The Invisible Leash: Why RLVR May or May Not Escape Its Origin

arXiv:2507.14843 · cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.CL · Submitted 2025-07-20 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.CL

Submitted: 2025-07-20

Updated: 2026-10-14

Terminology

• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards — 1× in this paper
• Verifiable Rewards — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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