CORE: Concept-Oriented Reinforcement for Bridging the Definition-Application Gap in Mathematical Reasoning
Researchers introduce CORE (Concept-Oriented REinforcement), a new training framework that improves large language models' mathematical reasoning by bridging the gap between memorizing definitions and applying concepts. The method uses concept-aligned quizzes and concept-primed trajectories to provide fine-grained supervision, showing consistent improvements over traditional training approaches across multiple benchmarks.