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Reinforcement Learning Improves Traversal of Parametric Knowledge in LLMs
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arXiv:2511.05933v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) is often credited with improving language model reasoning at the expense of knowledge. We challenge this narrative by showing that reasoning models consistently outperform their instruction-tuned versions on pure knowled
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