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Localizing Credit at the Divergence: Path-Conditioned Self-Distillation for LLM Reasoning

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arXiv:2606. 15576v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards assigns a single scalar to each rollout, leaving token-level credit assignment underspecified in long reasoning traces.

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