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Programmatic Reasoning for Countdown: Learning to Generate Executable Python-Style Verifications

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This work asks whether replacing free-form reasoning with a restricted, executable program turns this sparse reward into a graded, more interpretable training signal, using a standard SFT → RLOO pipeline as the reference point.

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