arXiv Computation and Language By Miguel Moura Ramos, Duarte M. Alves, Andr\'e F. T. Martins

A Recipe for Long-Context Reasoning in Large Language Models via On-Policy Optimization and Distillation

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The paper proposes a new method for training large language models to handle long-context reasoning by combining Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) with on‑policy distillation (OPD). It introduces a synthetic multilingual dataset called LongBlocks that tests multi‑hop reasoning, contextual grounding, and long‑form generation. Experiments show that the combined approach outperforms either GRPO or OPD alone while maintaining short‑context performance.

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