Papers by Hongru Hou
Good Reasoning Makes Good Demonstrations: Implicit Reasoning Quality Supervision via In-Context Reinforcement Learning (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) improves reasoning in large language models but treats all correct solutions equally, potentially reinforcing flawed traces that arrive at correct answers by chance. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that reweights rewards by a factor approximately proportional to Evidence Gain and assigns higher weights to high-quality traces without requiring costly computation. |
| Outcome: | Experiments on mathematical reasoning benchmarks show that Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) improves reasoning in large language models but treats all correct solutions equally. |