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Reinforcement learning recovers hidden math problem-solving skills in AI

ReSI-Math: Exploring Recoverable Capability Frontiers for Efficient Reasoning Improvement

Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become an effective approach for improving mathematical reasoning in large language models. However, a fundamental question remains: when a model fails to solve a problem, does it truly lack the underlying capability? In this work, we reveal that direct failure does not necessarily imply inability. Some reasoning failures can be recovered by exploring the model's own trajectories, exposing a recoverable capability frontier: a policy-dependent region where solutions are not reliably generated through direct decoding but can be elicited through trajectory-level search. Based on this observation, we introduce ReSI-Math, a framework that explores recoverable capability frontiers and converts recovered capabilities into data-efficient RLVR supervision. ReSI-Math uses Self-Judge-guided evolutionary search to identify recoverable failures under a fixed policy and adaptively selects frontier problems for sequential RLVR as the policy evolves. On Qwen3-VL-8B, correct-incorrect trajectory crossover produces 272 verifier-confirmed correct offspring from 621 attempts (43.8%). After three sequential one-shot RLVR stages, the MATH500 and WE-MATH average improves from 78.71 to 80.16. Under matched single-problem RLVR, random selection reaches only 53.31 versus 54.16 for frontier-guided Q1.

Tue 3 NovComputation and LanguageArtificial Intelligence
The gist
Sometimes AI models fail to solve math problems, but that doesn't mean they can't do it. The authors found that some of these failures can be fixed by exploring the AI’s own problem-solving steps, revealing hidden abilities. They created a method called ReSI-Math that hunts for these hidden solutions and uses them to train the model more efficiently. This approach improved the AI's math problem-solving accuracy in tests.
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