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The Self-Improvement Paradox: Can Language Models Bootstrap Reasoning Capabilities without External Scaffolding?

As of 8 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 0 of 0 outbound references and 2 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2502.13441.

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Source: scholarly_work_events, retraction_status_cache, observed 2026-08-08T06:32:00.761636+00:00

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Source: paper_references, paper_reference_links, observed 2026-08-06T20:54:50.208556Z

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Source: arxiv_reference, observed 2026-05-11T15:16:10.545922Z

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Tuning without Peeking: Provable Generalization Bounds and Robust LLM Post-Training cites this paper.

Tuning without Peeking: Provable Generalization Bounds and Robust LLM Post-Training The Self-Improvement Paradox: Can Language Models Bootstrap Reasoning Capabilities without External Scaffolding?

Reference 88

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Online Self-Calibration Against Hallucination in Vision-Language Models cites this paper.

Online Self-Calibration Against Hallucination in Vision-Language Models The Self-Improvement Paradox: Can Language Models Bootstrap Reasoning Capabilities without External Scaffolding?

Reference 31

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arxiv_id, observed 2026-05-11T15:16:10.568813Z

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