[Paper Suggestion]: RLP: Reinforcement as a Pretraining Objective

[NicklasOsterbacka]

Paper Title

RLP: Reinforcement as a Pretraining Objective

Paper Link

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01265

Brief Summary

The paper introduces reinforcement learning as a pre-training objective. The core is that they treat chain-of-thought as an exploratory action, with the model being rewarded based on the information gain provided for predicting future tokens. Their formulation yields a verifier-free dense reward signal, and their benchmark results are improved compared to baselines.

Relevance to Group

This paper outlines a way to integrate CoT-based reasoning much earlier in the training process than traditional fine-tuning through SFT or RL.

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