arXiv:2602. 08324v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning successfully enhances the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet it incurs substantial computational overhead for inference.
By Yuntian Tang, Bohan Jia, Wenxuan Huang, Lianyue Zhang, Jiao Xie, Wenxi Li, Wei Li, Jie Hu, Xinghao Chen Rongrong Ji, Shaohui Lin
Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in complex reasoning tasks through Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting. However, these models often exhibit "computational overthinking," generating redundant reasoning steps that increase latency and cost without improving accuracy.
arXiv:2607. 11089v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in complex reasoning tasks through Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting.
By Mohammed Ehab, Aymane El Gadarri, Vivek F. Farias, Adam Jozefiak, Ciamac C. Moallemi
arXiv:2508. 10123v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Advanced reasoning in LLMs on challenging domains like mathematical reasoning can be tackled using verifiable rewards based reinforced fine-tuning (ReFT).
By Maxime Heuillet, Yufei Cui, Boxing Chen, Audrey Durand, Prasanna Parthasarathi
arXiv:2608. 12331v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning language models generate lengthy chain-of-thought (CoT) sequences whose key-value (KV) cache grows linearly and becomes a memory bottleneck during decoding.
By Yang Liu, Bin Chong, Chongyang Zhang, Hao Zheng, Jiayu Liang, Xu Kefu
arXiv:2602. 01997v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent work has shown that layer pruning can effectively compress large language models (LLMs) while retaining strong performance on classification benchmarks, often with little or no finetuning.
By Safal Shrestha, Anubhav Shrestha, Minwu Kim, Aadim Nepal, Keith Ross
arXiv:2510. 08647v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent developments have enabled advanced reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs) via long Chain-of-Thought (CoT), trading efficiency during inference for performance.
By Chengzhengxu Li, Xiaoming Liu, Zhaohan Zhang, Shengchao Liu, Guoxin Ma, Yu Lan, Cong Wang, Chao Shen
arXiv:2508. 02178v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large reasoning models (LRMs) often exhibit overthinking, producing verbose Chain-of-Thought (CoT) traces that increase inference cost and obscure the underlying reasoning process.
By Taihang Zhen, Jialiang Hong, Kai Chen, Guang Yang, Junlan Feng, Wenpeng Zhu, Jing Huo, Yang Gao, Depeng Wang, Haitao Wan, Xi Yang, Fanyu Meng, Yuyao Zhang, Ji Qi, Xiangyu Zhou
arXiv:2603. 08000v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large reasoning models (LRMs) like OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek-R1 achieve high accuracy on complex tasks by adopting long chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning paths.
By Chenzhi Hu, Qinzhe Hu, Yuhang Xu, Junyi Chen, Ruijie Wang, Shengzhong Liu, Jianxin Li, Fan Wu, Guihai Chen
arXiv:2603. 25184v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become essential for post-training large language models (LLMs) in reasoning tasks.
By Jiahao Wu, Ning Lu, Shengcai Liu, Kun Wang, Yanting Yang, Bailong Lin, Chen Jason Zhang, Li Qing, Ke Tang
arXiv:2602. 13940v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Tokenization is a hardcoded compression step which remains in the training pipeline of Large Language Models (LLMs), despite a general trend towards architectures becoming increasingly end-to-end.
By Sam Dauncey, Roger Wattenhofer
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