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arxiv: 2605.17037 · v1 · pith:XZVRNAW7new · submitted 2026-05-16 · 💻 cs.LG · cs.AI· cs.CL

D²Evo: Dual Difficulty-Aware Self-Evolution for Data-Efficient Reinforcement Learning

Ru Zhang , Renda Li , Ziyu Ma , Weijie Qiu , Chongyang Tao , Yong Wang , Xiangxiang Chu This is my paper

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classification 💻 cs.LG cs.AIcs.CL
keywords reinforcement learninglarge language modelsmathematical reasoningself-evolutiondata efficiencydifficulty adaptationco-evolution
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D²Evo achieves data-efficient RL for LLM reasoning by mining medium-difficulty anchors and jointly evolving a question generator with the solver.

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The paper establishes a reinforcement learning approach that keeps generating useful training examples for large language models even as their reasoning ability improves. It does so by repeatedly selecting medium-difficulty problems based on the current solver's success rate, then training a separate questioner component to produce new problems at matching levels, and optimizing both together in each round. This setup directly tackles the problems of scarce medium-difficulty data and the fact that fixed datasets quickly become too easy. A sympathetic reader would care because the method reaches competitive mathematical reasoning performance while using fewer than two thousand real samples and transfers to broader reasoning tasks.

Core claim

In each iteration, the method mines medium-difficulty anchors based on the current Solver's capability, trains the Questioner to generate diverse questions at appropriate difficulty levels, and jointly optimizes both components to enable progressive reasoning gains. This process addresses effective data scarcity and dynamic difficulty shifts that arise during RL training of LLMs for reasoning.

What carries the argument

The dual difficulty-aware self-evolution loop that mines anchors from the solver's current performance to guide the questioner in producing new training samples at matched difficulty levels.

If this is right

  • The approach outperforms prior methods on mathematical reasoning benchmarks while using fewer than 2K real samples.
  • Training produces stable progressive gains through repeated co-optimization of questioner and solver.
  • The resulting models exhibit strong generalization when evaluated on general reasoning benchmarks.
  • The framework mitigates both data scarcity and the loss of medium-difficulty signals as model capability rises.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same anchoring principle could be tested in non-math domains such as code generation or multi-step planning where optimal task difficulty also shifts with agent skill.
  • If the co-evolution loop proves stable at larger scales, the method would reduce reliance on human-curated datasets for applying RL to specialized reasoning tasks.
  • One could measure whether the generated questions maintain diversity across iterations or converge to a narrow set of problem types.

Load-bearing premise

The question generator will continue to produce useful training examples only if it remains aligned with the solver's improving ability and avoids drifting into questions that are consistently too easy or too hard.

What would settle it

After multiple iterations, measure the solver's success rate on the newly generated questions; if the rate moves close to zero or close to one instead of staying in the medium range, the progressive-gain claim would be falsified.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.17037 by Chongyang Tao, Renda Li, Ru Zhang, Weijie Qiu, Xiangxiang Chu, Yong Wang, Ziyu Ma.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Top: Performance on mathematical benchmarks when training on Math12K subsets of different difficulty levels. Bot￾tom: Difficulty distributions of two commonly used datasets and acceptance rates of generated questions across difficulty levels. Difficulty measured by rollout average accuracy; acceptance rate evaluated using GPT-5.2 (see Sec. 4.2 for details). Experiments use Qwen3-4B-Base. However, GRPO is h… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Difficulty distribution before and after one epoch GRPO on OpenRs-7K and Math-12K dataset, conducted with Qwen-3- 8B-Base. • We conduct extensive evaluation demonstrating that D 2Evo achieves superior performance on mathematical tasks and shows generalization capability on general benchmarks, using fewer than 2K real samples. 2. Method 2.1. Motivation A recent study (Bae et al., 2025) demonstrates that the… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: An overview of our framework. At each iteration, mid-difficulty anchors are mined from real data by a frozen Solver. Conditioned on these anchors, the Questioner is optimized with GRPO under a difficulty-aware reward to generate diverse questions within the target difficulty band. We then construct a hybrid buffer of anchors and filtered generations, and update the Solver with GRPO on this hybrid buffer, f… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Mathematical and general reasoning performance of the Questioner under independent training and in D2Evo across iterations. to facilitate knowledge transfer between question genera￾tion and problem solving. To further analyze this effect, we examine the mathematical and general reasoning capa￾bilities of the Questioner under independent training and within D2Evo across iterations. As shown in [PITH_FULL_I… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Comparison of question generation capability between R-Zero and D2Evo. Left and middle: evolution of average difficulty and acceptance rate of generated questions across iterations. Right: difficulty distributions of generated questions with respect to the current Solver for R-Zero and D2Evo. ble 5 shows that at each iteration, the Solver’s acceptance rate on question generation is comparable to or higher … view at source ↗
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Reinforcement learning (RL) has demonstrated potential for enhancing reasoning in large language models (LLMs). However, effective RL training, which requires medium-difficulty training samples, faces two fundamental challenges: Effective Data Scarcity and Dynamic Difficulty Shifts, where medium-difficulty samples are scarce and become trivial as models improve. Existing methods mitigate this scarcity to some extent by generating training samples. However, these approaches suffer from anchor-free generation, ignoring co-evolution, and difficulty mismatch. To address these issues, we propose D$^2$Evo, a Dual Difficulty-aware self-Evolution RL framework. In each iteration, our method mines medium-difficulty anchors based on the current Solver's capability, trains the Questioner to generate diverse questions at appropriate difficulty levels, and jointly optimizes both components to enable progressive reasoning gains. Extensive experiments demonstrate that D$^2$Evo outperforms existing methods on mathematical reasoning benchmarks with fewer than 2K real mathematical samples, and exhibits strong generalization on general reasoning benchmarks.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes D²Evo, a Dual Difficulty-aware self-Evolution RL framework for data-efficient reasoning in LLMs. In each iteration it mines medium-difficulty anchors from the current Solver's performance on a small set of real samples, trains a Questioner to generate diverse questions at matching difficulty levels, and jointly optimizes both components. The central claim is that this co-evolution produces stable progressive gains, outperforming prior methods on mathematical reasoning benchmarks while using fewer than 2K real mathematical samples and exhibiting strong generalization on general reasoning benchmarks.

