2026
DELTA-Code: How RL Unlocks and Transfers New Programming Algorithms in LLMs
ICLR 2026poster
It remains an open question whether LLMs can acquire or generalize genuinely new reasoning strategies, beyond the sharpened skills encoded in their parameters during pre-training or post-training. To attempt to answer this debate, we introduce DELTA-Code —Distributional Evaluation of Learnability an…