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PublishedOctober 31, 2026 at 4:00 AM
There Is No Free Lunch in RLVR: Every pass@1 Gain Has a pass@k Price
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arXiv:2610.39295v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) makes a language model solve more problems on the first try and fewer when given many tries: it raises pass@1 while the base model overtakes it at large sampling budget k. Is this a failure of RL
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