03 / Research output

Publications

Peer-reviewed papers, workshop contributions and preprints. 10 total — expand Abstract or BibTeX on any entry.

All Agents Evaluation LLMs Reasoning Safety Training

2026

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Mid-Training with Self-Generated Data Improves Reinforcement Learning in Language Models

Aswin RRV, Jacob Dineen, Divij Handa, Mihir Parmar, Ben Zhou, Swaroop Mishra, Chitta Baral

Preprint arXiv

TL;DR Mid-training on self-generated data boosts downstream RL and reasoning.

arXiv ↗ LLMsTraining

Shows that mid-training language models on their own self-generated data improves downstream reinforcement learning, yielding stronger reasoning than RL alone.

2025

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ThinkTuning: Instilling Cognitive Reflections without Distillation

Aswin RRV, Jacob Dineen, Divij Handa, Md Nayem Uddin, Mihir Parmar, Chitta Baral, Ben Zhou

✓ EMNLP 2025 Conference

TL;DR Teaches models to self-reflect through teacher feedback, without distillation.

arXiv ↗ ReasoningTraining

A GRPO-based interactive training method where a teacher model gives corrective feedback on a student model’s rollouts, instilling self-reflective reasoning without distillation.