arXiv:2606. 15686v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models often appear strong on symbolic and algorithmic tasks, yet this apparent strength can hide brittle behaviour when problems become longer, harder, or slightly out of distribution.
By Gowrav Mannem, Chowdhury Marzia Mahjabin, Jason Chen, Shivank Garg, Kevin Zhu
Tiny Recursive Message Passing applies recursive transformers and deep supervision to message passing neural networks, achieving high efficiency. The approach yields about 99% test accuracy on Sudoku-Extreme with only 16k parameters, training quickly on modern GPUs or CPUs. It also demonstrates zero‑shot transfer to larger problem instances, outperforming popular neural baselines on N‑queens and Boolean satisfiability with fewer parameters.
By Tommaso Salvatori, Matteo Forasassi, Alexis Toumi, Giovanni de Felice
arXiv:2607. 19635v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural solvers are built to deduce, branch, and revise intermediate states.
By Aleksey Komissarov
Neural solvers are built to deduce, branch, and revise intermediate states. The Lattice Deduction Transformer (LDT) appears to do exactly that.
The paper investigates how to allocate test‑time computation in recursive reasoning models, specifically the Tiny Recursive Model (TRM). Experiments show that resampling the answer state (y) is more effective than perturbing the reasoning state (z) for recovering failures, especially as compute budgets increase. The proposed Gated Answer Resampling (GAR) method, which restarts only rejected puzzles, boosts TRM performance from 85.9% to 99.4% on Sudoku‑Extreme and from 68.8% to 85.6% on the Pencil Puzzle Bench, outperforming the probabilistic variant that uses far more compute.
By Maxime Illouz
arXiv:2606. 29150v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Discrete flow models have recently shown promising performance on few-step text generation; however, when naively applied to structured reasoning tasks such as Sudoku and Zebra puzzles, they converge confidently to incorrect answers (solving only $\sim$36% of Sudoku puzzles).
By Alec Helbling, Andrey Bryutkin, Mauro Martino, Nima Dehmamy, Hendrik Strobelt
arXiv:2606. 00739v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models hallucinate even when the answer lies within their parameters.
By Yun-Chen Cheng, Che-Yu Lin, Cheng-Lin Yang
The paper proposes InfiLoop, a loop-native residual connection designed for looped Transformers to prevent performance degradation as iterations increase. InfiLoop learns which past computations to retain and how much to accept from each new update, using content-based weighting and learned temporal decay to maintain a running summary of recurrent states. The approach yields strong results on reasoning tasks, achieving 97.9% exact accuracy on Sudoku-Extreme and 13.6% pass@2 on ARC-AGI-2, and continues to improve with over 20,000 test-time iterations.
arXiv:2608. 15958v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deciding whether a Sokoban puzzle is solvable is PSPACE-complete (Culberson, 1997): solutions can be exponentially long and there is no short certificate to check.
By Sina Baghal
The paper introduces InfiLoop, a loop-native residual connection designed for looped Transformers to prevent performance degradation as iterations increase. InfiLoop learns which past computations to retain and how much to accept from each new update, combining content-based weighting with learned temporal decay to maintain a running summary of recurrent states. Across extensive reasoning tasks, a 7M-parameter InfiLoop model outperforms existing recursive architectures, achieving 97.9% exact accuracy on Sudoku-Extreme and 13.6% pass@2 on ARC-AGI-2, and continues to improve with test-time looping beyond 20,000 effective steps.
By Pengxiang Li, Dilxat Muhtar, Di He, Guinan Su, Lu Yin, Shiwei Liu
arXiv:2609.37066v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Post-training is central to mathematical reasoning in modern large language models (LLMs), but endpoint pass@1 alone underidentifies what has changed...
By Hongyang Li, Yiming Zhu, Xiao Li, Caesar Wu, Said Mammar, Pascal Bouvry
Flow Reasoning Models (FRMs) are a new framework that turns continuous flow models into efficient recurrent reasoners for structured tasks. By self‑conditioning a flow model on its own past outputs, FRMs iteratively refine solutions, allowing parallel decision making and revision. The authors introduce Fixed‑Point Forcing (FPF) to mitigate exposure bias at deeper recursion, and report near‑perfect solve rates on Sudoku‑Extreme, Zebra, and Maze‑Unique, outperforming existing masked‑diffusion and specialized baselines while using far fewer inference FLOPs.
By Alec Helbling, Andrey Bryutkin, Mauro Martino, Duen Horng Chau, Nima Dehmamy, Hendrik Strobelt