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arXiv cs.CLPaper9d ago

YANchor-4B: Effective Long-Horizon Reasoning in O(N) Time with O(1) Memory

The practical win here is throughput. Long-context reasoning models usually trap you between memory cost and quality loss; YANchor claims several-fold higher batched throughput than Transformers on the same hardware while matching or beating their reasoning performance on hard benchmarks like AIME. For builders working on complex multi-step reasoning or production agentic systems at scale, this is worth a prototype. The caveat: it's a 4B model and a single paper. Wait for independent reproduction and larger variants before betting your inference pipeline on it.

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arXiv cs.AIPaper9d ago

RollVerify: Bridging Efficiency and Accuracy in Long-Tail Rollout Reinforcement Learning

RL training on LLMs is becoming the production path for reasoning quality, and scaling RL to longer rollouts hits real GPU efficiency walls. RollVerify's repair-before-training approach is more aggressive than reweighting and shows promise for maintaining accuracy while improving throughput. If you're building RL infrastructure, this deserves a test run.

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arXiv cs.CLPaper11d ago

LoGRA: Scaling LLM Reinforcement Learning with Low-Rank Gradient Sketches

This solves a real pain point: RL post-training at scale is memory-bound, and LoGRA makes it practical on hardware most teams have. Enabling a 27B model on a single eight-GPU node is material. For teams already doing RL fine-tuning or considering it, this is a straightforward adoption that frees up budget for longer runs or bigger models. Code is available, implementation is reasonable.

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