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InfoDensity: AUC-Based Rewards Reduce Reasoning Verbosity Without Accuracy Loss.

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ArXiv 2603.17310 introduces training rewards based on AUC of information gain across reasoning steps rather than final-answer correctness. Directly targets "reasoning theater" where extended chain-of-thought adds tokens without proportional accuracy gains. Compatible with existing RLHF pipelines. arXiv

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