{"podcast":{"title":"Daily Paper Cast","slug":"daily-paper-cast-7079649","podcast_index_feed_id":7079649,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/daily-paper-cast-ai","website_url":"https://dailypapercast.transistor.fm/","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/IxaBeiMluxrMS9W9wB8hFMfmvH27KvwaSMzuhucupn0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81Zjg1/YzRhODczMDU4MmE4/OGMwN2FiNDlmYzI2/MDliMi5qcGVn.jpg","author":"Jingwen Liang, Gengyu Wang","episode_count":1967,"summary":"We update every weekday to discuss highest-voted papers from Huggingface Daily Paper (https://huggingface.co/papers). Both the podcast scripts and audio are generated by AI. Feedback and suggestions are welcome! Email us: dailypapercast.ai@gmail.com Creator: Jingwen Liang, 3D ML, https://www.linkedin.com/in/jingwen-liang/ Gengyu Wang, LLM ML, http://wanggengyu.com Listen on: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/21nrhmdaA8qoBiH8q03NXL Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daily-paper-cast/id1777620236 Cover Image by Kawen Kuang https://kawen.art","last_synced_at":"2026-06-14T04:17:49.264124+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-paper-cast-7079649"},"episode":{"title":"Nudging Beyond the Comfort Zone: Efficient Strategy-Guided Exploration for RLVR","slug":"nudging-beyond-the-comfort-zone-efficient-strategy-guided-exploration-for-rlvr","published_at":"2026-05-19T04:19:28+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-paper-cast-7079649/nudging-beyond-the-comfort-zone-efficient-strategy-guided-exploration-for-rlvr","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-paper-cast-7079649","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/7f34b019","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/7f34b019/bfc03ac5.mp3","summary":"🤗 Upvotes: 28 | cs.AI, cs.CL Authors: Chanuk Lee, Sangwoo Park, Minki Kang, Sung Ju Hwang Title: Nudging Beyond the Comfort Zone: Efficient Strategy-Guided Exploration for RLVR Arxiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15726v1 Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a scalable paradigm for improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models. However, its effectiveness is fundamentally limited by exploration: the policy can only improve on trajectories it has already sampled. While increasing the number of rollouts alleviates this issue, such brute-force scaling is computationally expensive, and existing approaches that modify the optimization objective provide limited control over what is explored. In this work, we propose NudgeRL, a framework for structured and diversity-driven exploration in RLVR. Our approach introduces Strategy Nudging, which conditions each rollout on lightweight, strategy-level contexts to induce diverse reasoning trajectories without relying on expensive oracle supervision. To effectively learn from such structured exploration, we further propose a unified objective, which decomposes the reward signal into inter- and intra-context components and incorporates a distillation objective to transfer discovered behaviors back to the base policy. Empirically, NudgeRL outperforms standard GRPO with up to 8 times larger rollout budgets, while outperforming oracle-guided RL baseline on average across five challenging math benchmarks. These results demonstrate that structured, context-driven exploration can serve as an efficient and scalable alternative to both brute-force rollout scaling and feasibility-oriented methods based on privileged information. Our code is available at https://github.com/tally0818/NudgeRL.","meta_description":"🤗 Upvotes: 28 | cs.AI, cs.CL Authors: Chanuk Lee, Sangwoo Park, Minki Kang, Sung Ju Hwang Title: Nudging Beyond the Comfort Zone: Efficient Strategy-Guide…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1267,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/daily-paper-cast-7079649/episodes/nudging-beyond-the-comfort-zone-efficient-strategy-guided-exploration-for-rlvr/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/daily-paper-cast-7079649/nudging-beyond-the-comfort-zone-efficient-strategy-guided-exploration-for-rlvr.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}