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SPLIT-RL: Staged Perception-Language Reasoning Training with Claim-Level Advantages
Vision-Language (VL) reasoning requires a model to both extract relevant and accurate information from an image (visual reasoning, VR), and to infer the answer from it (language reasoning, LR). Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards typically trains both through a single chain-of-thought with a final-answer rew …