This paper trains RLVR reasoning models on token-level distributional deviations rather than uniform token update…

This paper trains RLVR reasoning models on token-level distributional deviations rather than uniform token updates, to avoid the entropy collapse that uniform updates cause. RLVR improves reasoning but suffers an optimization instability:
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