Explore with Memory, Learn without It: In-Context Exploration and Self-Distillation for LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2610.17734 · cs.LG, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-10-13 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-10-13

Updated: 2026-10-13

Terminology

• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Self-Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

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