Geometric Analysis of RLVR via Trainable Activation Vectors
September 27, 2026
This study identifies a low-dimensional effective manifold in activation space associated with reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR). Findings show that the capacity required to reproduce RL gains is small but not infinitely compressible, with dimensionality constraints varying by injection depth.
HOW THIS AFFECTS YOU
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researcherYou can use vector steering to manipulate reasoning gains by targeting specific low-dimensional manifolds.