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: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 introduces SOLID, a framework that enables operations research language models to self-improve without relying on verified answers or external evaluators. SOLID uses solver-generated artifacts from the model’s own rollouts to create pseudo-references, clustering objectives and applying group-relative advantages for dense self-supervision. Experiments on multiple OR benchmarks show that SOLID enhances solution accuracy for both general-purpose and OR-tuned models compared to outcome-only training.
By Rui Zhu, Minglong Cao, Chenyu Zhou, Jianghao Lin, Dongdong Ge
The paper introduces Self‑Play Pretraining with Zero Data, a proof‑of‑concept method that lets a model generate its own training data by searching over all computable processes using a universal Turing machine. Two models— a generator that proposes byte‑sequence programs and a learner that predicts those sequences—train together, with the generator rewarded for producing data at the learner’s frontier, creating an adaptive curriculum. Experiments show that zero‑shot performance on natural datasets scales predictably with compute, and the models exhibit in‑context learning and discover mathematical sequences during training.
By Aditya Cowsik, Kfir Dolev, Michael Y. Li, G. Bruno De Luca, Nourya Cohen, Noah D. Goodman, Yoav Levine
arXiv:2609.00768v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Self-play supports the self-evolution of language models, but solver performance can plateau or decline across rounds without guidance. Existing un...
By Xincheng Wei, Yifan Ding, Fucheng Xiong, Yoshua Li, Dongsheng Ma, Rongxiang Weng, Xunliang Cai, Wenjian Ding, Yao Zhang
DiagEvo is a self‑evolution framework that guides language‑model training by extracting recurring error causes from a solver’s own failure history and storing them in a hierarchical error‑cause memory. The system classifies causes as Active or Mastered, uses this information to balance targeted question generation with exploration, and applies double‑confidence filtering to keep only intermediate‑difficulty questions. Experiments show that DiagEvo outperforms baselines on nine benchmarks for three solvers, achieving up to 72.3% mean accuracy on five mathematical reasoning tasks.
By Xincheng Wei, Yifan Ding, Yoshua Li, Dongsheng Ma, Rongxiang Weng, Xunliang Cai, Wenjian Ding, Yao Zhang