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RLP: Reinforcement as a Pretraining Objective research paper by NVIDIA, 2025

NVIDIA · Training and scaling · Sep 26, 2025 · 27 citations · 47 upvotes · unverified

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RLP, an information-driven reinforcement pretraining objective, enhances reasoning models by integrating exploration into pretraining, leading to significant performance improvements across various benchmarks.

By Ali Hatamizadeh, Syeda Nahida Akter, Shrimai Prabhumoye and 5 more · arXiv 2510.01265 · PDF · Code

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arXiv.org
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27, 3 influential · Semantic Scholar
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47 · Hugging Face
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CitationsOct 12, 2026Citations rose from 26 to 27.
CitationsOct 5, 2026Influential citations rose from 2 to 3.
CitationsOct 5, 2026Citations rose from 24 to 26.
CitationsSep 28, 2026Citations rose from 23 to 24.
CitationsSep 25, 2026A first count of 2 influential citations.
CitationsSep 25, 2026A first count of 23 citations.
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