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5 papers

cs.AI2026

SUPERNOVA: Eliciting General Reasoning in LLMs with Reinforcement Learning on Natural Instructions

Ashima Suvarna, Kendrick Phan, Mehrab Beikzadeh +2

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has substantially improved reasoning in formal domains such as mathematics and code, but extending these gains beyond STEM rem…

cs.CL2025

When To Solve, When To Verify: Compute-Optimal Problem Solving and Generative Verification for LLM Reasoning

Nishad Singhi, Hritik Bansal, Arian Hosseini +4

Scaling test-time compute has emerged as a key strategy for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), particularly in tasks like mathematical problem-so…

cs.CL2025

BIG-Bench Extra Hard

Mehran Kazemi, Bahare Fatemi, Hritik Bansal +17

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in everyday applications, demanding robust general reasoning capabilities and diverse reasoning skillset. However, current LL…

cs.LG2025

Generative Verifiers: Reward Modeling as Next-Token Prediction

Lunjun Zhang, Arian Hosseini, Hritik Bansal +3

Verifiers or reward models are often used to enhance the reasoning performance of large language models (LLMs). A common approach is the Best-of-N method, where N candidate solutio…

cs.CY2025

Peeking Behind Closed Doors: Risks of LLM Evaluation by Private Data Curators

Hritik Bansal, Pratyush Maini

The rapid advancement in building large language models (LLMs) has intensified competition among big-tech companies and AI startups. In this regard, model evaluations are critical…