Achieving Gold-Medal-Level Olympiad Reasoning via Simple and Unified Scaling


SU-01 Pipeline

SU-01 Pipeline

Instilling Rigorous Reasoning via Supervised Fine-tuning

Boosting Reasoning Capability with Reinforcement Learning

Achieving Gold-Medal-Level Reasoning via Test-time Scaling

Results

Core Benchmark Results

Table 1

Performance on Answer-Verifiable Reasoning Tasks

Model AnswerBench AMO-Bench AIME 25/26 FrontierScience-Olympiad Avg.
Physics Chemistry Biology Overall
P1-30B-A3B 69.3% 41.3% 90.4% / 89.6% 57.5% 57.5% 27.5% 54.5% 69.0%
GLM-4.7-Flash 73.8% 53.8% 91.3% / 88.3% 54.5% 60.0% 17.5% 53.0% 72.0%
Nemotron-Cascade-2 80.5% 40.8% 94.2% / 90.0% 56.0% 56.3% 30.0% 53.5% 71.8%
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B 78.0% 58.8% 92.5% / 92.9% 65.5% 74.4% 25.0% 65.0% 77.4%
Gemma-4-31B 74.0% 39.3% 88.8% / 91.3% 69.0% 61.9% 27.5% 61.0% 70.9%
SU-01 77.5% 59.8% 94.6% / 93.3% 62.5% 69.4% 25.0% 61.5% 77.3%
Bold marks the best score within the comparison block; underline marks the second best. FrontierScience-Olympiad abbreviates the Olympiad subset of FrontierScience.

Table 2

Performance on Non-Verifiable Benchmarks

Model IMO-ProofBench FrontierScience-Research
Basic Advanced Overall Physics Chemistry Biology Overall
Larger models
Gemini 3.1 Pro Thinking 95.2% 50.0% 72.6% 0.0% 30.0% 10.0% 13.3%
GPT-5.5-High 96.7% 64.8% 80.7% 25.0% 40.0% 45.0% 36.7%
DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale 62.9% 28.6% 45.7% 10.0% 20.0% 15.0% 15.0%
Similar-size models
P1-30B-A3B 33.8% 6.2% 20.0% 0.0% 10.0% 0.0% 3.3%
GLM-4.7-Flash 51.0% 16.7% 33.8% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0% 0.0%
Nemotron-Cascade-2 77.1% 28.6% 52.9% 5.0% 5.0% 20.0% 10.0%
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B 39.1% 7.1% 23.1% 0.0% 5.0% 10.0% 5.0%
Gemma-4-31B 46.7% 16.2% 31.4% 0.0% 10.0% 5.0% 5.0%
SU-01 77.1%/91.0% 38.1%/49.5% 57.6%/70.2% 10.0% 10.0% 15.0% 11.7%
Bold and underline indicate the best and second-best results within each comparison block.

Table 3

Performance on Olympiad Competition Problems

IPhO 2024/2025
Model IPhO 2024 IPhO 2025
Similar-size models
P1-30B-A3B 23.1 17.7
GLM-4.7-Flash 22.2 19.5
Nemotron-Cascade-2 21.2 16.7
Qwen3.6-35B-A3B 24.3 19.9
Gemma-4-31B 24.4 20.3
SU-01 23.5/25.3 20.3/21.7
IMO 2025
Model P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 Total
SU-01 1 7 1 6 6 0 21
SU-01 w/ TTS 7* 7* 7* 7* 7* 0* 35*Gold medal
USAMO 2026
Model P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 Total
SU-01 7 0 0 7 0 1 15
SU-01 w/ TTS 7* 0* 7* 7* 7* 7* 35*Gold medal
Gold lines for IPhO 2024/2025 are 20.8/19.7 points; medal lines for IMO 2025 are 35/28/19 points; medal lines for USAMO 2026 are 25/18/11 points. TTS denotes test-time scaling.

测试时扩展的工作机制

Test-time Scaling Action Length Distribution

Case Study

IMO 2025

USAMO 2026

Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. We thank the authors and maintainers of prior open research and infrastructure that made this work possible. In particular, we are grateful to DeepSeek for open-sourcing strong reasoning policies and generative reward models, which provided an important reference point for our work. IMO-Bench, AMO-Bench, and FrontierScience helped guide the overall system optimization by offering challenging mathematical and scientific reasoning benchmarks and evaluation protocols. We also thank prior data efforts that supported our SFT and RL data curation, including DeepMath, NaturalReasoning, Eurus, OpenCodeReasoning, P1, and OPC, as well as the many public problem sources and communities that cannot all be listed here. We further acknowledge the broader open-source infrastructure ecosystem, including slime for training and SGLang for efficient inference and serving. This work was supported by the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Citation

@misc{su012026, title={Achieving Gold-Medal-Level Olympiad Reasoning via Simple and Unified Scaling}, author={Yafu Li and Runzhe Zhan and Haoran Zhang and Shunkai Zhang and Yizhuo Li and Zhilin Wang and Jiacheng Chen and Futing Wang and Xuyang Hu and Yuchen Fan and Bangjie Xu and Yucheng Su and Xinmiao Han and Chenxi Li and Haodi Lei and Yufeng Zhao and Zejin Lin and Qianjia Cheng and Tong Zhu and Xiaoye Qu and Ganqu Cui and Peng Ye and Yun Luo and Zhouchen Lin and Yu Qiao and Bowen Zhou and Ning Ding and Yu Cheng}, year={2026}, url={http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13301} }