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Achieving Gold-Medal-Level Olympiad Reasoning via Simple and Unified Scaling

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Achieving Gold-Medal-Level Olympiad Reasoning via Simple and Unified Scaling

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A systematic approach transforms post-trained reasoning models into rigorous olympiad-level solvers through reverse-perplexity curriculum, two-stage reinforcement learning, and test-time scaling, achieving gold-medal performance on mathematical and physics competitions.

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Recent progress in reasoning models has substantially advanced long-horizon mathematical and scientific problem solving, with several systems now reaching gold-medal-level performance on International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) and International Physics Olympiad (IPhO) problems. In this paper, we introduce a simple and unified recipe for converting a post-trained reasoning backbone into a rigorous olympiad-level solver. The recipe first uses a reverse-perplexity curriculum for SFT to instill rigorous proof-search and self-checking behaviors, then scales these behaviors through a two-stage RL pipeline that progresses from RL with verifiable rewards to more delicate proof-level RL, and finally boosts solving performance with test-time scaling. Applying this recipe, we train a 30B-A3B backbone with SFT on around 340K sub-8K-token trajectories followed by 200 RL steps. The resulting model, SU-01, supports stable reasoning on difficult problems with trajectories exceeding 100K tokens, while achieving gold-medal-level performance on mathematical and physical olympiad competitions, including IMO 2025/USAMO 2026 and IPhO 2024/2025. It also demonstrates strong generalization of scientific reasoning to domains beyond mathematics and physics.

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We have open-sourced our code and model. Please check out our project page and GitHub repository:

https://simplified-reasoning.github.io/SU-01/
https://github.com/Simplified-Reasoning/SU-01

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