The Invisible Leash: Why RLVR May Not Escape Its Origin

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The Invisible Leash? Why RLVR May or May Not Escape Its Origin Fang Wu * 1 Weihao Xuan * 2 3 Ximing Lu 4 5 Mingjie Liu 5 Yi Dong 5 Zaid Harchaoui 4 Yejin Choi 1 5 Abstract arXiv:2507.14843v4 [cs.LG] 4 Feb 2026 AIME2024 AI Recent advances highlight Reinforcement Learn-…

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