Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) rely on long reasoning traces, making inference expensive. While low-bit quantization reduces per-token decoding cost, we show that aggressive 2-bit inference can fail to deliver end-to-end speedup because instability in the generation process inflates total token count.
arXiv:2606. 15682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) achieve strong problem-solving through long chain-of-thought, but their deployment is constrained by the high cost of full-precision inference and growing KV cache footprints.
By Janghwan Lee, Sihwa Lee, Jinseok Kim, Yongjik Kim, Jieun Lim, Jinwook Oh, Jungwook Choi
arXiv:2606. 25519v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Quantization is widely used to reduce the inference cost of large language models, but its effect on reasoning models is not fully captured by final-answer accuracy or per-token latency.
By Xinyu Lian, Walid Krichene, Beichen Huang, Masahiro Tanaka, Olatunji Ruwase, Li Zhang, Minjia Zhang
arXiv:2606. 00206v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training quantization (PTQ) is widely used to deploy large language models efficiently, but its effect on reasoning models is not well understood.
By Sanae Lotfi, Polina Kirichenko, Steven Li, Zechun Liu
arXiv:2606. 26488v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recursive reasoning models can solve complex structured tasks with only a few million parameters by repeatedly updating a latent state.
By Pearse Jim, Steven Kolawole, Opegbemi Matthias Busoye, Glory Bagai, Virginia Smith
arXiv:2608. 15797v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: KV-cache eviction caps the memory cost of long reasoning traces but is inherently lossy because the model decodes from a partial view of its history.
By Minsoo Cheong, Woosang Lim, Vincent-Daniel Yun, Sungjoo Yoo
arXiv:2606. 13233v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large reasoning models (LRMs) improve complex problem-solving by generating long intermediate reasoning traces, but this substantially increases inference costs.
By Sihwa Lee, Janghwan Lee, Donghoon Yoo, Jae Gon Kim, Hanyul Ryu, Soojung Ryu, Jungwook Choi
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.
By Sheldon Yu, Tong Yu, Xunyi Jiang, Rohan Surana, Gagan Mundada, Sungchul Kim, Lina Yao, Julian McAuley, Junda Wu
Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) excel on complex tasks through long chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, but their lengthy intermediate steps cause severe overthinking that inflates inference cost. KV-cache compression is a common solution, yet existing reasoning-oriented methods apply a uniform policy across the trajectory and judge compression only by what it removes from the cache.
arXiv:2504. 12329v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances leverage post-training to enhance model reasoning performance, which typically requires costly training pipelines and still suffers from inefficient, overly lengthy outputs.
By Wang Yang, Xiang Yue, Vipin Chaudhary, Xiaotian Han
arXiv:2608. 08020v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time compute scaling is a primary driver of performance in large reasoning models (LRMs), but extreme inefficiency bounds current approaches, shifting the critical question from \emph{how much} compute to spend, to \emph{where} to allocate it.
By Lijie Yang, Hongyin Luo, Tri Dao, Ravi Netravali
arXiv:2608. 04771v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) excel on complex tasks through long chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, but their lengthy intermediate steps cause severe overthinking that inflates inference cost.
By Qiyuan Zhu, Dezhi Li, Pengyu Cheng, Tianle Chen, Jiacheng Wang, Ruijie Shen, Hao Gu, Sida Lin, Zirui Liu, Jiacheng Liu, Sirui Han