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About this paper

Qianjia Cheng, Yuchen Zhang, Zhilin Wang, Yuxin Zuo, Shunkai Zhang, Yuchen Fan, Yu Qiao, Bowen Zhou and 4 more

Researchers from Shanghai AI Laboratory and collaborating universities developed TRICE, a full-pipeline methodology that instills strong thinking models with robust tool-integrated reasoning capabilities, leading to state-of-the-art performance on mathematical benchmarks and cross-domain generalization.

Key insights

  • Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) for tool-integrated reasoning progresses through 'form-substance-noise' stages, where selecting the optimal 'substance' stage checkpoint is crucial for stable and effective downstream reinforcement learning.
  • Effective teacher-generated tool-use patterns are lightweight, high-frequency, and incrementally build upon a persistent sandbox state, facilitating better student model learning.
  • The code executor serves diverse cognitive functions beyond simple computation offloading, frequently assisting in empirical discovery, algorithmic search, and conjecture verification.

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