arXiv:2609.40360v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has improved the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), yet their predictions...
By Junshu Pan, Zhizhang Fu, Shulin Huang, Yiran Ding, Zifan Cheng, Wenqi Shao, Qiaosheng Zhang, Yue Zhang
SIPO (Self‑Instructing Policy Optimization) unifies reinforcement learning with on‑policy self‑distillation by using a contrastive self‑teacher to generate token‑level credit signals. The method samples multiple rollouts per prompt, pairs each with a reference answer and its mistakes, and uses the difference in teacher log‑probabilities to provide dense feedback while still respecting the overall task reward. Experiments on reasoning and code‑generation benchmarks show that SIPO outperforms both RLVR and OPSD baselines without requiring an external teacher or extra generation steps.
By Zhenrui Yue, Huimin Zeng, Yueqi Wang, Yaokun Liu, Fengran Mo, Jinghan Zhang, Mung Yao Jia, Gyuseok Lee, Yang Zhang, Na Wei, Dong Wang
arXiv:2605. 17770v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The advancement of Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) has catalyzed a paradigm shift from reactive ``fast thinking'' text generation to systematic, step-by-step ``slow thinking'' reasoning, unlocking state-of-the-art performance in complex mathematical and logical tasks.
By Junyao Yang, Chen Qian, Kun Wang, Linfeng Zhang, Quanshi Zhang, Yong Liu, Dongrui Liu
HISPO introduces a segment‑level policy‑optimization technique for reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards, creating entropy‑derived contiguous segments during rollout and applying clipped importance‑sampling correction at this granularity. It bridges the gap between token‑level and sequence‑level corrections, offering a middle‑ground approach for credit assignment in long‑form mathematical reasoning. Evaluated on Qwen3‑1.7B‑Base across six benchmarks, HISPO consistently outperforms or matches the strongest baselines in Pass@8 and Acc@8 metrics, notably improving AIME25 scores over GRPO and GSPO.
By Quoc-Vinh Lai-Dang, Hyo-Sang Shin
arXiv:2606. 18810v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has driven substantial progress in training LLMs for reasoning tasks, but representative methods such as GRPO assign uniform credit across all tokens, wasting gradient on routine tokens while under-crediting pivotal reasoning steps.
By Yingyu Shan, Yuhang Guo, Zihao Cheng, Zeming Liu, Xiangrong Zhu, Xinyi Wang, Jiashu Yao, Wei Lin, Hongru Wang, Heyan Huang
arXiv:2609.37119v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Recent approaches to reinforcement learning (RL) post-training for large language models increasingly remove the critic to reduce training instabilit...
By Hongyang Li, Xiao Li, Caesar Wu, Said Mammar, Gr\'egoire Danoy, Pascal Bouvry