In this post we break down a recent Alibaba’s paper: START: Self-taught Reasoner with Tools. This paper shows how Large Language Models (LLMs) can teach themselves to debug their own thinking using Python. Introduction Top reasoning models, such as DeepSeek-R1, achieve remarkable results with long chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning. These models are presented with complex problems […] The post START by Alibaba: Teaching LLMs To Debug Themselves appeared first on AI Papers Academy.