Sree Krishna Uppalapati

Reason, Reward, Refine: Step-Level Errors Corrections with Structured Feedback for Physics Reasoning in Small Language Models

Raj Jaiswal, Dhruv Jain, Rishabh Dhawan, Sree Krishna Uppalapati, Shin'ichi Satoh, Tanuja Ganu, et al.

Physics reasoning fails structurally in small language models: an error at any step propagates forward, corrupting every inference that follows. Limited domain knowledge, hallucination under multi-step derivation, and distributional sensitivity compound this failure. We propose a…Read more