Probing the Origins of Reasoning Performance: Representational Quality for Mathematical Problem-Solving in RL vs. SFT Fine-Tuned Models
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arXiv:2607.26119v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large reasoning models trained via reinforcement learning (RL) have been increasingly shown to outperform their supervised fine-tuned (SFT) counterparts on mathematical reasoning tasks; Yet the mechanistic basis for this advantage remains unclear. We therefore ask, what internal representational differences enable RL models' superior performance? Our work presents two converging lines of evidence: First, linear probes trained on layer-wise hidden…
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- arXiv:2607.26119v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large reasoning models trained via reinforcement learning (RL) have been increasingly shown to outperform their supervised fine-tuned (SFT) counterparts on mathematical reasoning tasks; Yet the mechanistic basis for this advantage remains unclear.
- We therefore ask, what internal representational differences enable RL models' superior performance?
- Our work presents two converging lines of evidence: First, linear probes trained on layer-wise hidden….
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