Does Reinforcement Learning Really Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs Beyond the Base Model?
Yue et al., 2025, Does Reinforcement Learning Really Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs Beyond the Base Model? (arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.13837)
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7. Conclusion and Limitations
- What limits Yue et al.’s conclusions?Many of the strongest models and RL pipelines are proprietary and could not be evaluated; experiments on larger models (e.g. Magistral-Medium) were preliminary; and RL methods change quickly, so newer techniques may overcome the limits they found.
- Yue et al., 2025, Does Reinforcement Learning Really Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs Beyond the Base Model? (arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.13837), 7. Conclusion and Limitations
Source
- Yang Yue, Zhiqi Chen, Rui Lu, Andrew Zhao, Zhaokai Wang, Yang Yue, Shiji Song and Gao Huang. 2025. Does Reinforcement Learning Really Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs Beyond the Base Model?. In arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.13837. https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13837