A Recipe for Long-Context Reasoning in Large Language Models via On-Policy Optimization and Distillation
cs.CL
Submitted: 2026-05-12
Updated: 2026-09-10
License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
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