MENTOR: Learning from Failure with On-Policy Pedagogical Intervention
arXiv:2610.13594v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) is a key driver for Large Reasoning Models, but it is vulnerable to "zero-reward collapse", a training failure where a sudden increase in task difficulty causes the learning signal to vanish. We argue that the conventional approach of discarding these failed trajectories is wasteful, as they contain valuable diagnostic information about the model's cognitive gaps, a bright side that can be leve…