arXiv Computation and Language

Learning Perception to Action Rules through Reinforcement Learning for Theory-of-Mind Reasoning

arXiv AI
Aug 19

SignalReasoner: Assessing the Upper Bound of 3B Models for Signal Mathematical Reasoning

SignalReasoner evaluates reinforcement fine‑tuning methods for the Qwen2.5‑3B‑Base language model on graduate‑level signal processing math problems from the WirelessMATHBench‑XL benchmark. Two training paradigms are compared: direct reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards, and supervised chain‑of‑thought fine‑tuning followed by domain‑specific reinforcement learning. The study benchmarks three policy optimization algorithms—GRPO, GSPO, and GMPO—to determine if domain‑aware chain‑of‑thought initialization improves performance, achieving a best accuracy of 39.12% versus 12.37% for the untrained base model.

By Guozheng Sun
arXiv AI
Aug 28

From Accuracy to Robustness: A Study of Rule- and Model-based Verifiers in Mathematical Reasoning

The paper investigates the reliability of rule- and model-based verifiers used in reinforcement learning with verifiable reward (RLVR) for mathematical reasoning. It finds that rule-based verifiers often miss equivalent answers in different formats, causing false negatives that degrade RL performance as models improve. Model-based verifiers achieve higher static accuracy but become vulnerable to reward hacking during RL, misclassifying certain response patterns as correct after fine-tuning.

By Yuzhen Huang, Weihao Zeng, Xingshan Zeng, Qi Zhu, Junxian He
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

ConSteer-RL: Steering Reasoning Capabilities in Large Language Models via Confidence-Aware Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606. 08088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has recently become a key paradigm for improving the reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet it remains limited by sparse binary rewards and its ignorance of model-internal uncertainty.

By Qing Miao, Yiming Zhao, Jing Yang, Chenxi Liu, Yuehai Chen, Yuewen Liu, Shaoyi Du, Badong Chen
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 7

ConsensusBench: Benchmark of Consensus Nodes for LLM Reasoning via Outcome Reward Densifying

ConsensusBench is a new dataset that supplies rule‑based process‑level signals for large language model reasoning. It identifies key intermediate conclusions—called Consensus Nodes—by filtering correct trajectories and clustering semantically equivalent statements. By incorporating a process reward derived from these nodes into GRPO‑style reinforcement learning, the authors create ConsensusPR, which reduces reward sparsity and improves performance on benchmarks such as AIME, GSM8K, and MATH‑500.

By Shi-Qi Yan, Chao-Hong Tan, Qian Chen, Wen Wang, Xiangang Li, Zhen-Hua Ling