Smart Picks in the Dark: Towards Efficient RLVR for Reasoning via Tracing Metacognitive Pivots

arXiv:2606.04503 · cs.LG, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-06-03 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-06-03

Updated: 2026-10-18

Terminology

• RLVR — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Quantifying Uncertainty — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifiable Rewards — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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