The next generation of mobile networks is envisioned as fully AI-native, with AI-RAN architectures embedding small language models (SLMs) to perform reasoning over real-time telemetry. The state-of-th...
TelecomGPT‑R1‑9B is an open‑source large language model designed specifically for telecom reasoning tasks. It was trained on a 67,427‑example supervised fine‑tuning corpus that covers protocol, knowledge, modeling, and fault reasoning, and further refined with a two‑stage post‑training process involving low‑rank adaptation and policy optimization. The model tops the GSMA open telco leaderboard and matches state‑of‑the‑art closed‑source reasoners across seven public telecom benchmarks.
By Bohao Wang, Chenwei Wu, Haoyu Li, Hang Zou, Yu Tian, Lina Bariah, Li Wei, Chongwen Huang, Yongliang Shen, Zhaoyang Zhang, Merouane Debbah
TRACES (Tagging Reasoning Steps for Adaptive Cost‑Efficient Early‑Stopping) is a lightweight framework that tags reasoning steps of large‑language models in real time, enabling adaptive, cost‑efficient early stopping during inference. By monitoring the types of steps generated, the method identifies when models shift their reasoning after arriving at a correct answer, allowing for interpretable stopping criteria. Experiments on mathematical reasoning benchmarks (MATH500, GSM8K, AIME) and knowledge benchmarks (MMLU, GPQA) show token reductions of 20–50% while preserving accuracy, with more conservative thresholds needed for harder tasks such as BeyondAIME and IMO AnswerBench.
By Yannis Belkhiter, Seshu Tirupathi, Giulio Zizzo, John D. Kelleher
arXiv:2606. 26671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training alignment determines the reasoning and human preference following capabilities of large language models, yet most existing works withhold detailed data construction, filtering rules and training recipes, which hinders community reproducibility and lightweight model optimization.
By Qiaobo Hao, Yangqian Wu, Shunyi Wang, Zhongjian Zhang, Ziqun Li, Yayin He, Muqing Li, Chen Zhong
arXiv:2511. 08577v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Improving the reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), especially under parameter constraints, is crucial for real-world applications.
By Tianyu Fu, Yichen You, Zekai Chen, Guohao Dai, Huazhong Yang, Yu Wang
arXiv:2607. 20448v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce Domyn-Small, a 10-billion-parameter open-weight reasoning language model released under the MIT license.
By Simone Angarano, Francesco Bertolotti, Federico D'Ambrosio, Michele Resta, Alessandro Rognoni, Nicol\`o Ruggeri, Dario Salvati, Andrea Valenti, Alberto Veneri, Martin Cimmino
arXiv:2608.20359v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are deployed for increasingly complex tasks involving planning and multi-step decision making, but high-quality performanc...
By Ravisri Valluri, Tung Nguyen, Aditya Grover
arXiv:2606. 05402v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large reasoning models (LRMs) produce reasoning traces with non-linear structures, such as backtracking and self-correction, that complicate the evaluation and monitoring of the reasoning process.
By Jinu Lee, Shivam Agarwal, Amruta Parulekar, Siddarth Madala, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Julia Hockenmaier
arXiv:2511.08577v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Improving the reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), especially under parameter constraints, is crucial for real-world applicat...
By Tianyu Fu, Yichen You, Zekai Chen, Guohao Dai, Huazhong Yang, Yu Wang
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.
By Yannis Belkhiter, Seshu Tirupathi, Giulio Zizzo, John D. Kelleher
arXiv:2509. 21013v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Given the prohibitive cost of pre-training large language models, it is essential to leverage smaller proxy models to optimize datasets before scaling up.
By Woosung Koh, Juyoung Suk, Sungjun Han, Se-Young Yun, Jamin Shin
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in complex, compound AI systems where performance hinges on the quality of prompts. Recent state-of-the-art optimizers like GEPA (Genetic-Pareto) have argued that reflective instruction evolution can outperform traditional reinforcement learning and few-shot optimization.