Review Rarely Beats the Stronger Model: Separating Verification from Capability Transfer in LLM Pipelines.

arXiv:2610.15897v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Qwen3-8B reviewing Llama-3.1-8B in math adds 33.2 points, yet Qwen3-8B alone is 6.4 points more accurate than the result. Reviewing another model's answer is usually judged by its gain over the generato