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10 papers

cs.CL2025

SPICE: Self-Play In Corpus Environments Improves Reasoning

Bo Liu, Chuanyang Jin, Seungone Kim +7

Self-improving systems require environmental interaction for continuous adaptation. We introduce SPICE (Self-Play In Corpus Environments), a reinforcement learning framework where…

cs.CL2025

RESTRAIN: From Spurious Votes to Signals -- Self-Driven RL with Self-Penalization

Zhaoning Yu, Will Su, Leitian Tao +9

Reinforcement learning with human-annotated data has boosted chain-of-thought reasoning in large reasoning models, but these gains come at high costs in labeled data while falterin…

cs.AI2025

StepWiser: Stepwise Generative Judges for Wiser Reasoning

Wei Xiong, Wenting Zhao, Weizhe Yuan +4

As models increasingly leverage multi-step reasoning strategies to solve complex problems, supervising the logical validity of these intermediate steps has become a critical resear…

cs.CL2025

NaturalThoughts: Selecting and Distilling Reasoning Traces for General Reasoning Tasks

Yang Li, Youssef Emad, Karthik Padthe +8

Recent work has shown that distilling reasoning traces from a larger teacher model via supervised finetuning outperforms reinforcement learning with the smaller student model alone…

cs.AI2025

CoT-Self-Instruct: Building high-quality synthetic prompts for reasoning and non-reasoning tasks

Ping Yu, Jack Lanchantin, Tianlu Wang +6

We propose CoT-Self-Instruct, a synthetic data generation method that instructs LLMs to first reason and plan via Chain-of-Thought (CoT) based on given seed tasks, and then generat…

cs.CL2025

Bridging Offline and Online Reinforcement Learning for LLMs

Jack Lanchantin, Angelica Chen, Janice Lan +9

We investigate the effectiveness of reinforcement learning methods for finetuning large language models when transitioning from offline to semi-online to fully online regimes for b…