PragReST: Self-Reinforcing Counterfactual Reasoning for Pragmatic Language Understanding

arXiv:2606.18624 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-06-17 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-06-17

Updated: 2026-10-16

Comments: EMNLP Camera-Ready. First two authors contributed equally. Code and models: https://github.com/jihyung803/PragReST

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Benchmark — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Reasoning Traces — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Related papers

• Exploring Solution Divergence and Its Effect on Large Language Model Problem Solving
• Ishigaki-IDS-Bench: A Benchmark for Generating Information Delivery Specification from BIM Information Requirements
• Subliminal Steering: Stronger Encoding of Hidden Signals
• MedStruct-S: A Benchmark for Key Discovery, Key-Conditioned QA and Semi-Structured Extraction from OCR Clinical Reports
• The End of Transformers? On Challenging Attention and the Rise of Sub-Quadratic Architectures
• Untangling the Mechanisms of Misleading Context in Medical Question Answering