Paper Citation Record · LEDGER

Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal

As of 8 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 0 of 0 outbound references and 26 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2502.12118.

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OpenVLThinker: Complex Vision-Language Reasoning via Iterative SFT-RL Cycles cites this paper.

OpenVLThinker: Complex Vision-Language Reasoning via Iterative SFT-RL Cycles Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal

Reference 59

Resolution: verified exact; arxiv_id, observed 2026-05-19T06:59:03.238636Z

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Advances and Challenges in Foundation Agents: From Brain-Inspired Intelligence to Evolutionary, Collaborative, and Safe Systems cites this paper.

Advances and Challenges in Foundation Agents: From Brain-Inspired Intelligence to Evolutionary, Collaborative, and Safe Systems Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal

Reference 211

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Observation d61edaaa-bdcf-42ae-ab77-16a2fcdc166a · inbound

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Entropy Minimization in LLM Reasoning cites this paper.

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Entropy Minimization in LLM Reasoning Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal

Reference 69

Resolution: verified exact; arxiv_id, observed 2026-05-18T15:58:33.485438Z

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Observation 38e18a3b-642c-459f-8caa-ccc9876c8e26 · inbound

Continuous Self-Improvement of Large Language Models by Test-time Training with Verifier-Driven Sample Selection cites this paper.

Continuous Self-Improvement of Large Language Models by Test-time Training with Verifier-Driven Sample Selection Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal

Reference 2017

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Observation 00262278-648d-401e-83b7-43a01aac0f27 · inbound

Faster and Better LLMs via Latency-Aware Test-Time Scaling cites this paper.

Faster and Better LLMs via Latency-Aware Test-Time Scaling Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal

Reference 26

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Observation 0ca12fc2-9a90-4756-9d71-03f3a2ca862b · inbound

Scaling over Scaling: Exploring Test-Time Scaling Plateau in Large Reasoning Models cites this paper.

Scaling over Scaling: Exploring Test-Time Scaling Plateau in Large Reasoning Models Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal

Reference 21

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Observation 4fd36060-3c10-44c7-b923-e4aacd158829 · inbound

LoVeC: Reinforcement Learning for Better Verbalized Confidence in Long-Form Generations cites this paper.

LoVeC: Reinforcement Learning for Better Verbalized Confidence in Long-Form Generations Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal

Reference 43

Resolution: verified exact; arxiv_id, observed 2026-05-19T12:47:17.990957Z

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Observation 55ac6afc-efc0-4230-bf21-ea854c17561c · inbound

Generalizable LLM Learning of Graph Synthetic Data with Post-training Alignment cites this paper.

Generalizable LLM Learning of Graph Synthetic Data with Post-training Alignment Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal

Reference 66

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Observation c5cb6b72-cbe8-4b35-8f4d-b19e3acc3ea8 · inbound

Revisiting Test-Time Scaling: A Survey and a Diversity-Aware Method for Efficient Reasoning cites this paper.

Revisiting Test-Time Scaling: A Survey and a Diversity-Aware Method for Efficient Reasoning Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal

Reference 74

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Observation e0e4fd3c-792e-4adf-918e-215295894e38 · inbound

Sample Complexity and Representation Ability of Test-time Scaling Paradigms cites this paper.

Sample Complexity and Representation Ability of Test-time Scaling Paradigms Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal

Reference 74

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Observation f20f4c7f-9d7b-48aa-9f8d-bad1bab99af3 · inbound

Thinking vs. Doing: Agents that Reason by Scaling Test-Time Interaction cites this paper.

Thinking vs. Doing: Agents that Reason by Scaling Test-Time Interaction Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal

Reference 73

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Observation d155d0d9-b405-46c5-9231-8f57d771e0eb · inbound

e3: Learning to Explore Enables Extrapolation of Test-Time Compute for LLMs cites this paper.

e3: Learning to Explore Enables Extrapolation of Test-Time Compute for LLMs Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal

Reference 38

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Observation c3185151-7874-4f06-bdd5-076ba5a0224f · inbound

Risk-Guided Diffusion: Toward Deploying Robot Foundation Models in Space, Where Failure Is Not An Option cites this paper.

Risk-Guided Diffusion: Toward Deploying Robot Foundation Models in Space, Where Failure Is Not An Option Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal

Reference 9

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Observation db2f22e1-3716-4ea5-b409-8dafbf119d55 · inbound

OpenCodeReasoning-II: A Simple Test Time Scaling Approach via Self-Critique cites this paper.

