AI Daily — October 5, 2026
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Counterexample Generation via Per-Theorem Symbolic Verifiers: When Imitation Hurts and Reinforcement Repairs
Researchers identify a 'falsification gap' in LLMs: models that can solve a theorem forward often fail to disprove closely related false ones, and supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on counterexamples actively worsens true-theorem recognition (collapsing from 0.27 to 0.00). The paper introduces SymCE, a corpus of 4,707 false undergraduate algebra and real-analysis conjectures each paired with executable Python verifiers used as reward functions. Training Qwen3-4B with GRPO under this verifier oracle recovers the capability, highlighting RLVR as a fix for the 'imitation trap' that SFT creates.
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Learning Style, Forgetting Semantics: A Case Study of SFT and RFT on Classification Tasks
Using a tractable linear-softmax policy, this paper provides an exact decomposition of gradient updates into semantic vs. stylistic components, explaining why SFT causes more catastrophic forgetting than reinforcement fine-tuning (RFT). The key finding is that SFT and RFT share parallel semantic update directions but diverge in style dynamics: SFT overfits to teacher stylistic preferences while RFT preserves within-class diversity. This offers a principled, theoretical account for a widely observed empirical phenomenon in LLM fine-tuning.
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