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cs.AI · 2025

Spurious Rewards: Rethinking Training Signals in RLVR

MATH-500: 70.8%

Rulin Shao, Shuyue Stella Li +12

We show that reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) can elicit strong mathematical reasoning in certain language models even with spurious rewards that have…

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cs.CL · 2017

Attention Is All You Need — Explaining the Transformer

BLEU: 28.4

Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer +6

The dominant sequence transduction models are based on complex recurrent or convolutional neural networks in an encoder-decoder configuration. The best performing models also…

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cs.CL · 2023

RWKV: Reinventing RNNs for the Transformer Era

HellaSwag: 74.8%

Bo Peng, Eric Alcaide +32

Transformers have revolutionized almost all natural language processing (NLP) tasks but suffer from memory and computational complexity that scales quadratically with sequence…

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Space Object Detection via Multi-frame Temporal Trajectory Completion

SpotGEO: 90.14%
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The Empowerment of Science of Science by LLMs

DeepSeek-V3 Cost: 0.12 USD/M tokens
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cs.LG · 2025

1-Shot RLVR: Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning with One Example

MATH500: 73.6%

Yiping Wang, Qing Yang +12

We show that reinforcement learning with verifiable reward using one training example (1-shot RLVR) is effective in incentivizing the math reasoning capabilities of large…

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cs.CL · 2025

DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via RL

AIME 2024: 79.8%

DeepSeek-AI, Daya Guo +198

General reasoning represents a long-standing and formidable challenge in artificial intelligence. Recent breakthroughs, exemplified by large language models (LLMs) and…

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cs.LG · 2020

Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (DDPM)

CIFAR10: 9.46

Jonathan Ho, Ajay Jain, Pieter Abbeel

We present high quality image synthesis results using diffusion probabilistic models, a class of latent variable models inspired by considerations from nonequilibrium…

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cs.CL · 2020

Language Models are Few-Shot Learners

LAMBADA: 86.4%

Tom B. Brown, Benjamin Mann +29

Recent work has demonstrated substantial gains on many NLP tasks and benchmarks by pre-training on a large corpus of text followed by fine-tuning on a specific task. While…

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cs.CL · 2025

Mem0: Scalable Long-Term Memory for AI Agents

LOCOMO: 67.13%

Prateek Chhikara, Dev Khant +3

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable prowess in generating contextually coherent responses, yet their fixed context windows pose fundamental challenges for…

cs.AI · 2026

SkillOpt — Executive Strategy for Self-Evolving Agent Skills

best-or-tied evaluated cells: 52/52 cells

Yifan Yang, Ziyang Gong +13

Agent skills today are hand-crafted, generated one-shot, or evolved through loosely controlled self-revision, none of which behaves like a deep-learning optimizer for the skill,…

cs.LG · 2026

RGSD: Rubric-Guided Self-Distillation

RubricHub-medical + HealthBench: +6.1pp

MohammadHossein Rezaei, Anas Mahmoud +7

Rubrics have emerged as an alternative to RLVR in open-ended domains where a single ground-truth final answer is not available. Existing rubric-based training methods rely on an…

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Model Domain Mapping Function & Composition

cs.CL · 2024

Tülu 3: Pushing Frontiers in Open Language Model Post-Training

GSM8K: 87.6%

Nathan Lambert, Jacob Morrison +21

Language model post-training is applied to refine behaviors and unlock new skills across a wide range of recent language models, but open recipes for applying these techniques…

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cs.AI · 2025

Kimi k1.5: Scaling Reinforcement Learning with LLMs

AIME 2024: 77.5%

Kimi Team, Angang Du +94

Language model pretraining with next token prediction has proved effective for scaling compute but is limited to the amount of available training data. Scaling reinforcement…

cs.LG · 2025

The Entropy Mechanism of RL for Reasoning LLMs

AIME24: 36.8%

Ganqu Cui, Yuchen Zhang +15

This paper aims to overcome a major obstacle in scaling RL for reasoning with LLMs, namely the collapse of policy entropy. Such phenomenon is consistently observed across vast RL…

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cs.LG · 2025

Absolute Zero: Reinforced Self-play Reasoning with Zero Data

AVG: 50.4%

Andrew Zhao, Yiran Wu +9

Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has shown promise in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models by learning directly from outcome-based…

cs.AI · 2025

Does RL Really Expand LLM Reasoning?

Omni-MATH-Train: 42.5%

Yang Yue, Zhiqi Chen +6

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has recently demonstrated notable success in enhancing the reasoning performance of large language models (LLMs),…

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cs.LG · 2025

Understanding R1-Zero-Like Training: A Critical Perspective

AIME 2024: 43.3%

Zichen Liu, Changyu Chen +6

DeepSeek-R1-Zero has shown that reinforcement learning (RL) at scale can directly enhance the reasoning capabilities of LLMs without supervised fine-tuning. In this work, we…

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cs.LG · 2025

DAPO: Demystifying Large-Scale LLM Reinforcement Learning

AIME 2024: 50.0%

Qiying Yu, Zheng Zhang +33

Inference scaling empowers LLMs with unprecedented reasoning ability, with reinforcement learning as the core technique to elicit complex reasoning. However, key technical…

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cs.CL · 2025

s1: Simple Test-Time Scaling

AIME24: 56.7%

Niklas Muennighoff, Zitong Yang +8

Test-time scaling is a promising new approach to language modeling that uses extra test-time compute to improve performance. Recently, OpenAI's o1 model showed this capability…

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cs.CL · 2024

DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning

MATH: 51.7%

Zhihong Shao, Peiyi Wang +9

Mathematical reasoning poses a significant challenge for language models due to its complex and structured nature. In this paper, we introduce DeepSeekMath 7B, which continues…

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cs.LG · 2019

Dota 2 with Large Scale Deep Reinforcement Learning — OpenAI Five

Win rate vs Public: 99.4%

OpenAI, : +25

On April 13th, 2019, OpenAI Five became the first AI system to defeat the world champions at an esports game. The game of Dota 2 presents novel challenges for AI systems such as…

cs.LG · 2021

Decision Transformer: Reinforcement Learning via Sequence Modeling

DQN-Replay 1%: 267.5 ± 97.5

Lili Chen, Kevin Lu +7

We introduce a framework that abstracts Reinforcement Learning (RL) as a sequence modeling problem. This allows us to draw upon the simplicity and scalability of the Transformer…

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