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Skeptical AI agents
The 4B model that beats 32B ones by refusing to trust itself
RefineRL trains small language models to iteratively refine their own competitive programming solutions using a skeptical agent and reinforcement learning. A 4B model using this method outperforms 32B models and approaches 235B performance, suggesting that self-refinement, not raw size, may be a stronger scaling path for reasoning tasks.
2026-07-25