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May 2026
Rethinking RL for LLM Reasoning: It's Sparse Policy Selection, Not Capability Learning
ReasonMaxxer, a minimal RL-free method that applies contrastive loss only at entropy-gated decision points, matches or exceeds full RL performance while requiring only tens of problems and minutes of single-GPU training, a reduction in training cost of roughly three orders of magnitude.
Ömer Faruk Akgül, Rajgopal Kannan, Willie Neiswanger et al.
· arXiv.org · 3 citations
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