arXiv AI

ThinkRetrieve: Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning Traces for Test-Time Scaling

arXiv:2608. 10928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) improve performance by allocating additional inference-time compute to generate extended chain-of-thought reasoning.

arXiv AI
Jun 15

Fractured Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

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 AI
Jun 8

ThinkBooster: A Unified Framework for Seamless Test-Time Scaling of LLM Reasoning

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 Machine Learning
Sep 23

Ladders of Thought: A Self-Evolving Curriculum of Progressively Simplified Reasoning Traces

Ladders-of-Thought (LoT) is a framework that enhances reasoning in small- to mid-scale large language models by automatically generating easier variants of reasoning problems and organizing them into difficulty buckets. It uses a self‑evolving bandit scheduler to adaptively allocate training, improving performance across math and multi‑hop reasoning tasks on 1–8 B models. LoT achieves significant gains (e.g., +32 pp on AddSub, +16 pp on QASC) and converges faster than staged curricula.

By Minghui Liu, Thomas Magelinski, Dehao Yuan, Qi Yu, Furong Huang
arXiv AI
Jun 9

MixReasoning: Switching Modes to Think

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 AI
Aug 7

Refining Over Resampling: Test-Time Self-Correction for LLM Reasoning

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