arXiv Computation and Language

REER-PT: Reverse-Engineered Reasoning for Perplexity-Guided Pre-training Data Augmentation

arXiv AI

Aug 25

Is Next-Chunk Reasoning RL Really Better than SFT? Revisiting Training Strategies under no-CoT Data

arXiv:2608.23256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent work proposes next-chunk reasoning RL for leveraging no-CoT data---corpora such as worked solutions and textbook derivations that contain reason...

By Yinhao Tang, Youqing Fang, Yanan Sun, Jiangning Liu, Ziyi Wang, Xun Zhao, Weiming Zhang, Bin Liu, Kuikun Liu, Wenwei Zhang, Kai Chen

reinforcement-learning fine-tuning

arXiv AI

Jun 15

Implicit Reasoning for Large Language Model-based Generative Recommendation

arXiv:2606. 14142v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly adopted as backbones for Generative Recommendation (GR), promising access to pretrained world knowledge.

By Yinhan He, Liam Collins, Bhuvesh Kumar, Jundong Li, Neil Shah, Donald Loveland

llms rag safety

arXiv Computation and Language

Aug 24

Self-Speculation for Faster Reasoning Models

arXiv:2608.20359v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are deployed for increasingly complex tasks involving planning and multi-step decision making, but high-quality performanc...

By Ravisri Valluri, Tung Nguyen, Aditya Grover

llms agents

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 17

Continual Self-Improvement with Lightweight Experiential Latent Memories

arXiv:2606. 17803v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models achieve strong reasoning performance by scaling inference-time compute, yet remain fundamentally stateless, discarding the rich, self-produced reasoning traces generated during this process.

By Vaggelis Dorovatas, Nancy Kalaj, Rahaf Aljundi

llms reinforcement-learning benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jul 2

Predicting LLM Reasoning Performance with Small Proxy Model

arXiv:2509. 21013v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Given the prohibitive cost of pre-training large language models, it is essential to leverage smaller proxy models to optimize datasets before scaling up.

By Woosung Koh, Juyoung Suk, Sungjun Han, Se-Young Yun, Jamin Shin

llms benchmarks safety

arXiv AI

Jun 29

DiARC: Distinguishing Positive and Negative Samples Helps Improving ARC-like Reasoning Ability of Large Language Models

arXiv:2606. 26530v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) contains tasks that require summarizing patterns from limited grid samples and predicting output grids.

By Yuxuan Yang, Feiyang Li, Yile Wang

llms fine-tuning benchmarks safety

arXiv AI

Jun 30

Reconsidering Overthinking: Penalizing Internal and External Redundancy in CoT Reasoning

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

reinforcement-learning

arXiv AI

Jul 23

LISA: Linear-Indexed Sparse Attention for Efficient Long-Context Reasoning

arXiv:2607. 19358v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in long chain-of-thought reasoning models such as DeepSeek-R1 have led to increasingly longer inference context lengths under the test-time scaling paradigm.

By Yu Zhao, Zekun Zhang, Fan Jiang, Bo Zeng, Linlong Xu, Shimin Shan, Yu Liu, Longyue Wang, Weihua Luo

efficiency benchmarks

arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 3

TELLER: Dual-Path Iterative Preference Optimization for Table Entity Linking

arXiv:2607. 28680v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Entity linking in tables matches short and ambiguous cell mentions to their corresponding knowledge-base entities.

By Yixin Peng, Kehao Li, Stefan Decker

fine-tuning safety

arXiv AI

Aug 12

Loop, Think, & Generalize: Implicit Reasoning in Recurrent-Depth Transformers

arXiv:2604. 07822v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study implicit reasoning, i.

By Harsh Kohli, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Huan Sun, Yuekun Yao

llms

arXiv AI

Jul 17

Stop Thinking, Start Looking: Efficient Post-Training for Multimodal Document Question Answering via Reasoning-Free Alignment

arXiv:2607. 14682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient multimodal document question answering with explicit visual grounding, locating the precise document region that supports each answer remains an open challenge.

By Harikrishnan P M, Goutham Vignesh, Ganesh Parab, Saisubramaniam Gopalakrishnan, Vishal Vaddina, Varun V, Rohit Agrawal

nlp reinforcement-learning fine-tuning multimodal benchmarks safety

arXiv AI

Jun 26

\textsc{DiARC}: Distinguishing Positive and Negative Samples Helps Improving ARC-like Reasoning Ability of Large Language Models

arXiv:2606. 26530v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC;~\citealp{chollet2019measure}) contains tasks that require summarizing patterns from limited grid samples and predicting output grids.

By Yuxuan Yang, Feiyang Li, Yile Wang

llms fine-tuning benchmarks safety

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