It was introduced in the paper
Learning to Reason without External Rewards. The official implementation is available in the
Intuitor GitHub repository.
RLIF enables LLMs to learn from intrinsic signals without external rewards, gold labels, or domain-specific verifiers. Intuitor replaces external rewards in Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) with self-certainty scores, enabling fully unsupervised learning that generalizes well across different reasoning domains.
1@article{zhao2025learning,
2 title = {Learning to Reason without External Rewards},
3 author = {Zhao, Xuandong and Kang, Zhewei and Feng, Aosong and Levine, Sergey and Song, Dawn},
4 journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.19590},
5 year = {2025}
6}