Ask, Condition or Abstain: Reinforcement Learning for Missing-Premise Reasoning
Answer-only reinforcement learning (RL) trains reasoning models to solve fully specified problems, but many realistic queries omit a premise needed for a unique answer. In this setting, the useful response is not always refusal: the model should ask for the missing premise, condition its answer on the unknown quantity, or abstain when no informative conditional response is available. We present \emph{Ask-Condition-Abstain Reinforcement Learning} (ACA-RL), a data-augmented RL framework for this setting. Its reasoning-graph-guided pipeline converts well-posed problems into missing-premise traini