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From Reasoning Chains to Verifiable Subproblems: Curriculum Reinforcement Learning Enables Credit Assignment for LLM Reasoning

Xitai Jiang, Zihan Tang, Wenze Lin, Yang Yue, Shenzhi Wang, Gao Huang · May 21, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Math).

Score: 58% High protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Rubric Rating Automatic Metrics Math
  • Across seven mathematical reasoning benchmarks, SCRL outperforms strong curriculum-learning baselines, improving average accuracy over GRPO by +4.1 points on Qwen3-4B-Base and +1.9 points on Qwen3-14B-Base.
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Efficient Agentic Reasoning Through Self-Regulated Simulative Planning

Mingkai Deng, Jinyu Hou, Lara Sá Neves, Varad Pimpalkhute, Taylor W. Killian, Zhengzhong Liu · May 21, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Math).

Score: 58% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Fallback
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon Math
  • To test this, we develop SR^2AM (Self-Regulated Simulative Reasoning Agentic LLM), realizing both as distinct stages within an LLM's chain-of-thought, with the LLM as world model.
  • Across math, science, tabular analysis, and web information seeking, v0.1-8B and v1.0-30B achieve Pass@1 competitive with 120-355B and 685B-1T parameter systems respectively, while v1.0-30B uses 25.8-95.3% fewer reasoning tokens than…
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Correct Is Not Enough: Training Reasoning Planners with Executor-Grounded Rewards

Tianyang Han, Hengyu Shi, Junjie Hu, Xu Yang, Zhiling Wang, Junhao Su · May 5, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Math).

Score: 53% High protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
Rubric Rating Automatic Metrics Long Horizon MathLaw
  • Extensive experiments on code and math benchmarks show that this executor-grounded reasoning reward improves the two-stage planner-executor system over execution-only training, suggesting that reasoning supervision should evaluate not only…
Open paper
QED-Nano: Teaching a Tiny Model to Prove Hard Theorems

LM-Provers, Yuxiao Qu, Amrith Setlur, Jasper Dekoninck, Edward Beeching, Jia Li · Apr 6, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Math).

Score: 53% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
Rubric Rating Automatic Metrics MathCoding
  • To support further research on open mathematical reasoning, we release the full QED-Nano pipeline, including the QED-Nano and QED-Nano-SFT models, the FineProofs-SFT and FineProofs-RL datasets, and the training and evaluation code.
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RuleForge: Automated Generation and Validation for Web Vulnerability Detection at Scale

Ayush Garg, Sophia Hager, Jacob Montiel, Aditya Tiwari, Michael Gentile, Zach Reavis · Apr 2, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Math).

Score: 53% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
Expert Verification Llm As JudgeAutomatic Metrics Math
  • This paper focuses on RuleForge's architecture and operational deployment for CVE-related threat detection, with particular emphasis on our novel LLM-as-a-judge (Large Language Model as judge) confidence validation system and systematic…
  • We also present extensions enabling rule generation from unstructured data sources and demonstrate a proof-of-concept agentic workflow for multi-event-type detection.
Open paper
Inducing Overthink: Hierarchical Genetic Algorithm-based DoS Attack on Black-Box Large Language Reasoning Models

Shuqiang Wang, Wei Cao, Jiaqi Weng, Jialing Tao, Licheng Pan, Hui Xue · May 13, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Math).

Score: 53% High protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Fallback
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon Math
  • Across four state-of-the-art reasoning models, the proposed method substantially amplifies output length, achieving up to a 26.1x increase on the MATH benchmark and consistently outperforming benign and manually crafted missing-premise…
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Your Language Model is Its Own Critic: Reinforcement Learning with Value Estimation from Actor's Internal States

Yunho Choi, Jongwon Lim, Woojin Ahn, Minjae Oh, Jeonghoon Shim, Yohan Jo · May 8, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Math).

Score: 53% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Fallback
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon Math
  • On Qwen3-4B and DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B across math reasoning benchmarks, POISE matches DAPO while requiring less compute.
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ResRL: Boosting LLM Reasoning via Negative Sample Projection Residual Reinforcement Learning

Zihan Lin, Xiaohan Wang, Jie Cao, Jiajun Chai, Li Wang, Xiaodong Lu · May 1, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Math).

Score: 53% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Fallback
Automatic Metrics Tool Use MathCoding
  • ResRL then projects negative-token hidden representations onto an SVD-based low-rank positive subspace and uses projection residuals to modulate negative gradients, improving reasoning while preserving diversity and outperforming strong…
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Match reason: Matches selected tags (Math).

