Understanding and reasoning over long contexts has become a key requirement for deploying large language models (LLMs) in realistic applications. Although recent LLMs support increasingly long context windows, they often fail to use relevant evidence that is already present in the input, revealing a gap between context access and effective context utilization.
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:2607. 02509v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding and reasoning over long contexts has become a key requirement for deploying large language models (LLMs) in realistic applications.
By Yanjun Zhao, Ruizhong Qiu, Tianxin Wei, Yuanchen Bei, Zhining Liu, Lingjie Chen, Ismini Lourentzou, Hanghang Tong, Jingrui He
arXiv:2607. 10562v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating the multi-hop reasoning capabilities of large language models remains a significant challenge.
By JungMin Yun, JuneHyoung Kwon, YoungBin Kim
arXiv:2608. 10676v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model (LLM)-based search agents answer questions through multi-step interactions with external environments.
By Aijun Yang, Qianxue Guo, Ziyi Huang, Yuxuan Chen, Shiyou Qian, Jian Cao
Large language model (LLM)-based search agents answer questions through multi-step interactions with external environments. However, providing complete execution trajectories to the LLM causes unbounded context growth and introduces noise.
arXiv:2608. 05124v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long context reasoning in large language models (LLMs) is usually constrained by the fact that a single inference trajectory has to simultaneously explore the context, store intermediate state, verify evidence, and produce the final answer.
By Purbesh Mitra, Sennur Ulukus
arXiv:2608. 03292v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long Document Visual Question Answering (LongDocVQA) requires Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to locate, integrate, and reason over heterogeneous document elements distributed across multiple pages.
By Le Xiang, Zhicheng Guan, Hong Chen, Xiaocong Lin, Zhenghua Lei, Teng Hu, Bolei He, Long Zeng
arXiv:2603. 27435v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being used to generate comprehensive, knowledge-intensive reports.
By Xinran Zhao, Aakanksha Naik, Jay DeYoung, Joseph Chee Chang, Jena D. Hwang, Tongshuang Wu, Varsha Kishore
arXiv:2608. 03048v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context reasoning remains a critical bottleneck for large language models, as recent recurrent-memory approaches face two inherent challenges: sequential chunk-wise updates can overwrite early critical evidence with later irrelevant content, and serial inter-chunk dependencies limit parallelism and cause latency to increase with context length.
By Dawei Liu, Haixu Song, Shuang Cheng, Shijie Wang, Haozheng Hou, Kaifeng Liu, Ermo Hua, Zhonghang Yuan, Zhijie Zhong, Yuchen Fan, Biqing Qi, Bowen Zhou
arXiv:2504. 07385v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As Large Language Models (LLMs) become increasingly used for question-answering (QA), relying on static, pre-annotated references for evaluation poses significant challenges in cost, scalability, and completeness.
By Sher Badshah, Ali Emami, Hassan Sajjad
arXiv:2607. 09328v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Answering complex questions over long documents frequently requires integrating evidence that the source itself disperses naturally across distant passages.
By Zixin Chen, Peng Liu, Haobo Li, Rui Sheng, Jianhong Tu, Xiaodong Deng, Fei Huang, Kashun Shum, Dayiheng Liu, Huamin Qu