CounterRoute: Self-Routed Reasoning via Hierarchical Counterfactual Credit Assignment

arXiv:2609.29109 · cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-24 · Read on arXiv

cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-24

Updated: 2026-09-26

Comments: 16 pages including 7 tables and 4 figures, under review

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

Terminology

• GRPO — 39× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Accuracy — 38× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 24× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Credit assignment — 7× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Ablation — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Alignment — 5× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptation — 4× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptive Reasoning — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 4× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Aggregation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fine-Tuning — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Actor — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought Prompting — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Generalization — 2× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Verifier — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code
• Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems
• DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• Instruction-Following Evaluation for Large Language Models

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