Training a concept generator improves LLM reasoning over repeated sampling.

A small model trained with reinforcement learning learns to propose diverse problem-solving concepts, boosting a frozen large model's accuracy on hard math problems.

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Ismail Labiad · Matthieu Kowalski · Marc Schoenauer · Rémi Munos · Julia Kempe

Meta FAIR · Université Paris-Saclay · Inria · NYU Courant Institute

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, hints, strategies) that maximize the downstream success of a frozen, larger answer generator.

The authors first strengthen an existing concept-guided sampling pipeline by generating all concepts in a single autoregressive trajectory (rather than iteratively), increasing diversity.

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Training a small concept generator with reinforcement learning nearly doubles a larger frozen model's reasoning pass@k on hard math problems.

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