# Balancing Reference Guidance and Free Generation in Trajectory Rollouts for Reasoning RL

**Published:** October 9, 2026
**Author:** Hanyu Wang, Nakul Agarwal, Hossein Nourkhiz Mahjoub, Ehsan Moradi Pari, Makoto Fukushima, Jinghui Chen, Vaishnav Tadiparthi
**Source:** arXiv — cs.AI
**Language:** en-US
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A verified reference solution provides a correct trajectory for training a reasoning model. Alternatively, a prefix of the reference can guide the model in generating a trajectory of its own. How much reference guidance should we provide? We study this question through prefix…

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