@article{goldilocksrltuningtaskdifficultytoescape, title = {Goldilocks RL: Tuning Task Difficulty to Escape Sparse Rewards for Reasoning}, author = {Ilia Mahrooghi and Aryo Lotfi and Emmanuel Abbe}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2602.14868}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.14868}, }