arXiv:2602. 06960v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large reasoning models achieve strong performance by scaling inference-time chain-of-thought, but this paradigm suffers from quadratic cost, context length limits, and degraded reasoning due to lost-in-the-middle effects.
By Yuchen Yan, Liang Jiang, Jin Jiang, Shuaicheng Li, Zujie Wen, Zhiqiang Zhang, Jun Zhou, Jian Shao, Yueting Zhuang, Yongliang Shen
arXiv:2607. 28642v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long chain-of-thought reasoning improves performance on complex problems, but it also introduces redundancy accumulation, context overflow, and error anchoring.
By Fei Ding, Yongkang Zhang, Runhao Liu, Yuhao Liao, Zijian Zeng
arXiv:2607. 06987v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become the standard paradigm for enhancing the complex reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs).
By Chongyu Fan, Pengfei Liu, Jingjia Huang, Sijia Liu, Yi Lin
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:2606. 03965v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models improve final-answer accuracy through extended chain-of-thought reasoning, but often spend tokens inefficiently and offer little inference-time control.
By Yu Xia, Zhouhang Xie, Xin Xu, Byungkyu Kang, Prarit Lamba, Xiang Gao, Julian McAuley
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:2606. 01281v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs).
By Yixiu Mao, Yun Qu, Qi Wang, Heming Zou, Xiangyang Ji
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:2606. 17687v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite remarkable performance on complex tasks, Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) often generate excessively long Chain-of-Thoughts (CoT), inflating computational costs even for simple queries.
By Jiahao Wang, Bingyu Liang, Chenhao Hu, Longhui Zhang, Xuebo Liu, Min zhang, Jing Li, Xuelong Li
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:2607. 19962v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) often suffer from overthinking due to redundant verification steps.
By Xinbang Dai, Zheyu Xin, Huikang Hu, Lin Ren, Rihui Jin, Guohui Xiao, Guilin Qi, Kuicai Dong, Zhaocheng Du, Yuyang Zhang
arXiv:2505. 24273v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) suggest that reinforcement learning (RL) effectively internalizes search strategies, yielding significant improvements on challenging reasoning tasks through extended chains of thought.
By Hongyi James Cai, Junlin Wang, Xiaoyin Chen, Bhuwan Dhingra