arXiv:2510. 18814v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Can language models improve their reasoning performance without external rewards, using only their own sampled responses for training?
By Mengqi Li, Lei Zhao, Anthony Man-Cho So, Ruoyu Sun, Xiao Li
arXiv:2603. 19294v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While post-training has successfully improved large language models (LLMs) across a variety of domains, these gains heavily rely on human-labeled data or external verifiers.
By Hyunji Nam, Haoran Li, Natasha Jaques
arXiv:2607. 02460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-training large language models (LLMs) without real-world interaction feedback or human-labeled supervision remains challenging, particularly in specialized domains where expert annotations are costly to obtain.
By Zhuowei Chen, Xiang Lorraine Li
arXiv:2510. 03259v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent research on reasoning models explores the meta-awareness of language models, including their ability to determine optimal thinking duration, recognize knowledge boundaries, and structure concept-level thinking.
By Yoonjeon Kim, Doohyuk Jang, Eunho Yang
arXiv:2608. 17253v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a powerful approach for improving reasoning in language and vision-language models, yet its strongest successes still depend heavily on ground-truth supervision (e.
By Yunhao Yang, Yuexin Bian, Yunjie Tian, Di Fu, Tianjin Huang, Yuanyuan Shi, Ziang Xiao, Nuno Vasconcelos, Yijiang Li
Post-training large language models (LLMs) without real-world interaction feedback or human-labeled supervision remains challenging, particularly in specialized domains where expert annotations are costly to obtain. Recent annotation-free self-evolution methods address this by using the model's own outputs as supervision signals, constructing a teacher via additional context and aggregating predictions across multiple rollouts through majority voting to produce pseudo-labels.
arXiv:2602. 10352v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Self-interpretation methods prompt language models to describe their own internal states, but remain unreliable due to hyperparameter sensitivity.
By Keenan Pepper, Alex McKenzie, Florin Pop, Stijn Servaes, Martin Leitgab, Mike Vaiana, Judd Rosenblatt, Michael S. A. Graziano, Diogo de Lucena
arXiv:2607. 21090v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose a Reinforcement Learning (RL) method to directly optimize the faithfulness of self-explanations - the extent to which a model's generated reasoning accurately reflects its internal decision-making process.
By Yeoktatt Cheah, Mar\'ia P\'erez-Ortiz, Noah Y. Siegel, Oana-Maria Camburu
arXiv:2606. 09052v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Self-evolution offers a scalable path to stronger reasoning: a pretrained language model improves itself with only minimal external supervision.
By Siyu Chen, Miao Lu, Beining Wu, Heejune Sheen, Fengzhuo Zhang, Shuangning Li, Zhiyuan Li, Jose Blanchet, Tianhao Wang, Zhuoran Yang
Post-training of reasoning language models is commonly driven by supervised distillation and reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards. Distillation often relies on chain-of-thought annotations that are expensive to obtain and may themselves be noisy, incomplete, or partially incorrect; even when the final solution is correct, an imperfect rationale can interfere with learning.
arXiv:2606. 19327v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training of reasoning language models is commonly driven by supervised distillation and reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards.
By Siyi Gu, Jialin Chen, Sophia Zhou, Arman Cohan, Rex Ying
arXiv:2607. 23125v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training enables vision-language models (VLMs) to understand human instructions and perform various downstream tasks.
By Shuai Wang, Daoan Zhang, Zhe Tang, Hao Cheng, Jiaheng Wei