Study Explores Reasoning Creativity and Compositional Generalization

tw_killian · x · 2026-07-10

This ICML 2026 study investigates whether models can solve new reasoning problems by recombining previously mastered skills, referred to as "reasoning creativity." It provides a mechanistic analysis of how SFT and RL help models extract reusable structures.

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