Loong: Synthesize Long Chain-of-Thoughts at Scale through Verifiers
Abstract
Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown that their reasoning capabilities can be significantly improved through Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward (RLVR), particularly in domains like mathematics and programming, where ground-truth correctness can be automatically evaluated. However, extending this success to other reasoning-intensive domains remains challenging due to the scarcity of high-quality, verifiable datasets and the high cost of human supervision. In this work, we introduce the Loong Project: an open-source framework for scalable synthetic data generation and verification across a diverse range of reasoning-intensive domains. The framework consists of two key components: (1) LoongBench, a curated seed dataset containing 8,729 human-vetted examples across 12 domains (e.g., Advanced Mathematics, Chemistry, Logic), each paired with executable code and rich metadata; and (2) LoongEnv, a modular synthetic data generation environment that supports multiple prompting strategies to produce new question-answer-code triples. Together, these components form an agent-environment loop that enables reinforcement learning, where an LLM-based agent is rewarded for generating Chain-of-Thought (CoT) solutions that align with code-executed answers. Empirically, we benchmark LoongBench on a broad suite of both open-source and proprietary LLMs to evaluate domain coverage and reveal performance bottlenecks. In addition, we conduct a comprehensive analysis of synthetic data generated by LoongEnv, examining correctness, difficulty, and diversity. Code and documentation are available at https://github.com/camel-ai/loong.
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@article{arxiv.2509.03059,
title = {Loong: Synthesize Long Chain-of-Thoughts at Scale through Verifiers},
author = {Xingyue Huang and Rishabh and Gregor Franke and Ziyi Yang and Jiamu Bai and Weijie Bai and Jinhe Bi and Zifeng Ding and Yiqun Duan and Chengyu Fan and Wendong Fan and Xin Gao and Ruohao Guo and Yuan He and Zhuangzhuang He and Xianglong Hu and Neil Johnson and Bowen Li and Fangru Lin and Siyu Lin and Tong Liu and Yunpu Ma and Hao Shen and Hao Sun and Beibei Wang and Fangyijie Wang and Hao Wang and Haoran Wang and Yang Wang and Yifeng Wang and Zhaowei Wang and Ziyang Wang and Yifan Wu and Zikai Xiao and Chengxing Xie and Fan Yang and Junxiao Yang and Qianshuo Ye and Ziyu Ye and Guangtao Zeng and Yuwen Ebony Zhang and Zeyu Zhang and Zihao Zhu and Bernard Ghanem and Philip Torr and Guohao Li},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.03059},
year = {2025}
}