most citedPosition: Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces!

5 citations · 5 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.AI2025

Local Coherence or Global Validity? Investigating RLVR Traces in Math Domains

Soumya Rani Samineni, Durgesh Kalwar, Vardaan Gangal +2

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR)-based post-training of Large Language Models (LLMs) has been shown to improve accuracy on reasoning tasks and continues to att…

cs.LG2025

RL in Name Only? Analyzing the Structural Assumptions in RL post-training for LLMs

Soumya Rani Samineni, Durgesh Kalwar, Karthik Valmeekam +2

Reinforcement learning based post-training of large language models (LLMs) has recently gained attention, particularly following the release of DeepSeek R1, which applied GRPO for…

cs.AI2025★ 5 cited

Position: Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces!

Subbarao Kambhampati, Karthik Valmeekam, Siddhant Bhambri +6

Intermediate token generation (ITG), where a model produces output before the solution, has become a standard method to improve the performance of language models on reasoning task…

cs.RO2021

Dynamic Mirror Descent based Model Predictive Control for Accelerating Robot Learning

Utkarsh A. Mishra, Soumya R. Samineni, Prakhar Goel +6

Recent works in Reinforcement Learning (RL) combine model-free (Mf)-RL algorithms with model-based (Mb)-RL approaches to get the best from both: asymptotic performance of Mf-RL and…

cs.LG2021

Policy Search using Dynamic Mirror Descent MPC for Model Free Off Policy RL

Soumya Rani Samineni

Recent works in Reinforcement Learning (RL) combine model-free (Mf)-RL algorithms with model-based (Mb)-RL approaches to get the best from both: asymptotic performance of Mf-RL and…