@article{differentialsmoothingmitigatessharpening, title = {Differential Smoothing Mitigates Sharpening and Improves LLM Reasoning}, author = {Jingchu Gai and Guanning Zeng and Huaqing Zhang and Aditi Raghunathan}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2511.19942}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19942}, }