Significance. If the empirical results and stability of the co-evolution loop hold, the work would be significant for reducing reliance on large human-annotated datasets in RL for LLM reasoning. The explicit use of difficulty anchors derived from the evolving Solver and the joint training of Questioner and Solver represent a concrete mechanism for handling dynamic difficulty shifts, which could influence subsequent self-improvement and synthetic-data pipelines.

major comments (2)
  1. [§3.2] §3.2 (Anchor Mining): the medium-difficulty threshold is defined relative to the Solver's accuracy on the same small real-sample set used for evaluation; this introduces a potential circularity because performance gains are measured against thresholds that are themselves updated by the evolving Solver, and no fixed external difficulty oracle or held-out validation set is used to decouple the two.
  2. [§4.3] §4.3 (Ablation and Iteration Analysis): while per-iteration accuracy curves are reported, there is no monitoring of the difficulty distribution of generated questions across iterations or ablation on the anchor-selection threshold; without these, it is impossible to verify that the claimed progressive gains are not artifacts of persistent difficulty mismatch or mode collapse in the Questioner.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3.1] Notation for the difficulty estimator E_p is introduced without an explicit equation; adding a numbered equation would clarify how the medium-difficulty band is computed from Solver logits.
  2. [Table 2] Table 2 caption does not state the number of random seeds or whether error bars reflect standard deviation across runs.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the thoughtful and constructive comments. We address each major comment below with clarifications and indicate the revisions we will make to strengthen the presentation of our method.

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  1. Referee: [§3.2] §3.2 (Anchor Mining): the medium-difficulty threshold is defined relative to the Solver's accuracy on the same small real-sample set used for evaluation; this introduces a potential circularity because performance gains are measured against thresholds that are themselves updated by the evolving Solver, and no fixed external difficulty oracle or held-out validation set is used to decouple the two.

    Authors: We appreciate the referee highlighting this design aspect. The adaptive threshold is intentionally computed from the Solver's current performance on the small real-sample set so that medium-difficulty anchors remain relevant as the model evolves; this is a core feature of the self-evolution framework rather than an unintended circularity. Crucially, all reported performance gains are measured on standard held-out mathematical reasoning benchmarks (MATH, GSM8K, etc.) that are completely disjoint from the mining set. We will revise §3.2 to explicitly state this separation, clarify the rationale for using an evolving internal reference instead of a fixed external oracle, and add a brief experiment that reserves a small held-out portion of the real samples solely for threshold validation. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4.3] §4.3 (Ablation and Iteration Analysis): while per-iteration accuracy curves are reported, there is no monitoring of the difficulty distribution of generated questions across iterations or ablation on the anchor-selection threshold; without these, it is impossible to verify that the claimed progressive gains are not artifacts of persistent difficulty mismatch or mode collapse in the Questioner.

    Authors: We agree that additional diagnostics would make the stability claims more robust. In the revised manuscript we will add (i) plots tracking the distribution of estimated difficulty levels of questions generated by the Questioner across iterations and (ii) an ablation varying the anchor-selection threshold (e.g., different accuracy percentiles used to define “medium” difficulty). These new results will be placed in §4.3 and will help demonstrate that the observed gains arise from effective difficulty matching rather than mismatch or collapse. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The paper describes an iterative algorithmic framework (D²Evo) for co-evolving a Solver and Questioner via RL, with medium-difficulty anchors mined from the current Solver's performance on a fixed set of real samples. This process is presented as an empirical method rather than a closed mathematical derivation. No equations are shown that reduce a claimed prediction or result to a fitted parameter or self-defined quantity by construction. No load-bearing self-citations to uniqueness theorems or ansatzes from prior author work are invoked. Claims of data-efficient gains rest on external benchmark evaluations (mathematical and general reasoning tasks) using fewer than 2K real samples, which are independent of the internal difficulty thresholds. The approach is therefore self-contained against external benchmarks.

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