CPU-ARC enables efficient on-CPU LLM reasoning reuse
CPU-ARC builds agentic reasoning caches from LLM traces matching frontier models on math tasks at 16-291x lower cost.
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CPU-ARC builds agentic reasoning caches from LLM traces matching frontier models on math tasks at 16-291x lower cost.
Co-training with bijective inversion tasks restores derivation and OOD accuracy.

Frontier LLM Astra identifies trained behaviors from raw weights and edits Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math performance without gradients.
Across eleven open-source models, apparent losses mostly came from mismatched prompts and formats rather than decoder masking.
The paper reports gains from 1.5B to 397B parameters and stable single-rollout training at 35B.
SCAPO adds semifactual token stability to GRPO, lifting Qwen3 AIME accuracy by up to 5.63 points.
OASIS keeps on-policy self-distillation effective at scale by supervising verified reasoning trajectories.
Least-Square Policy Distillation beats on-policy distillation baselines by 1.59 Avg@16 on math reasoning.
SAGE uses algebraic and hyperbolic guidance to reduce long-horizon LLM reasoning biases, with up to an 8-fold gain.
MERIT-Rank integrates multiple LLM reasoning trajectories for text reranking; its 4B model outperforms most 7B and 32B rerankers on BRIGHT.
Bellman Policy Optimization, a critic-free RLVR method derived from Policy Mirror Descent, improves LLM mathematical reasoning without intermediate state-value estimation.
Bellman Policy Optimization is a critic-free RLVR method that reformulates Policy Mirror Descent as a trajectory-level objective for LLM reasoning training.

KAIST and Naver AI Lab researchers show LLM reasoning steps like extraction and computation map to distinct activation patterns, strongest in middle layers.
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