arXiv AI
Jun 11
Forecasting Future Behavior as a Learning Task
arXiv:2606. 11445v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Trust in an AI system is often anchored by explanations of how it works, which one then uses to forecast its behavior on new inputs.
Predicting Future Behaviors in Reasoning Models Enables Better Steering
arXiv:2606. 11172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deployed large reasoning models (LRMs) often behave unexpectedly.
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arXiv AI
Jul 17
Step-Tagging: Toward controlling the generation of Language Reasoning Models through step monitoring
arXiv:2512. 14332v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The field of Language Reasoning Models (LRMs) has been very active over the past few years with advances in training and inference techniques enabling LRMs to reason longer, and more accurately.
arXiv AI
Sep 1
Stop Before You Fail: Operational Capability Boundaries for Mitigating Unproductive Reasoning in Large Reasoning Models
arXiv:2509.24711v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current answering paradigms for Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) often fail to account for the fact that some questions may lie beyond the model's ope...
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9
ATLAS: Verifier-Guided Adaptive Latent Activation Steering for Efficient LLM Reasoning
arXiv:2601. 03093v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent work on activation and latent steering has demonstrated that modifying internal representations can effectively guide large language models (LLMs) toward improved reasoning and efficiency without updating model parameters.
arXiv AI
3d ago
Alleviating Hallucination in Reasoning Tasks with Training-Free Uncertainty-Guided Steering
arXiv:2609.38962v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work on hallucination detection in large language models has shown that, for a fixed pre-trained model and reasoning task, it is possible to est...
arXiv AI
Sep 1
Triggering Chain-of-Thought via Latent Feature Interventions in Large Language Models
arXiv:2601.08058v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting often improves the reasoning performance of large language models (LLMs), but the internal signal that trigg...
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 1
Learning to Reason and Use Tools through Unsupervised Fine-Tuning in Task-Oriented Dialog Systems
arXiv:2608.30426v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current dialogue systems struggle with dynamic information retrieval, often leading to hallucinations and lower response accuracy. We address this by a...
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16
Pushing the Boundaries of Natural Reasoning: Interleaved Bonus from Formal-Logic Verification
arXiv:2601. 22642v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) show remarkable capabilities, yet their stochastic next-token prediction creates logical inconsistencies and reward hacking that formal symbolic systems avoid.
arXiv AI
Jul 21
Can We Break LLMs Out of Self-Loops? Fine-Grained Reasoning Control with Activation Steering
arXiv:2607. 18100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Extended reasoning has become standard for frontier Large Language Models (LLMs), yet the trajectories these models produce remain largely uncontrollable.
arXiv AI
6d ago
Learning to Stop without Learning to Stop: Self-Supervised Confidence Training Improves Reasoning Efficiency
The paper demonstrates that fine‑tuning reasoning models to predict their own confidence at intermediate steps—using only 600 self‑supervised examples—substantially improves inference efficiency. Without adding any explicit stopping or length penalties, the models generate up to 25 % fewer tokens while maintaining accuracy on mathematical, scientific, and coding benchmarks across several architectures. The study finds that confidence supervision preserves the models’ high‑level reasoning structure rather than merely suppressing specific behaviors.
arXiv AI
Jul 24
Post-Hoc Reasoning in Chain of Thought: Decoding and Steering Pre-Committed Answers
arXiv:2603. 01437v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As chain of thought (CoT) has become central to scaling reasoning capabilities in large language models (LLMs), it has also emerged as a promising tool for interpretability, suggesting the opportunity to understand model decisions through verbalized reasoning.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11
Rethinking Reasoning with MDLMs: Early Exits, Post-hoc Reasoning, and Beyond
arXiv:2510. 19990v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The reasoning paradigm, where language models reason before answering, has enabled breakthroughs on tasks such as mathematical problem-solving.