Rewarding the Journey, Not Just the Destination: A Composite Path and Answer Self-Scoring Reward Mechanism for Test-Time Reinforcement Learning

arXiv — cs.LGFriday, November 7, 2025 at 5:00:00 AM
A new approach in reinforcement learning (RL) is being explored that focuses on rewarding the journey rather than just the end results. This method aims to address the scalability issues faced by current RL techniques, which often depend heavily on human-curated data. By utilizing unlabeled data, this innovative mechanism could enhance the performance of large language models in complex reasoning tasks like mathematics and code generation, making RL more efficient and accessible.
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