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Test-Time Scaling in Reasoning Models Is Not Effective for Knowledge-Intensive Tasks Yet

arXiv:2509. 06861v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Test-time scaling increases inference-time computation through longer reasoning chains and has shown strong performance gains across many domains.

arXiv AI
Sep 24

Planned Test-Time Scaling with Coordinated Reasoning Paths

The paper introduces Planned Test-Time Scaling (PTTS), a method that replaces independent sampling of reasoning branches with a coordinated joint policy. PTTS uses a planner to generate distinct solution outlines for each branch and an executor to produce full solutions, thereby improving coverage of complementary reasoning modes. Two variants—PTTS‑ZS (zero‑shot) and PTTS‑RL (reinforcement‑learned)—demonstrate significant gains on five mathematical reasoning benchmarks, with PTTS‑RL achieving up to a 13.4‑point improvement in pass@64 over repeated sampling.

By Xueqing Wu, Langxing Bai, Hritik Bansal, Po-Nien Kung, Shuo Li, Hao Liu, Nanyun Peng, Kai-Wei Chang
arXiv AI
Aug 5

Test-Time Scaling in Reasoning LLMs: Inference Regimes, Evaluation, and Reproducibility

arXiv:2608. 04001v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models can solve substantially harder reasoning problems with more inference-time compute.

By Mohsen Hariri, Weicong Chen, Nahal Shahini, Vikash Singh, Kai Ye, Amirhossein Samandar, Debargha Ganguly, Sreehari Sankar, Yanyan Zhang, Shouren Wang, Jerry Peng, Biyao Zhang, Michael Hinczewski, Vipin Chaudhary
arXiv AI
Jun 3

Thinking Past the Answer: Evaluating Harmful Overthinking in Large Reasoning Models

arXiv:2606. 02835v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) improve performance by generating explicit intermediate reasoning traces through increased test-time compute, yet the assumption that longer reasoning is consistently beneficial remains under-examined.

By Simone Caldarella, Davide Talon, Rahaf Aljundi, Elisa Ricci, Massimiliano Mancini
arXiv AI
Aug 26

Parason: Revealing Subtask and Trial Parallelism in LLM Reasoning

Parason is a new framework that discovers and exploits both subtask and trial parallelism in large language model (LLM) reasoning. By converting sequential reasoning traces into structured parallel trajectories and training with Parallelism-Aware Group Relative Policy Optimization, it balances accuracy, latency, and parallelism. Experiments on mathematical reasoning benchmarks such as AIME24 and AIME25 show that Parason achieves an average acceleration of about 1.7× while maintaining competitive accuracy.

By Zhengyang Zhang, Zijian Zhang, Jiaxuan Gao, Shusheng Xu, Yi Wu, Song Han, Ligeng Zhu
arXiv AI
Oct 19

Are Large Reasoning Models Good Everyday Reasoners? A Comparison with Non-Reasoning Models on Logical Reasoning Tasks

The paper evaluates large reasoning models (LRMs) on everyday logical reasoning tasks, introducing a benchmark that captures linguistic and pragmatic reasoning phenomena. It compares LRMs with non-reasoning models under controlled prompting and finds that LRMs often perform worse on everyday reasoning, that some non-reasoning models with chain-of-thought prompting can outperform them, and that additional prompting instructions offer limited control over reasoning behavior. These results highlight that current reasoning models do not reliably capture everyday reasoning and suggest the need for better training objectives and broader evaluation.

By Kentaro Ozeki, Risako Ando, Takanobu Morishita, Hirohiko Abe, Koji Mineshima, Mitsuhiro Okada