OpenCodeReasoning-II: A Simple Test Time Scaling Approach via Self-Critique Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal

Reference 35

Resolution: unresolved; no resolver link, observed 2026-08-06T18:11:18.663876Z

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Observation cd3a6297-62fc-40ba-8849-979f98675793 · inbound

Learn from What We HAVE: History-Aware VErifier that Reasons about Past Interactions Online cites this paper.

Learn from What We HAVE: History-Aware VErifier that Reasons about Past Interactions Online Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal

Reference 1

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Observation c3121a39-00b2-46a5-a1ab-654f921f914f · inbound

Why Does Reasoning Length Converge? Unveiling the Underfitting-Overfitting Trade-off in Chain-of-Thought cites this paper.

Why Does Reasoning Length Converge? Unveiling the Underfitting-Overfitting Trade-off in Chain-of-Thought Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal

Reference 29

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Observation 7a0040a0-e9bb-426a-964a-23a9867f6fc7 · inbound

RaC: Robot Learning for Long-Horizon Tasks by Scaling Recovery and Correction cites this paper.

RaC: Robot Learning for Long-Horizon Tasks by Scaling Recovery and Correction Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal

Reference 38

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Observation 3cd3c06e-92ef-46b1-b172-6c3976ea4406 · inbound

Asking LLMs to Verify First is Almost Free Lunch cites this paper.

Asking LLMs to Verify First is Almost Free Lunch Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal

Reference 20

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Observation 93315f33-d916-44be-ae74-e752e30de6b1 · inbound

What Does Flow Matching Bring To TD Learning? cites this paper.

What Does Flow Matching Bring To TD Learning? Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal

Reference 54

Resolution: verified exact; arxiv_id, observed 2026-05-15T16:36:17.910581Z

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Observation 7eaa64f9-baa4-4f34-8c4d-6dd271c40469 · inbound

Measure Twice, Click Once: Co-evolving Proposer and Visual Critic via Reinforcement Learning for GUI Grounding cites this paper.

Measure Twice, Click Once: Co-evolving Proposer and Visual Critic via Reinforcement Learning for GUI Grounding Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal

Reference 28

Resolution: metadata mismatch; arxiv_id, observed 2026-05-11T14:16:05.777615Z

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Observation deee3ea0-b457-41b0-a510-eddef6dc0fa7 · inbound

CAPS: Cascaded Adaptive Pairwise Selection for Efficient Parallel Reasoning cites this paper.

CAPS: Cascaded Adaptive Pairwise Selection for Efficient Parallel Reasoning Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal

Reference 33

Resolution: verified exact; arxiv_id, observed 2026-05-19T15:42:38.364806Z

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Observation 0c548352-46e2-484a-bb5d-e726d873864a · inbound

A Predictive Law for On-Policy Self-Distillation From World Feedback cites this paper.

A Predictive Law for On-Policy Self-Distillation From World Feedback Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal

Reference 26

Resolution: verified exact; arxiv_id, observed 2026-06-29T09:13:16.210460Z

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Observation 959bee1d-0987-4be4-adfc-c3212bae2d98 · inbound

On the Generalization Gap in Self-Evolving Language Model Reasoning cites this paper.

On the Generalization Gap in Self-Evolving Language Model Reasoning Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal

Reference 29

Resolution: verified exact; arxiv_id, observed 2026-06-28T17:22:24.924302Z

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Observation 49abea7f-0bf0-4190-a9ec-c0beb200826f · inbound

From Reasoning Traces to Reusable Modules: Understanding Compositional Generalization in Language Model Reasoning cites this paper.

From Reasoning Traces to Reusable Modules: Understanding Compositional Generalization in Language Model Reasoning Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal

Reference 80

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Observation ec8e1e04-02ca-48cf-8566-aa37402a0fb1 · inbound

Test-Time Scaling for Small VLMs on Multilingual Visual MCQ cites this paper.

Test-Time Scaling for Small VLMs on Multilingual Visual MCQ Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal

Reference 21

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Observation 86aa1bbb-a3b7-404f-b30e-bee62b08caac · inbound

Oracle Gap and Signal Fidelity: A Fixed-Pool Diagnostic for Test-Time Collaboration cites this paper.

Oracle Gap and Signal Fidelity: A Fixed-Pool Diagnostic for Test-Time Collaboration Scaling Test-Time Compute Without Verification or RL is Suboptimal

Reference 18

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