Paper Citation Record · LEDGER

Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions

As of 8 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 24 of 24 outbound references and 2 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2508.21188.

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Observation d91e600d-092a-47f8-aa07-3c2213d50cbb · outbound

This paper cites DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning.

Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

Reference 4

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Observation 4a52c702-ba68-4ee9-9539-dc89e4ac3154 · outbound

This paper cites LiveCodeBench: Holistic and Contamination Free Evaluation of Large Language Models for Code.

Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions LiveCodeBench: Holistic and Contamination Free Evaluation of Large Language Models for Code

Reference 6

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Observation 920baffd-8102-4ed6-a9a0-9c5665ef8fb3 · outbound

This paper cites BIG-Bench Extra Hard.

Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions BIG-Bench Extra Hard

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Observation e75d04a6-b8f8-4f1a-b647-0042b164180d · outbound

This paper cites SynLogic: Synthesizing Verifiable Reasoning Data at Scale for Learning Logical Reasoning and Beyond.

Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions SynLogic: Synthesizing Verifiable Reasoning Data at Scale for Learning Logical Reasoning and Beyond

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Observation 44a3cdc7-cb6d-4f98-8329-29478b16b20e · outbound

This paper cites The Climb Carves Wisdom Deeper Than the Summit: On the Noisy Rewards in Learning to Reason.

Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions The Climb Carves Wisdom Deeper Than the Summit: On the Noisy Rewards in Learning to Reason

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Observation ba9d74c3-dfff-40d4-a8b7-f1245ac45eb0 · outbound

This paper cites KOR-Bench: Benchmarking Language Models on Knowledge-Orthogonal Reasoning Tasks.

Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions KOR-Bench: Benchmarking Language Models on Knowledge-Orthogonal Reasoning Tasks

Reference 10

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Observation b6f85f85-7ff3-4df7-ac01-01f864a1883f · outbound

This paper cites The Llama 3 Herd of Models.

Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions The Llama 3 Herd of Models

Reference 11

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Observation 360502bb-0bf8-443c-8b4b-c54c739bc552 · outbound

This paper cites Qwen2.5 Technical Report.

Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions Qwen2.5 Technical Report

Reference 12

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Observation 44f72023-4147-499e-a3ee-f9bc4bef15eb · outbound

This paper cites Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model.

Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model

Reference 13

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Observation cde19674-1179-4713-ad61-86d99b27d526 · outbound

This paper cites Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm.

Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm

Reference 14

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Observation 8ee51b7f-ac07-47e9-89b6-74018e1af83f · outbound

This paper cites Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning in Large Language Models with One Training Example.

Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning in Large Language Models with One Training Example

Reference 17

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Observation dd79800b-fecd-405a-a6fd-aafd6af5ed3f · outbound

This paper cites Reasoning or memorization? unreliable results of reinforcement learning due to data contamination.

Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions Reasoning or memorization? unreliable results of reinforcement learning due to data contamination

Reference 18

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Observation 6928d6d9-b19f-44b0-8891-3e26d347ef82 · outbound

This paper cites Qwen2.5-Math Technical Report: Toward Mathematical Expert Model via Self-Improvement.

Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions Qwen2.5-Math Technical Report: Toward Mathematical Expert Model via Self-Improvement

Reference 19

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Observation 77b662ac-1ccc-4f5c-8e8b-06c47cd8619c · outbound

This paper cites Qwen3 Technical Report.

Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions Qwen3 Technical Report

Reference 20

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Observation f521cb35-0606-48b9-995f-748399cf3d8b · outbound

This paper cites Daniel M Ziegler, Nisan Stiennon, Jeffrey Wu, Tom B Brown, Alec Radford, Dario Amodei, Paul Christiano, and Geoffrey Irving.

Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions Daniel M Ziegler, Nisan Stiennon, Jeffrey Wu, Tom B Brown, Alec Radford, Dario Amodei, Paul Christiano, and Geoffrey Irving

Reference 21

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Observation 65520dd4-4391-4260-b429-56cd12c0c684 · outbound

This paper cites The format reward is different from that of Shao et al.

Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions The format reward is different from that of Shao et al

Reference 23

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Observation 3b774ea2-a172-4f3a-91cc-561c70806613 · outbound

This paper cites an unresolved cited work.

Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions Unresolved cited work

Reference 24

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Observation f0ac64dc-1cd8-42bb-a316-3a8140bbfc4c · outbound

This paper cites Challenging BIG-Bench Tasks and Whether Chain-of-Thought Can Solve Them.

Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions Challenging BIG-Bench Tasks and Whether Chain-of-Thought Can Solve Them

Reference 1998

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Observation 505fbb72-68cb-49d4-bd23-1aa857ad6973 · outbound

This paper cites TTRL: Test-Time Reinforcement Learning.

Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions TTRL: Test-Time Reinforcement Learning

Reference 2019

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Observation b25332ec-6417-42d4-a68f-75cfce780dbf · outbound

This paper cites Measuring Mathematical Problem Solving With the MATH Dataset.

Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions Measuring Mathematical Problem Solving With the MATH Dataset

Reference 2021

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Observation 7925ea58-f691-467b-9db3-a47591b3db85 · outbound

This paper cites Kimi k1.5: Scaling Reinforcement Learning with LLMs.

Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions Kimi k1.5: Scaling Reinforcement Learning with LLMs

Reference 2022

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Observation 92c72353-49a2-4e9c-9e84-ad284e08276f · outbound

This paper cites Jiangjie Chen, Qianyu He, Siyu Yuan, Aili Chen, Zhicheng Cai, Weinan Dai, Hongli Yu, Qiying Yu, Xuefeng Li, Jiaze Chen, Hao Zhou, and Mingxuan Wang.

Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions Jiangjie Chen, Qianyu He, Siyu Yuan, Aili Chen, Zhicheng Cai, Weinan Dai, Hongli Yu, Qiying Yu, Xuefeng Li, Jiaze Chen, Hao Zhou, and Mingxuan Wang

Reference 2023

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Observation c47a4f8d-25df-4038-a11b-b53762be1fb8 · outbound

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Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions Unresolved cited work

Reference 2024

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Observation a5b5ccbf-b8d3-43df-b2f1-c22b04f2d239 · outbound

This paper cites Enigmata: Scaling Logical Reasoning in Large Language Models with Synthetic Verifiable Puzzles.

Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions Enigmata: Scaling Logical Reasoning in Large Language Models with Synthetic Verifiable Puzzles

Reference 2025

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Pith citing papers

Observation efa8a444-62f3-40aa-86a1-443620487913 · inbound

Spurious Rewards Paradox: Mechanistically Understanding How RLVR Activates Memorization Shortcuts in LLMs cites this paper.

Spurious Rewards Paradox: Mechanistically Understanding How RLVR Activates Memorization Shortcuts in LLMs Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions

Reference 16

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Observation 6bf40004-0e52-4f1a-958a-38305042e275 · inbound

Learning to Build the Environment: Self-Evolving Reasoning RL via Verifiable Environment Synthesis cites this paper.

Learning to Build the Environment: Self-Evolving Reasoning RL via Verifiable Environment Synthesis Mirage or Method? How Model-Task Alignment Induces Divergent RL Conclusions

Reference 41

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