Right Answer, Wrong Tokens: Tail-Aware Credit Calibration for RLVR

arXiv:2607.07976 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-07-08 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-07-08

Updated: 2026-10-15

Terminology

• Calibration — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Credit assignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• GRPO — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning (RL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 25 episodes

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