Entropy-Gradient Inversion: Moving Toward Internal Mechanism of Large Reasoning Models

Junyao Yang, Chen Qian, Kun Wang, Linfeng Zhang, Quanshi Zhang, Yong Liu†, Dongrui Liu†

  • Equal contribution · † Corresponding authors

Entropy-gradient inversion contrasts high-entropy reasoning models with low-entropy non-reasoning models

Entropy-Gradient Inversion identifies a robust negative correlation between token entropy and logit gradients as a geometric signature of reasoning capability. CorR-PO incorporates this signature into reward regularization to stabilize reasoning-model reinforcement learning.

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