Score: 53% High protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Fallback
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon Math
  • We introduce TrACE (Trajectorical Adaptive Compute via agrEement), a training-free controller that allocates LLM calls adaptively across agent timesteps by measuring inter-rollout action agreement.
  • We evaluate TrACE against greedy decoding and fixed-budget self-consistency (SC-4, SC-8) on two benchmarks spanning single-step reasoning (GSM8K, n=50) and multi-step household navigation (MiniHouse, n=30), using a Qwen 2.5 3B Instruct…
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Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Math).

Score: 53% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Fallback
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon Math
  • Inspired by human cognitive processes, we introduce a backward verification mechanism at each hierarchical layer.
  • Experiments on four mathematical benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.
Open paper
SHAPE: Stage-aware Hierarchical Advantage via Potential Estimation for LLM Reasoning

Zhengyang Ai, Zikang Shan, Xiaodong Ai, Jingxian Tang, Hangkai Hu, Pinyan Lu · Apr 8, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Math).

Score: 53% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Fallback
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon Math
  • Extensive experiments in math reasoning across three base models and five benchmarks demonstrate that SHAPE achieves an average accuracy gain of 3% with 30% reduced token consumption.
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Sparse Tokens Suffice: Jailbreaking Audio Language Models via Token-Aware Gradient Optimization

Zheng Fang, Xiaosen Wang, Shenyi Zhang, Shaokang Wang, Zhijin Ge · May 6, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Math).

Score: 50% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Fallback
Red Team Math
  • These results demonstrate that dense waveform updates are largely redundant, and we advocate that future audio jailbreak and safety alignment research should further leverage this heterogeneous token-level gradient structure.
Open paper
Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Math).

Score: 50% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Fallback
Human EvalAutomatic Metrics Math
  • Large language models (LLMs) has been widely adopted as a scalable surrogate for human evaluation, yet such judges remain imperfect and susceptible to surface-level biases.
  • With the rise of reasoning-capable models, exposing a generator's reasoning content to the judge provides richer information and is a natural candidate for improving judgment accuracy.
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From High-Dimensional Spaces to Verifiable ODD Coverage for Safety-Critical AI-based Systems

Thomas Stefani, Johann Maximilian Christensen, Elena Hoemann, Frank Köster, Sven Hallerbach · Apr 2, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Math).

Score: 50% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Fallback
Simulation Env Long Horizon Math
  • While Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers transformative potential for operational performance, its deployment in safety-critical domains such as aviation requires strict adherence to rigorous certification standards.
  • Ultimately, this method enables the validation of ODD coverage in higher dimensions, advancing a Safety-by-Design approach while complying with EASA's standards.
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SSG: Logit-Balanced Vocabulary Partitioning for LLM Watermarking

Chenxi Gu, Xiaoning Du, John Grundy · Apr 24, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Math).

Score: 46% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Fallback
Pairwise Preference MathCoding
  • A crucial step in the KGW method is random vocabulary partitioning, which enables adjustments to token selection based on specific preferences.
Open paper
Removing Sandbagging in LLMs by Training with Weak Supervision

Emil Ryd, Henning Bartsch, Julian Stastny, Joe Benton, Vivek Hebbar · Apr 23, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Math).

Score: 46% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Fallback
Demonstrations MathCoding
  • As AI systems begin to automate complex tasks, supervision increasingly relies on weaker models or limited human oversight that cannot fully verify output quality.
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Bootstrapping Post-training Signals for Open-ended Tasks via Rubric-based Self-play on Pre-training Text

Chengyu Huang, Sheng-Yen Chou, Zhengxin Zhang, Claire Cardie · Apr 21, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Math).

Score: 46% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Fallback
Rubric Rating MathCoding
  • A key benefit of self-play for post-training LLMs is its minimal supervision costs: self-play avoids the need for high-quality input-output pairs traditionally constructed by humans or expensive proprietary models.
  • We propose POP, a self-play framework that uses the same LLM to synthesize evaluation rubrics along with each input-output pair.
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Exclusive Unlearning

Mutsumi Sasaki, Kouta Nakayama, Yusuke Miyao, Yohei Oseki, Masaru Isonuma · Apr 7, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Matches selected tags (Math).

Score: 46% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Fallback
Red Team Math
  • We demonstrate that through Exclusive Unlearning, it is possible to obtain a model that ensures safety against a wide range of inputs, including jailbreaks, while maintaining the ability to respond to diverse instructions related to…
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