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Mahdi Salmani

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#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Direct Pass@$k$ Optimization for Thought Pruning: Balancing Quality and Diversity in Test-Time Reasoning

Test-time scaling has emerged as a key inference strategy for reasoning models, where a model generates a large number of candidate solutions in the hope of finding at least one correct solution. Running all candidate solutions to completion can be computationally demanding, so recent work prunes the candidate pool aft...

Mahdi Salmani, Adel Javanmard, Devansh Gupta et al. · 0 citations

A Gold-Standard Study of What Makes a Lightweight Game-Playing Agent Strong

A strong, fixed, rule-based expert is built for Gin Rummy and used only as a yardstick, never for training, and the result is a lightweight, game-agnostic recipe that trains competitive agents without training on the expert, for any game a small model can handle, reported with robust statistics and released as a reusab...

Nima Kelidari, M. Haghi, Mahdi Salmani · 0 citations

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