arXiv:2606. 19354v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Test-time scaling (TTS) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for improving the reasoning performance of large language models (LLMs) by investing additional compute at inference time.
By Ardit Krasniqi, Luan Vejsiu, Elira Dervishi
arXiv:2606. 01682v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Selecting the best response from multiple small-model samples using a stronger scorer is a simple inference-time strategy, but fails when the small model has already committed to incorrect reasoning paths.
By Atoosa Chegini, Soheil Feizi
Selecting the best response from multiple small-model samples using a stronger scorer is a simple inference-time strategy, but fails when the small model has already committed to incorrect reasoning paths. PRM guided search avoids this by scoring candidate continuations during generation, but requires a reward model trained with step-level labels.
arXiv:2607.28077v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) improves the reasoning capabilities of large language models, but prompt groups with identica...
By Shuang Liang, Haoyang Zhou, Yifan Gong, Guowei Wang, Xiting Wang
arXiv:2608. 09898v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Test-time scaling often uses an external verifier, such as compilers and test cases in coding or trained value functions in robotics applications, to obtain high-quality rollouts.
By Lecheng Kong, Like Hui, Haitao Mao, Jun Huan
Test-time scaling often uses an external verifier, such as compilers and test cases in coding or trained value functions in robotics applications, to obtain high-quality rollouts. Verifier-free test-time scaling (or VF-TTS) is gaining extensive attention as a mechanism to enhance Large Language Model (LLM) reasoning, primarily because we do not have access to such high-quality verifiers in many real-world applications.
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) improves the reasoning capabilities of large language models, but prompt groups with identical rollout rewards consume generation budget without effective learning signals. Pre-rollout prompt selection can reduce this waste by screening prompts before rollout generation.
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:2605. 17609v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many inference-time language-model pipelines combine a cheap reward signal with an expensive verifier, such as exact answer checking in mathematical reasoning or hidden-test execution in code generation.
By Shaddin Dughmi, Mahdi Haghifam, Yusuf Hakan Kalayci
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. 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:2605. 25143v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Test-time scaling improves language model reasoning by spending additional compute to explore multiple solution trajectories.
By Dao Tran, Duc Anh Le, Ngoc Luu, Quan Pham, Tung Pham, Hung Bui