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Same Answer, New Box: How Much of RLVR's Out-of-Domain Gain Is Answer Format?

arXiv cs.LG ↗ · 2026-10-16 Cached

This paper finds that 82% of the reported out-of-domain multiple-choice gains from RLVR on four 7B SimpleRL model pairs are artifacts of answer extractors that only read \boxed{} answers, meaning RL mostly teaches models to place answers in the box rather than improving actual reasoning.

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