arXiv:2505. 12992v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Inference-time scaling techniques have significantly bolstered the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by harnessing additional computational effort at inference without retraining.
By Baohao Liao, Hanze Dong, Yuhui Xu, Doyen Sahoo, Christof Monz, Junnan Li, Caiming Xiong
arXiv:2601. 20379v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) struggle with complex, long-horizon reasoning due to instability caused by their frozen policy assumption.
By Zhengbo Jiao, Hongyu Xian, Qinglong Wang, Yunpu Ma, Zhebo Wang, Zifan Zhang, Dezhang Kong, Meng Han
arXiv:2606. 06915v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Test-time compute (TTC) scaling has emerged as a powerful paradigm for improving large language model (LLM) reasoning by allocating additional compute during inference, e.
By Vladislav Smirnov (MBZUAI), Chieu Nguyen (MBZUAI), Sergey Senichev (Independent Researcher), Minh Ngoc Ta (MBZUAI), Ekaterina Fadeeva (ETH Z\"urich), Artem Vazhentsev (MBZUAI), Daria Galimzianova (MBZUAI), Nikolai Rozanov (MBZUAI, Imperial College London), Viktor Mazanov (Innopolis University), Jingwei Ni (ETH Z\"urich), Tianyi Wu (NUS), Igor Kiselev (Accenture), Mrinmaya Sachan (ETH Z\"urich), Iryna Gurevych (MBZUAI), Preslav Nakov (MBZUAI), Timothy Baldwin (MBZUAI), Artem Shelmanov (MBZUAI)
arXiv:2608. 15065v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Reasoning Models produce diverse, sometimes inconsistent answers across repeated queries on the same problem, so multi-sample inference is a prerequisite for reliable deployment.
By Chanhee Park, Sungbin Han, Jeongho Yoon, Seongtae Hong, Heuiseok Lim
arXiv:2607. 10386v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) excel at generating long chains of thought, but long reasoning traces are often verbose and memory-inefficient.
By Zain Sarwar, Supriyo Chakraborty, Berkcan Kapusuzoglu, Chia-Hsuan Lee, Anirban Das, Stephen Rawls, Kartik Balasubramaniam, Sambit Sahu
arXiv:2601. 18383v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) excel at solving complex problems by explicitly generating a reasoning trace before deriving the final answer.
By Zhenyuan Guo, Tong Chen, Wenlong Meng, Chen Gong, Xin Yu, Chengkun Wei, Wenzhi Chen
arXiv:2606. 01080v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models often improve on difficult tasks by spending inference-time compute on a reasoning trace before producing the final answer.
By Dhruv Saini, Rohan Pandey
arXiv:2509. 04027v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Test-time scaling, primarily manifested through multi-step Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning via Reinforcement Learning (RL), has emerged as a pivotal paradigm for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs).
By Zeyu Gan, Hao Yi, Yong Liu
arXiv:2510. 06052v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reasoning models enhance performance by tackling problems in a step-by-step manner, decomposing them into sub-problems and exploring long chains of thought before producing an answer.
By Haiquan Lu, Gongfan Fang, Xinyin Ma, Qi Li, Xinchao Wang
arXiv:2608. 05643v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Test-time scaling improves LLM reasoning by using additional inference compute, but wider sampling alone can suffer from diminishing returns: new rollouts often repeat existing answer patterns instead of adding useful reasoning diversity.
By Ahsan Bilal, Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin, Muhammad Umer, Lena Trigg, Ali Subhan, Muhammad Ali, Dean F. Hougen
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:2606. 13603v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning is the dominant paradigm for inference-time scaling in language models, yet the causal influence of individual steps on the final answer poorly understood.
By Daniel Scalena, Sara Candussio, Luca Bortolussi, Elisabetta Fersini, Malvina Nissim, Gabriele Sarti