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# Who cites «Learning to Reason without External Rewards»

44 papers of our library cite it (of the 149,439 whose bibliographies we read) · 18 with a page here, the most cited first · [← back to «Learning to Reason without External Rewards»](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2025-learning-reason-external-rewards/)

1. **[Towards Reasoning Era: A Survey of Long Chain-of-Thought for Reasoning Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2025-towards-reasoning-era-survey-long/) [Science China Information Sciences](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/science-china-information-sciences/)**Qiguang Chen, Libo Qin, Jinhao Liu, et al.*2025 · 176 citations*
2. [**Rubrics as Rewards: Reinforcement Learning Beyond Verifiable Domains arXiv:2507.17746**Anisha Gunjal, Anthony Wang, Elaine Lau, et al.*2025 · 73 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gunjal-2025-rubrics-rewards-reinforcement-learning-verifiable/)
3. [**Deep Think with Confidence arXiv:2508.15260**Yichao Fu, Xuewei Wang, Yuandong Tian, et al.*2025 · 61 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fu-2025-deep-think-confidence/)
4. [**Spurious Rewards: Rethinking Training Signals in RLVR arXiv:2506.10947**Rulin Shao, Shuyue Stella Li, Rui Xin, et al.*2025 · 53 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shao-2025-spurious-rewards-rethinking-training-signals/)
5. [**Can Large Reasoning Models Self-Train? arXiv:2505.21444**Sheikh Shafayat, Fahim Tajwar, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, et al.*2025 · 16 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shafayat-2025-large-reasoning-models-self-train/)
6. [**SciMaster: Towards General-Purpose Scientific AI Agents, Part I. X-Master as Foundation: Can We Lead on Humanity's Last Exam? arXiv:2507.05241**Jingyi Chai, Shuo Tang, Rui Ye, et al.*2025 · 13 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chai-2025-scimaster-towards-general-purpose-scientific/)
7. **[Guided by Gut: Efficient Test-Time Scaling with Reinforced Intrinsic Confidence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghasemabadi-2026-guided-gut-efficient-test-time/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Amirhosein Ghasemabadi, Keith G. Mills, Baochun Li, et al.*2026 · 4 citations*
8. **[Behavior Knowledge Merge in Reinforced Agentic Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yuan-2026-behavior-knowledge-merge-reinforced-agentic/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Xiangchi Yuan, Dachuan Shi, Chunhui Zhang, et al.*2026 · 3 citations*
9. **[What If Consensus Lies? Selective-Complementary Reinforcement Learning at Test Time](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yan-2026-what-if-consensus-lies-selective/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Dong Yan, Jian Liang, Yanbo Wang, et al.*2026 · 2 citations*
10. **[CoVerRL: Breaking the Consensus Trap in Label-Free Reasoning via Generator-Verifier Co-Evolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pan-2026-coverrl-breaking-consensus-trap-label/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Teng Pan, Yuchen Yan, Zixuan Wang, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*
11. **[Easy Samples Are All You Need: Self-Evolving LLMs via Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yu-2026-easy-samples-are-all-you/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Zhiyin Yu, Bo Zhang, Qibin Hou, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*
12. **[From Passive Metric to Active Signal: The Evolving Role of Uncertainty Quantification in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-passive-metric-active-signal-evolving/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Jiaxin Zhang, Wendi Cui, Zhuohang Li, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*
13. **[LightReasoner: Can Small Language Models Teach Large Language Models Reasoning?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-lightreasoner-can-small-language-models/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Jingyuan Wang, Yankai Chen, Zhonghang Li, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*
14. **[A Survey of Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models under Data Scarcity: Challenges and Solutions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yu-2026-survey-reinforcement-learning-large-language/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Zhiyin Yu, Yuchen Mou, Juncheng Yan, et al.*2026*
15. **[Think Before you Write: QA-Guided Reasoning for Character Descriptions in Books](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/papoudakis-2026-think-before-you-write-qa/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Argyrios Papoudakis, Mirella Lapata, Frank Keller*2026*
16. **[Triviality Corrected Endogenous Reward](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-triviality-corrected-endogenous-reward/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Xinda Wang, Zhengxu Hou, Yangshijie Zhang, et al.*2026*
17. **[Understanding and Mitigating Spurious Signal Amplification in Test-Time Reinforcement Learning for Math Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yu-2026-understanding-mitigating-spurious-signal-amplification/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Yongcan Yu, Lingxiao He, Jian Liang, et al.*2026*
18. **[Verifier-Free RL for LLMs via Intrinsic Gradient-Norm Reward](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wen-2026-verifier-free-rl-llms-intrinsic/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Xuexiang Wen, Hang Yu, Linchao Zhu, et al.*2026*

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