Achieving effective self-correction, where models verify and correct their own mistakes, remains a fundamental challenge for large language models (LLMs). In this work, we propose Self-Fix Step-DPO (SFS-DPO), a reinforcement learning based, two-stage framework for step-level self-verification and self-correction.
arXiv:2602. 02416v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Self-correction in language models remains elusive.
By Ankur Samanta, Akshayaa Magesh, Ayush Jain, Kavosh Asadi, Youliang Yu, Daniel Jiang, Boris Vidolov, Kaveh Hassani, Paul Sajda, Jalaj Bhandari, Yonathan Efroni
arXiv:2602. 08503v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Self-correction is essential for solving complex reasoning problems in vision-language models (VLMs).
By Yi Ding, Ziliang Qiu, Bolian Li, Ruqi Zhang
Reflective Recovery is a self‑supervised method that turns failed reasoning attempts into training data, enabling large language models to learn how to correct mistakes during inference. By extracting initial segments of erroneous trajectories and using them as prompts, the approach teaches models to recognize and recover from errors without external critics. Experiments show significant accuracy gains on benchmarks such as AIME 2025 and Minerva, and the method overcomes the scaling collapse problem, fostering emergent self‑correction behaviors.
By Qirui Chen, Renjie Pi, Jiahui Gao, Lingpeng Kong
arXiv:2606. 00020v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) based Chinese Grammatical Error Correction (CGEC) systems face two critical challenges: general-purpose models lack specialized linguistic priors for subtle grammatical distinctions, and Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) with Maximum Likelihood Estimation fails to optimize for precision-focused metrics, leading to systematic over-correction.
By Wei Tian, Yuhao Zhou, Man Lan
Chinese Semantic Error Correction (CSEC) targets semantic errors in Chinese text, which are typically more subtle and complex than spelling and grammatical errors but remain relatively underexplored....
arXiv:2605. 02909v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has become a powerful approach for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs).
By Kazuki Egashira, Mark Vero, Jasper Dekoninck, Florian E. Dorner, Robin Staab, Martin Vechev
arXiv:2609.36804v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Chinese Semantic Error Correction (CSEC) targets semantic errors in Chinese text, which are typically more subtle and complex than spelling and gramm...
By Yitong Han, Nankai Lin, Juan Luo, Hongyan Wu, Lianxi Wang, Shengyi Jiang
arXiv:2507. 02778v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Although large language models (LLMs) have transformed AI, they still make errors and follow unproductive reasoning paths.
By Ken Tsui
arXiv:2607. 05199v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physics reasoning fails structurally in small language models: an error at any step propagates forward, corrupting every inference that follows.
By Raj Jaiswal, Dhruv Jain, Rishabh Dhawan, Sree Krishna Uppalapati, Shin'ichi Satoh, Tanuja Ganu, Rajiv Ratn Shah
The paper introduces Self‑Routing, a post‑training framework that tailors optimization for each sample based on its rollout correctness and confidence. Instead of applying a single recipe to all data, samples are routed to different strategies—GRPO, on‑policy self‑distillation, regularization, or skipped—allowing training to adapt without external teachers or extra annotations. Experiments on Qwen3 and Qwen3.5 show consistent improvements over uniform methods and reveal that the routing distribution evolves during training, reducing unnecessary updates on low‑signal or already stable samples.
By Yifei Li, Lingling Zhang, Muye Huang, Zihan Ma, Jiashuai Liu, Jun Liu
arXiv:2507.21931v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) often produce plausible but poorly-calibrated answers, limiting their reliability on reasoning-intensive tasks....
By Carel van Niekerk, Renato Vukovic, Benjamin Ruppik, Hsien-chin Lin, Shutong Feng, Milica Ga\v{s}i\'c