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Main Authors: Liu, Yang, Li, Jiaqi, Zheng, Zilong
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08672
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author Liu, Yang
Li, Jiaqi
Zheng, Zilong
author_facet Liu, Yang
Li, Jiaqi
Zheng, Zilong
contents Rule-based reasoning is acknowledged as one of the fundamental problems of reasoning. While recent studies show that large reasoning models (LRMs) have remarkable reasoning capabilities enhanced by reinforcement learning (RL), real applications still face severe challenges due to variations in rule formats, types, and complexity. To mitigate this issue, we introduce RuleReasoner, an effective method for rule-based reasoning via a wide collection of curated tasks and a novel domain-aware dynamic sampling approach in RL. Specifically, RuleReasoner resamples each training batch by updating the domain weights based on historical rewards. This facilitates domain balance and active learning schedules for RL, obviating static mix-training engineered by human. Evaluations on in-distribution (ID) and out-of-distribution (OOD) benchmarks reveal that RuleReasoner outperforms frontier LRMs by a significant margin ($Δ$4.1% on eight ID tasks and $Δ$10.4% on three OOD tasks over OpenAI-o1). Notably, our approach also exhibits higher computational efficiency compared to prior methods.
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spellingShingle RuleReasoner: Reinforced Rule-based Reasoning via Domain-aware Dynamic Sampling
Liu, Yang
Li, Jiaqi
Zheng, Zilong
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Rule-based reasoning is acknowledged as one of the fundamental problems of reasoning. While recent studies show that large reasoning models (LRMs) have remarkable reasoning capabilities enhanced by reinforcement learning (RL), real applications still face severe challenges due to variations in rule formats, types, and complexity. To mitigate this issue, we introduce RuleReasoner, an effective method for rule-based reasoning via a wide collection of curated tasks and a novel domain-aware dynamic sampling approach in RL. Specifically, RuleReasoner resamples each training batch by updating the domain weights based on historical rewards. This facilitates domain balance and active learning schedules for RL, obviating static mix-training engineered by human. Evaluations on in-distribution (ID) and out-of-distribution (OOD) benchmarks reveal that RuleReasoner outperforms frontier LRMs by a significant margin ($Δ$4.1% on eight ID tasks and $Δ$10.4% on three OOD tasks over OpenAI-o1). Notably, our approach also exhibits higher computational efficiency compared to prior methods.
title RuleReasoner: Reinforced Rule-based Reasoning via Domain-aware Dynamic Sampling
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08672