Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning in Small LLMs: What Works and What Doesn't

20 March 2025

Papers citing "Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning in Small LLMs: What Works and What Doesn't"

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WebCoT: Enhancing Web Agent Reasoning by Reconstructing Chain-of-Thought in Reflection, Branching, and Rollback Minda Hu Tianqing Fang Jianshu Zhang Junyu Ma Zhisong Zhang Jingyan Zhou Hongming Zhang Haitao Mi Dong Yu Irwin King LLMAG LRM 94 0 0 26 May 2025
Tool-Star: Empowering LLM-Brained Multi-Tool Reasoner via Reinforcement Learning Guanting Dong Yifei Chen Xiaoxi Li Jiajie Jin Hongjin Qian Yutao Zhu Hangyu Mao Guorui Zhou Ji-Rong Wen Ji-Rong Wen LLMAG SyDa LRM 116 0 0 22 May 2025
AAPO: Enhance the Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs with Advantage Momentum Jian Xiong Jingbo Zhou Jingyong Ye Dejing Dou LRM 86 0 0 20 May 2025
Learning When to Think: Shaping Adaptive Reasoning in R1-Style Models via Multi-Stage RL Songjun Tu Jiahao Lin Qichao Zhang Xiangyu Tian Linjing Li Xiangyuan Lan Dongbin Zhao OffRL ReLM LRM 95 3 0 16 May 2025
DRA-GRPO: Exploring Diversity-Aware Reward Adjustment for R1-Zero-Like Training of Large Language Models Xiwen Chen Wenhui Zhu Peijie Qiu Xuanzhao Dong Hao Wang Haiyu Wu Huayu Li Aristeidis Sotiras Yanjie Wang Abolfazl Razi ALM 127 0 0 14 May 2025
SmallPlan: Leverage Small Language Models for Sequential Path Planning with Simulation-Powered, LLM-Guided Distillation Quang P.M. Pham Khoi T.N. Nguyen Nhi H. Doan Cuong Pham Kentaro Inui Dezhen Song 283 0 0 01 May 2025
Phi-4-reasoning Technical Report Marah Abdin Sahaj Agarwal Ahmed Hassan Awadallah Vidhisha Balachandran Harkirat Singh Behl ... Vaishnavi Shrivastava Vibhav Vineet Yue Wu Safoora Yousefi Guoqing Zheng ReLM LRM 202 15 0 30 Apr 2025
Tina: Tiny Reasoning Models via LoRA Shangshang Wang Julian Asilis Ömer Faruk Akgül Enes Burak Bilgin Ollie Liu Willie Neiswanger OffRL LRM 122 9 0 22 Apr 2025
ToolRL: Reward is All Tool Learning Needs Cheng Qian Emre Can Acikgoz Qi He Hongru Wang Xiusi Chen Dilek Hakkani-Tur Gokhan Tur Heng Ji OffRL LRM 127 31 0 16 Apr 2025
Efficient Reasoning Models: A Survey Sicheng Feng Gongfan Fang Xinyin Ma Xinchao Wang ReLM LRM 391 14 0 15 Apr 2025
A Sober Look at Progress in Language Model Reasoning: Pitfalls and Paths to Reproducibility Andreas Hochlehnert Hardik Bhatnagar Vishaal Udandarao Samuel Albanie Ameya Prabhu Matthias Bethge ReLM ALM LRM 215 26 0 09 Apr 2025
LIMO: Less is More for Reasoning Yixin Ye Zhen Huang Yang Xiao Ethan Chern Shijie Xia Pengfei Liu LRM 166 167 0 05 Feb 2025
Demystifying Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in LLMs Edward Yeo Yuxuan Tong Morry Niu Graham Neubig Xiang Yue OffRL LRM 176 140 0 05 Feb 2025
Process Reinforcement through Implicit Rewards Ganqu Cui Lifan Yuan Ziyi Wang Hanbin Wang Wendi Li ... Yu Cheng Zhiyuan Liu Maosong Sun Bowen Zhou Ning Ding OffRL LRM 170 103 0 03 Feb 2025
DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning DeepSeek-AI Daya Guo Dejian Yang Haowei Zhang Junxiao Song ... Shiyu Wang S. Yu Shunfeng Zhou Shuting Pan S.S. Li ReLM VLM OffRL AI4TS LRM 380 2,013 0 22 Jan 2025
OlympiadBench: A Challenging Benchmark for Promoting AGI with Olympiad-Level Bilingual Multimodal Scientific Problems Chaoqun He Renjie Luo Yuzhuo Bai Shengding Hu Zhen Leng Thai ... Yuxiang Zhang Jie Liu Lei Qi Zhiyuan Liu Maosong Sun ELM AIMat 132 282 0 21 Feb 2024
DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models Zhihong Shao Peiyi Wang Qihao Zhu Runxin Xu Jun-Mei Song ... Haowei Zhang Mingchuan Zhang Yiming Li Yu-Huan Wu Daya Guo ReLM LRM 169 1,288 0 05 Feb 2024
Let's Verify Step by Step Hunter Lightman V. Kosaraju Yura Burda Harrison Edwards Bowen Baker Teddy Lee Jan Leike John Schulman Ilya Sutskever K. Cobbe ALM OffRL LRM 198 1,240 0 31 May 2023
Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models Aitor Lewkowycz Anders Andreassen David Dohan Ethan Dyer Henryk Michalewski ... Theo Gutman-Solo Yuhuai Wu Behnam Neyshabur Guy Gur-Ari Vedant Misra ReLM ELM LRM 181 859 0 29 Jun 2022
STaR: Bootstrapping Reasoning With Reasoning E. Zelikman Yuhuai Wu Jesse Mu Noah D. Goodman ReLM LRM 144 511 0 28 Mar 2022
Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models Jason W. Wei Xuezhi Wang Dale Schuurmans Maarten Bosma Brian Ichter F. Xia Ed H. Chi Quoc Le Denny Zhou LM&Ro LRM AI4CE ReLM 856 9,714 0 28 Jan 2022
Show Your Work: Scratchpads for Intermediate Computation with Language Models Maxwell Nye Anders Andreassen Guy Gur-Ari Henryk Michalewski Jacob Austin ... Aitor Lewkowycz Maarten Bosma D. Luan Charles Sutton Augustus Odena ReLM LRM 183 756 0 30 Nov 2021
Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems K. Cobbe V. Kosaraju Mohammad Bavarian Mark Chen Heewoo Jun ... Jerry Tworek Jacob Hilton Reiichiro Nakano Christopher Hesse John Schulman ReLM OffRL LRM 367 4,598 0 27 Oct 2021
Explain Yourself! Leveraging Language Models for Commonsense Reasoning Nazneen Rajani Bryan McCann Caiming Xiong R. Socher ReLM LRM 99 566 0 06 Jun 2019