arxivcs.CLcs.AI2026-06-28
To Reason or to Fabricate: Reasoning Without Shortcuts via Hint-Anchored Pairwise Aggregation
Jiuheng Lin, Chen Zhang, Yansong Feng
While reinforcement learning (RL) significantly enhances LLM reasoning, its efficacy is severely undermined by Pre-RL data overlap, where RL datasets overlap with pretraining or SFT corpora, causing models to exploit shortcuts by memorizing correct answers and fabricating post-ho…