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New MicroMouse framework masks harmful supervision in LLM reasoning

Researchers have developed a new framework called MicroMouse to improve the training of large language models (LLMs) by identifying and masking "harmful supervision" in long Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning processes. Inspired by maze-solving, MicroMouse uses a "Relative Potential" (REP) metric to measure how closely each reasoning step supports the correct answer, contrasting it with a plausible incorrect answer. This method helps to filter out redundant or erroneous steps during supervised fine-tuning (SFT), leading to improved accuracy and efficiency in LLM reasoning. AI

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New MicroMouse framework masks harmful supervision in LLM reasoning

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Xiaowei Zhu, Hengzhu Tang, Zhenyu Zhang, Shuohuan Wang, Yubing Ren, Yanan Cao ·

    MicroMouse: Masking Harmful Supervision in Long CoT via Relative Potential

    arXiv:2611.02710v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Even successful long CoTs may contain harmful supervision, motivating the need for methods that can automatically identify and mask such signals during SFT. Inspired by the MicroMouse maze-solving process, we view a long CoT as a se…