2026

Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) is pivotal for enhancing LLM code generation, yet its efficacy is often hindered by insufficient test case coverage, leading to reward hacking and policy degradation. To address this, we propose RobustTests, a framework featuring a faulty-code-driven test case synthesis strategy. By leveraging "near-correct" faulty codes, RobustTests captures latent logical discrepancies and employs validator agents with behavioral feature clustering to filter invalid or redundant test cases. Additionally, a stepwise dense reward function based on pass rates is introduced to mitigate false negatives and enhance training robustness. Using this pipeline, we construct an augmented version of the CodeContests+ dataset with superior diagnostic utility. Experimental results show that RL fine-tuning of Qwen3-32B via RobustTests achieves a 3% absolute gain on LiveCodeBench, demonstrating its effectiveness in advancing LLM code generation proficiency. Codes and data are available at https://huggingface.co/datasets/sid6/RobustTests.

2025

Recent Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have demonstrated the ability to generate long chains of thought (LongCoT) before arriving at a final conclusion. Despite remarkable breakthroughs in complex reasoning capabilities, LongCoT still faces challenges such as redundancy and logical incoherence. To address these issues, we aim to equip large language models (LLMs) with rigorous and concise logical reasoning capabilities. In this work, we propose Logic-Thinker, a neural-symbolic reasoning framework that employs symbolic solvers to precisely solve problems and transforms their internal solving processes into concise and rigorous chains of thought, referred to as ThinkerCoT. Our experimental results demonstrate that Logic-Thinker achieves state-of-the-art performance in logical reasoning problems. Additionally, LLMs fine-tuned with ThinkerCoT outperform models distilled from QwQ32B on logic reasoning tasks, achieving an overall accuracy improvement of 3.6% while reducing token output by 73%-91%. Furthermore, ThinkerCoT enhances the comprehensive reasoning capabilities of LLMs, as evidenced by performance improvements on reasoning benchmarks such as GPQA and AIME.