Evaluation in Reasoning AI

arXiv:2509. 14704v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Benchmark saturation and training-data contamination increasingly obscure whether reported gains in large language models (LLMs) reflect genuine advances in reasoning or familiarity with recurring patterns in benchmark problems.

By Masaharu Mizumoto, Dat Nguyen, Zhiheng Han, Xingfu Li, Yo Nakawake, Le Minh Nguyen
arXiv AI
Sep 24

The Tasteful Agent: Measuring and Improving Taste in Long-Horizon Tasks

The paper introduces the concept of an agent’s "taste"—its ability to make effective long‑horizon decisions—and presents Taste‑Bench, a new benchmark that automatically generates decision‑fork questions from agent trajectories. Taste‑Bench evaluates models on choosing the best path without seeing future outcomes, revealing that top models answer only about 60% of questions correctly and that later‑appearing evidence makes forks harder. The authors also demonstrate that training a student model to mimic a teacher’s judgment improves decision quality and overall success on held‑out software engineering tasks.

By Wenbo Pan, Zhichao Liu, Shujie Liu, Jingying Zeng, Chin-Yew Lin, Xianfeng Tang, Yan Lu, Qi He, Xiaohua Jia