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arXiv · August 18, 2026
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This is an unpublished preprint describing a graph-based algorithm for online difficulty estimation in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards. The work proposes a method to improve exploration efficiency in LLM reasoning tasks and reports experimental validation across multiple settings, but has not undergone peer review and does not address clinical or health outcomes.
Preprint. Intervention: Graph-structured online difficulty estimator incorporating semantic and reasoning sample similarities, latent difficulty states with Potts prior, state-level Beta-Binomial model, and online mean-field variational algorithm for continuous u….
Framework integrates into sample-selection and rollout-allocation schedulers to enable difficulty-adaptive exploration without dedicated probing Uses latent difficulty states with Potts prior to encourage neighboring samples to share the same state Employs state-level Beta-Binomial model to aggregate rollout outcomes; continuous online mean-field variational update as feedback arrives
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This is an unpublished methodological preprint proposing a machine learning algorithm for adaptive scheduling in reinforcement learning; it reports experimental validation but lacks peer review and clinician-relevant hard outcomes.
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Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) improves the reasoning capabilities of large language models but relies on costly rollout exploration. Assigning the same exploration budget to samples with different difficulty levels is inefficient: easy samples may receive redundant rollouts, whereas difficult but learnable samples may receive too little exploration. Existing adaptive schedulers address this mismatch through curriculum-based sample selection or non-uniform rollout allocation based on estimated sample difficulty. However, obtaining reliable online difficulty estimates remains challenging: dedicated probing adds substantial generation overhead, whereas history-based estimators face a cold start with no initial observations and stale feedback, and typically ignore relations among samples. To address these limitations, we propose a plug-and-play graph-based online difficulty estimator that shares rollout feedback across related samples and continuously updates their difficulty estimates, mitigating cold start and staleness without dedicated probing. Specifically, we first construct a difficulty-aware sample graph based on semantic and reasoning similarities. Based on this graph, we introduce latent difficulty states and use a Potts prior to encourage neighboring samples to share the same state. We then employ a state-level Beta-Binomial model to aggregate the rollout outcomes associated with each state. Finally, we use an online mean-field variational algorithm to continuously update the latent-state assignments and state-level difficulty as new feedback arrives. Our framework can be integrated into sample-selection and rollout-allocation schedulers, enabling difficulty-adaptive exploration without dedicated probing. Experiments across multiple base models, RL schedulers, and benchmarks demonstrate that our framework achieves better performance.
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