FirsthandTech
arXiv — cs.AI preprintsInternational5 October 2026

$T^5$: Twin-Critic Training for Token-Level Thoughts in Reinforcement Mid-Training

This is an official announcement record

Firsthand records what arXiv — cs.AI preprints announced and links to the original. The wording below is theirs, not ours.

arXiv:2609.32791v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement mid-training lets language models learn internal thoughts from unlabeled text, but efficient token-level credit assignment remains challenging. Existing group-relative methods require costly repeated generation. Learned critics offer single-rollout feedback, but accurate return prediction alone does not ensure reliable policy updates. Our analysis shows how training--inference mismatch and PPO clipping prevent a common offset in advantage estimates from cancelling out, introducing additional update drift. We propose \tfour{}, a
— arXiv — cs.AI preprints

More from arXiv — cs.AI preprints

This content is for informational purposes only and is not professional advice. Specifications, prices, plan tiers, and features change frequently and may differ from what is shown here; verify current details on the manufacturer's or company's official page before purchasing. Ratings are based on analysis of published documentation, not independent lab testing.