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20242026
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7 papers

cs.LG2026

Prune-OPD: Efficient and Reliable On-Policy Distillation for Long-Horizon Reasoning

Zhicheng Yang, Zhijiang Guo, Yifan Song +5

On-policy distillation (OPD) leverages dense teacher rewards to enhance reasoning models. However, scaling OPD to long-horizon tasks exposes a critical flaw: as the student's gener…

cs.AI2026

Accordion-Thinking: Self-Regulated Step Summaries for Efficient and Readable LLM Reasoning

Zhicheng Yang, Zhijiang Guo, Yinya Huang +5

Scaling test-time compute via long Chain-of-Thought unlocks remarkable gains in reasoning capabilities, yet it faces practical limits due to the linear growth of KV cache and quadr…

cs.LG2025

Critique to Verify: Accurate and Honest Test-Time Scaling with RL-Trained Verifiers

Zhicheng Yang, Zhijiang Guo, Yinya Huang +4

Test-time scaling via solution sampling and aggregation has become a key paradigm for improving the reasoning performance of Large Language Models (LLMs). While reward model select…

cs.LG2025

TreeRPO: Tree Relative Policy Optimization

Zhicheng Yang, Zhijiang Guo, Yinya Huang +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable reasoning capabilities through Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) methods. However, a key limitation of existi…

cs.LG2025

OptiBench Meets ReSocratic: Measure and Improve LLMs for Optimization Modeling

Zhicheng Yang, Yiwei Wang, Yinya Huang +7

Large language models (LLMs) have exhibited their problem-solving abilities in mathematical reasoning. Solving realistic optimization (OPT) problems in application scenarios requir…

cs.AI2025

CombiBench: Benchmarking LLM Capability for Combinatorial Mathematics

Junqi Liu, Xiaohan Lin, Jonas Bayer +12

Neurosymbolic approaches integrating large language models with formal reasoning have recently achieved human-level performance on mathematics competition problems in algebra, geom…