arXiv AI By Ruotian Peng, Yi Ren, Zhouliang Yu, Weiyang Liu, Yandong Wen

Beyond the Sampled Token: Preserving Candidate Support in RLVR

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arXiv:2510. 14807v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We revisit exploration collapse in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), from the perspective of the \emph{candidate distribution} for next-token prediction.

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