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What RL Brings to Reasoning: A Few Decisions the Base Model Would Not Make

Siyu Zhang, Yuquan Lu, Yoshua Y. Li, Yifan Ding, Kun Zeng, Yu Huo · Oct 17, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/2 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 90% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics MathCoding
  • Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Open paper
Base Models Can Reason By Taking a Cue From Training Data

Sophie L. Wang, Amil Dravid, Rulin Shao, Kevin Farhat, Sewon Min, Alexei A. Efros · Oct 5, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/2 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 90% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics MathCoding
  • Finally, we extend our study of token cues with a case study in language model safety, finding that different cues elicit distinct refusal and compliance behaviors that correspond to different types of training data.
Open paper
ELF-REG: Scaling Continuous Diffusion Language Models to Reasoning Tasks

Zeyu Michael Li, William Xingxu Chen, Bingshuo Qian, Jiayin Liu, Xiang Cheng · Sep 24, 2026

Citations: 0

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Score: 90% High protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Fallback
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon MathCoding
  • ELF-REG-L achieves 55.96% pass@1 on GSM8K at 64 network function evaluations (NFE), and 13.39% on MATH-500 and 22.56% on HumanEval at 128 NFE.
  • At 16 NFE, ELF-REG-L reaches 41.21% HumanEval pass@10, outperforming recent continuous dLMs of comparable scale.
Open paper
JetSpec: Breaking the Scaling Ceiling of Speculative Decoding with Parallel Tree Drafting

Lanxiang Hu, Zhaoxiang Feng, Yulun Wu, Haoran Yuan, Yujie Zhao, Yu-Yang Qian · Jun 16, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/2 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 78% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics MathCoding
  • Across math, coding, and chat benchmarks on dense and MoE Qwen3 models, JetSpec consistently outperforms bidirectional-head and tree-based SD baselines.
Open paper
Shorthand for Thought: Compressing LLM Reasoning via Entropy-Guided Supertokens

Zhenyu Zhao, Sander Land, Daniel M. Bikel, Waseem Alshikh · Apr 29, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/2 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 78% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics MathCoding
  • Across three model families and five mathematical reasoning benchmarks, our approach shortens reasoning traces by 8.1% on average; under a TOST equivalence analysis at a +/- 2pp margin, accuracy is equivalent or inconclusive on 13/15 model…
Open paper
Reliable Control-Point Selection for Steering Reasoning in Large Language Models

Haomin Zhuang, Hojun Yoo, Xiaonan Luo, Kehan Guo, Xiangliang Zhang · Apr 2, 2026

Citations: 0

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Score: 78% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
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  • Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Open paper
Online Reasoning Calibration: Test-Time Training Enables Generalizable Conformal LLM Reasoning

Cai Zhou, Zekai Wang, Menghua Wu, Qianyu Julie Zhu, Flora C. Shi, Chenyu Wang · Apr 1, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/2 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 78% High protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
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  • Under zero-shot out-of-domain settings, it improves MATH-500 savings from 24.8% of the static calibration baseline to 67.0% while maintaining a low empirical error rate, and the same trend holds across model families and downstream…
Open paper
Overconfident Errors Need Stronger Correction: Asymmetric Confidence Penalties for Reinforcement Learning

Yuanda Xu, Hejian Sang, Zhengze Zhou, Ran He, Zhipeng Wang · Feb 24, 2026

Citations: 0

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Score: 78% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
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  • Evaluated on MATH-500 and AIME 2025, ACE composes seamlessly with existing methods and consistently improves the full Pass@k spectrum across all three model families and benchmarks.
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KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

Konrad Staniszewski, Adrian Łańcucki · Nov 3, 2025

Citations: 0

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Score: 78% High protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics MathCoding
  • We test KVTC with Llama 3, Mistral NeMo, and R1-Qwen 2.5 models across benchmarks including AIME25, GSM8K, LiveCodeBench, LongBench, MATH-500, MMLU, Qasper and RULER.
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Tool Verification for Test-Time Reinforcement Learning

Ruotong Liao, Nikolai Röhrich, Xiaohan Wang, Yuhui Zhang, Yasaman Samadzadeh, Volker Tresp · Mar 2, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/2 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 75% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
Tool Use MathCoding
  • Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Open paper
What If We Allocate Test-Time Compute Adaptively?

