arXiv:2504. 03635v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reasoning is a core capability of language models (LMs), yet it remains unclear how much model capacity is necessary to support reasoning during pretraining.
By Xinyi Wang, Shawn Tan, Shenbo Xu, Mingyu Jin, William Yang Wang, Rameswar Panda, Yikang Shen
The paper introduces collaborative learning for large language models, where a single large model is replaced by smaller, heterogeneous models—called model slices—under a comparable parameter budget. By enabling prior reasoning to be reassessed across different model parameterizations and employing pyramid supervision that blends protocol distillation with step‑level supervision, the authors refine reasoning and interaction decisions during collaboration. Experiments on multi‑hop question answering, mathematical reasoning, code generation, and open‑ended constrained generation show that the trained heterogeneous models match or surpass the performance of the original large model and established multi‑agent baselines, while also achieving higher inference efficiency and exhibiting task‑specific collaboration patterns.
By Yuheng Wang, Runde Yang, Zhuohan Bao, Qiran Zhang, Huatao Li, Yiyang Zheng, Lin Wu, Jingru Fan, Shu Yao, Yihan Li, Zhi Li, Chen Qian
arXiv:2604. 07822v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study implicit reasoning, i.
By Harsh Kohli, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Huan Sun, Yuekun Yao
The paper introduces VAKE, a two‑stage reinforcement‑learning framework that activates latent factual knowledge in large language models. In the Priming stage, the model explicitly inserts bridging triples into an insufficient subgraph, guided by rewards from a frozen model’s answers. The Reasoning stage then trains the model to answer from the original input, demonstrating that the elicitation capability transfers to implicit reasoning and consistently outperforms baselines across multiple benchmarks and model sizes.
By Zuocheng Ying, Yang Yang, Yumou Wu, Chuanbo Zhu, Jiarui Wang, Ziqi Wu, Jingming Cai, Junqing Yu, Zikai Song
arXiv:2610.08388v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in question answering, yet they still frequently suffer from hallucinations on kno...
By Yang Hong, Yajun Yang, Xin Wang, Liping Jing, Qinghua Hu
arXiv:2608.29263v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) often suffer from hallucination and struggle with complex reasoning tasks requiring multi-hop domain knowledge. While inte...
By Yuwei Lou, Hao Hu, Yuzhou Jiang, Zongfei Zhang, Liang Wang, Jincai Liu, Jidong Ge, Xianping Tao
KGFR introduces a Knowledge Graph Foundation Retriever that collaborates with large language models to enhance knowledge‑intensive question answering. By encoding relations with LLM‑generated descriptions and initializing entities from question roles, KGFR enables zero‑shot generalization to unseen knowledge graphs. Its Asymmetric Progressive Propagation technique efficiently handles large graphs, while a controllable reasoning loop allows the LLM to request candidate answers, supporting facts, and reasoning paths.
By Yuanning Cui, Zequn Sun, Wei Hu, Zhangjie Fu
Large Language Models fail at implicit multi-hop reasoning: a model answers "When was $X$ born? " and "Who is $Y$'s closest friend?
arXiv:2606. 14047v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context language modeling requires not only extending context windows but maintaining coherent understanding of entity states and relationships across thousands of tokens -- a challenge that semantic similarity alone cannot address.
By Ghadir Alselwi, Basem Suleiman, Hao Xue, Shoaib Jameel, Hakim Hacid, Flora D. Salim, Imran Razzak
arXiv:2609.26610v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Despite their outstanding performance on many NLP tasks, LLMs face serious challenges related to semantic abstraction. In this study, we are interested...
By David Torres-Moreno, Jorge Hermosillo-Valadez
arXiv:2607. 19345v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models that generate step-by-step reasoning traces have achieved strong performance on complex tasks, and extending them to long-context settings has emerged as an important frontier.
By Lizhe Fang, Weizhou Shen, Tianyi Tang, Yisen Wang
arXiv:2608. 12218v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly trained and deployed with long contexts that span documents, code repositories, and interaction histories.
By Arda Uzunoglu, Benjamin van Durme, Daniel Khashabi