arXiv:2601. 18778v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: RL methods for scaling large reasoning models stall on datasets with low initial success rates, and thus little training signal.
By Shobhita Sundaram, John Quan, Ariel Kwiatkowski, Kartik Ahuja, Yann Ollivier, Julia Kempe
arXiv:2609.13997v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has shown remarkable success in improving the mathematical reasoning of large language models. Ye...
By Yukang Zhu, Zhen Han
arXiv:2601. 15158v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Transformers trained via Reinforcement Learning (RL) with outcome-based supervision can spontaneously develop the ability to generate intermediate reasoning steps (Chain-of-Thought).
By Yuval Ran-Milo, Yotam Alexander, Shahar Mendel, Nadav Cohen
arXiv:2607. 07646v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Does RL post-training merely amplify primitive skills already latent in a base model, or can it compose primitive skills into new higher-level strategies?
By Azwar Abdulsalam, Nishil Patel, Andrew Saxe
arXiv:2608. 01522v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Teaching a language model a skill it has not mastered is obstructed by three recurring difficulties: training data is scarce, ground-truth reasoning traces are usually unavailable, and models often exhibit an apparent ceiling beyond which additional data yields no further improvement.
By Longtian Bao, Jianyou Wang, Yang Zhang, Youze Zheng, Ramamohan Paturi
The paper investigates reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) by expanding the reasoning space beyond depth to include environment complexity and diverse reasoning forms. It introduces a synthetic knowledge‑graph environment that varies depth, complexity, and task family, revealing that joint depth‑complexity coverage outperforms single‑axis approaches, that different reasoning families behave non‑uniformly, and that uniform mixing beats staged curricula under a fixed budget. The study also shows that current off‑the‑shelf models share a deductive‑over‑abductive bias, indicating a broader gap in reasoning capabilities.
By Yihua Zhu, Qianying Liu, Fei Cheng, Jiaxin Wang, Akiko Aizawa, Sadao Kurohashi, Hidetoshi Shimodaira