RL gains in no-think mode stem from reactivating existing reasoning

Training Qwen3 models in no-think mode with GRPO primarily shifts behavior toward the model's own think mode, accounting for most accuracy improvements.

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Wenxuan Zhu · Shuming Liu · Bang An · Aznaur Aliev · Bing Li · Yibo Yang · +1 more

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology · Shanghai Jiao Tong University

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7B, 4B, and 8B models with GRPO in no-think mode on the DAPO-Math-17k dataset.

7B, 4B, 8B) with Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) in no-think mode on the DAPO-Math-17k dataset.

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From Shanghai Jiao Tong University and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology · Part of Reward Collapse in Reasoning RL, now 10 papers

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Reinforcement learning gains in no-think mode of hybrid LLMs largely come from reactivating the existing think mode reasoning.

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