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New CurioSFT method enhances large reasoning model exploration

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Researchers have developed CurioSFT, a novel supervised fine-tuning method for large reasoning models that aims to preserve exploration capabilities. Unlike standard SFT, which can lead to overconfidence and reduced diversity, CurioSFT uses self-exploratory distillation and adaptive temperature selection to encourage exploration without knowledge forgetting. Experiments show CurioSFT improves performance on in-distribution and out-of-distribution tasks during the SFT phase, and these preserved exploration capabilities translate to significant gains in subsequent reinforcement learning stages. AI

IMPACT This method could lead to more capable and versatile large reasoning models by improving their exploration capabilities during training.

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New CurioSFT method enhances large reasoning model exploration

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Hao Wang, Hao Gu, Hongming Piao, Kaixiong Gong, Yuxiao Ye, Xiangyu Yue, Sirui Han, Yike Guo, Dapeng Wu ·

    Entropy-Preserving Supervised Fine-Tuning via Adaptive Self-Distillation for Large Reasoning Models

    arXiv:2602.02244v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The standard post-training recipe for large reasoning models, supervised fine-tuning followed by reinforcement learning (SFT-then-RL), may limit the benefits of the RL stage: while SFT imitates expert demonstrations, it of…

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