Revisiting Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning from A Cross-Domain Perspective
Zhoujun Cheng, Shibo Hao, Tianyang Liu, Fan Zhou, Yutao Xie, Feng Yao, Yuexin Bian, Nilabjo Dey
Abstract
Reinforcement learning (RL) has shown promise in enhancing large language model (LLM) reasoning, yet progress towards broader capabilities is limited by the availability of high-quality, multi-domain datasets. This work introduces \ours, a 92K RL-for-reasoning dataset designed to address this gap, covering six reasoning domains: Math, Code, Science, Logic, Simulation, and Tabular, each with corresponding verifiers. We build \ours via a careful data-curation pipeline, including sourcing, deduplication, reward design, and domain-specific and difficulty-based filtering, to facilitate the systematic investigation of cross-domain RL generalization. Our study using \ours suggests the efficacy of a simple mixed-domain RL training approach and reveals several key aspects affecting cross-domain transferability. We further train two models {\ours}-7B and {\ours}-32B purely with RL on our curated data and observe largely improved performance over leading open RL reasoning model baselines, with gains of 7.3\% and 7.8\% respectively on an extensive 17-task, six-domain evaluation suite. We are releasing our dataset, code, and evaluation suite to the community, aiming to support further research and development of more general RL-enhanced reasoning models.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{
cheng2025revisiting,
title={Revisiting Reinforcement Learning for {LLM} Reasoning from A Cross-Domain Perspective},
author={Zhoujun Cheng and Shibo Hao and Tianyang Liu and Fan Zhou and Yutao Xie and Feng Yao and Yuexin Bian and Nilabjo Dey and Yonghao Zhuang and Yuheng Zha and Yi Gu and Kun Zhou and Yuqi Wang and Yuan Li and Richard Fan and Jianshu She and Chengqian Gao and Abulhair Saparov and Taylor W. Killian and Haonan Li and Mikhail Yurochkin and Eric P. Xing and Zhengzhong Liu and Zhiting Hu},
booktitle={The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems Datasets and Benchmarks Track},
year={2025},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=xUBgfvyip3}
}