Papers by Suren Gunturu
Reflect, Rewrite, Repeat: How Simple Arithmetic Enables Advanced Reasoning in Small Language Models (2026.findings-eacl)
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Mengdie Flora Wang, Haochen Xie, Mun Young Kim, Baishali Chaudhury, Meghana Ashok, Suren Gunturu, Sungmin Hong, Jae Oh Woo
| Challenge: | Recent advances in language model reasoning require computationally intensive reinforcement learning and massive datasets. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that combines Direct Preference Optimization and Supervised Fine-Tuning with selective guidance from larger models and iteratively refining solutions through a "reflect, rewrite, repeat" cycle. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework shows significant performance improvements across arithmetic, symbolic and cognitive reasoning benchmarks. |