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When Does Curriculum Learning Help? A Knowledge-Aware Learning-Progress Curriculum for RLVR

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Whether an adaptive , knowledge-aware curriculum that mirrors this behaviour improves RLVR reasoning is asked, and—since the question also bears on whether RLVR creates new ability or merely sharpens existing ability—the authors study both on Countdown.

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