Safal Shrestha

According to our database, Safal Shrestha authored at least 6 papers between 2025 and 2026.

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2026

On the Limits of Layer Pruning for Generative Reasoning in LLMs.

Safal Shrestha, Anubhav Shrestha, Aadim Nepal, Minwu Kim, Keith W. Ross

CoRR, February, 2026

Training Reasoning Models on Saturated Problems via Failure-Prefix Conditioning.

Minwu Kim, Safal Shrestha, Keith W. Ross

CoRR, January, 2026

2025

Layer Importance for Mathematical Reasoning is Forged in Pre-Training and Invariant after Post-Training.

Aadim Nepal, Safal Shrestha, Anubhav Shrestha, Minwu Kim, Keith W. Ross

CoRR, June, 2025

Reinforcement Learning vs. Distillation: Understanding Accuracy and Capability in LLM Reasoning.

Minwu Kim, Anubhav Shrestha, Safal Shrestha, Aadim Nepal, Keith W. Ross

CoRR, May, 2025

Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models: Assessing Logical and Arithmetic Errors across Wide Numerical Ranges.

Safal Shrestha, Minwu Kim, Keith W. Ross

CoRR, February, 2025

Warm Up Before You Train: Unlocking General Reasoning in Resource-Constrained Settings.

Safal Shrestha, Minwu Kim, Aadim Nepal, Anubhav Shrestha, Keith W. Ross

Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025