Journal article
Transfer Is a Directed Relation: Four Quantities Under One Word in the Cross-Domain RLVR Debate, and Why the Structural-Similarity Reading Does Not Survive Its Own Evidence
(c) 2026 Pranay Mahendrakar. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards is the standard route to reasoning-tuned language models, and the field has split over whether its gains leave the training domain. One body of work reports that most models succeeding at…