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PublishedOctober 5, 2026 at 4:00 AM
All Work And No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy: Understanding and Preventing Catastrophic Strategy Collapse in RLVR
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arXiv:2610.02835v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: During post-training of large language models (LLMs) with Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), GRPO-style algorithms can exhibit severe late-stage collapse. Prompt-based probing reveals that this is not benign strategic pruning, but a
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