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: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.
By Vaibhav Singh, Soumya Suvra Ghosal, Sarvesh Gharat, Soumyabrata Pal, Ramasuri Narayanam, Dinesh Manocha
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
Scaling inference-time computation has emerged as a reliable method to improve the performance of large language models on complex reasoning and programming tasks. However, standard approaches such as independent sampling and sequential multi-turn refinement operate without token-level credit assignment, resulting in computational inefficiency, since valid reasoning prefixes are frequently discarded.
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:2607. 01077v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While inference-time scaling has improved the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs), the need to generate long chains-of-thought (CoTs) is a computational bottleneck.
By Xuecheng Liu, Daman Arora, Gokul Swamy, Andrea Zanette
arXiv:2608. 04001v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models can solve substantially harder reasoning problems with more inference-time compute.
By Mohsen Hariri, Weicong Chen, Nahal Shahini, Vikash Singh, Kai Ye, Amirhossein Samandar, Debargha Ganguly, Sreehari Sankar, Yanyan Zhang, Shouren Wang, Jerry Peng, Biyao Zhang, Michael Hinczewski, Vipin Chaudhary
arXiv:2607. 21453v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scaling inference-time computation has emerged as a reliable method to improve the performance of large language models on complex reasoning and programming tasks.
By Rajiv Shailesh Chitale, Rahul Madhavan, Taneesh Gupta, Deepanway Ghosal, Aravindan Raghuveer
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:2603. 03417v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Parallel test-time scaling, which generates multiple candidate solutions for a single problem, is a powerful technique for improving large language model performance.
By Yegon Kim, Seungyoo Lee, Chaeyun Jang, Hyungi Lee, Juho Lee
arXiv:2510. 22228v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Layer pruning has emerged as a widely adopted technique for improving the efficiency of large language models (LLMs).
By Keyu Wang, Tian Lyu, Guinan Su, Lu Yin, Marco Canini, Jonas Geiping, Shiwei Liu
arXiv:2601. 03093v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent work on activation and latent steering has demonstrated that modifying internal representations can effectively guide large language models (LLMs) toward improved reasoning and efficiency without updating model parameters.
By Tuc Nguyen, Thai Le