Ahsan Bilal, Ahmed Mohsin, Muhammad Umer, Ali Subhan, Hassan Rizwan, Ayesha Mohsin · Feb 1, 2026

Citations: 0

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Score: 75% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
Long Horizon Math
  • For each problem, the agent runs multiple inference iterations.
  • Across datasets, our dynamic, PRM-guided approach consistently outperforms direct test-time scaling, yielding large gains on MATH-500 and several-fold improvements on harder benchmarks such as AIME24 and AMO-Bench.
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Modeling Hierarchical Thinking in Large Reasoning Models

G M Shahariar, Erfan Shayegani, Ali Nazari, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh · Oct 25, 2025

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/2 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 75% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
Long Horizon MathCoding
  • Experiments across four benchmarks (AIME25, MATH-500, GSM8k, and GPQA Diamond) using three state-of-the-art open reasoning models demonstrate that Q-Value steering policy achieves significant performance gains with "surgical" efficiency,…
Open paper
Evaluating the Robustness of Proof Autoformalization in Lean 4

Zhengtao Gui, Sheng Yang, Zhouxing Shi · Jun 12, 2026

Citations: 0

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Score: 71% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
Math
  • We build a benchmark with both perturbations on miniF2F and MATH-500, and automatically measure how stable a proof autoformalization's correctness is under global perturbations and how faithfully its output reflects local perturbations.
Open paper
TAPS: Task Aware Proposal Distributions for Speculative Sampling

Mohamad Zbib, Mohamad Bazzi, Ammar Mohanna, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Bernard Ghanem · Mar 27, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/2 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 71% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
Math
  • Measured by acceptance length, task-specific training yields clear specialization: MathInstruct-trained drafts are strongest on reasoning benchmarks, while ShareGPT-trained drafts are strongest on MT-Bench.
  • Finally, confidence is a more useful routing signal than entropy: rejected tokens tend to have higher entropy, but confidence produces much clearer benchmark-level routing decisions.
Open paper

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Score: 71% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
MathCoding
  • We introduce a taxonomy of three defense categories -- output perturbation, data poisoning, and information throttling -- and evaluate nine defense configurations using a standardized pipeline with Qwen3-14B as teacher and…
Open paper

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/2 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 78% High protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Fallback
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon MathCoding
  • Using roughly 48 execution-verified HumanEval training solutions, tuning a single initial state matrix per recurrent layer, with zero inference overhead, outperforms LoRA by +10.8 pp (p < 0.001) on HumanEval.
  • Cross-domain transfer is significant on MATH-500 (+4.8 pp, p = 0.00002, 8 seeds) and GSM8K (+2.8 pp, p = 0.0003, 10 seeds); a text-to-SQL benchmark (Spider) shows no transfer, consistent with the trajectory-steering mechanism.
Open paper
Cache What Lasts: Token Retention for Memory-Bounded KV Cache in LLMs

Ngoc Bui, Shubham Sharma, Simran Lamba, Saumitra Mishra, Rex Ying · Dec 3, 2025

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/2 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 78% High protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Fallback
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon Math
  • Across mathematical reasoning (GSM8K, MATH-500, AIME24), procedural generation (LongProc), conversational long-memory benchmarks (LongMemEval), and long-context understanding (LongBenchV2 and SCBench), TRIM-KV consistently outperforms…
  • Qualitative analyses further reveal that learned retention scores align with human intuition, naturally recovering heuristics such as sink tokens, sliding windows, and gist compression without explicit design.
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