arXiv:2511. 08577v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Improving the reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), especially under parameter constraints, is crucial for real-world applications.
By Tianyu Fu, Yichen You, Zekai Chen, Guohao Dai, Huazhong Yang, Yu Wang
arXiv:2603.21676v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Standard Transformers have a fixed computational depth, limiting their ability to generalize to tasks that require variable-depth reasoning....
By Hung-Hsuan Chen
arXiv:2606. 31779v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models typically reason via explicit chain-of-thought (CoT), generating intermediate steps token-by-token.
By Ying Fan, Anej Svete, Kangwook Lee
The paper introduces LLoCoT, a looped latent‑reasoning framework that replaces the traditional left‑to‑right generation of chain‑of‑thought tokens with iterative refinement of a compact latent workspace using a shared transformer. By jointly updating latent slots over a few iterations and sampling latent tokens in parallel, LLoCoT feeds these into an autoregressive decoder for answer generation. Experiments on HumanEval and MBPP show that LLoCoT matches or surpasses explicit‑CoT baselines while dramatically reducing reasoning latency and increasing throughput.
By Gerard Grau Garc\'ia, Arnau Padr\'es Masdemont, Niccol\`o Grillo, Jordi Ros-Giralt, Arash Behboodi, Victor Conchello Vendrell
arXiv:2609.15160v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Looped Transformers have recently demonstrated strong performance in both reasoning and language tasks by reusing a shared set of parameters across mul...
By Mingqian Yu, Wenpeng Zhang, Peilin Zhao
arXiv:2609.39967v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Recursive reasoning models apply a small shared Transformer block many times to refine a latent state. This gives them large effective depth with few...
By Yuliana Shakhvalieva, Dmitrii Kharchev, Viacheslav Bezrukov, Inessa Fedorova, Dmitry Bocharov, Ivan Oseledets, Valerii Ternovskii
T-LoopFormer introduces token-level elastic-depth looped transformers that allow each token to decide its own number of loop iterations based on its hidden state, improving token generation accuracy. It also adds a recursion-wise key‑value cache so tokens at different depths only attend to their corresponding cached states, speeding up autoregressive decoding. Experiments demonstrate strong performance on language modeling and zero‑shot reasoning, achieving the lowest decoding latency among comparable models.
By Mingqian Yu, Wenpeng Zhang, Shaobo Cui, Peilin Zhao
The State Stream Transformer (SST) V2 introduces a parameter‑efficient, FFN‑driven nonlinear recurrence that streams latent states horizontally across a sequence, enabling continuous latent deliberation at inference time. A two‑pass parallel training procedure approximates this recurrence, making co‑training practical. Experiments on GSM8K and GPQA‑Diamond show that SST achieves a 61.11% architectural capacity bound and a 15.15‑point improvement over a fine‑tuning‑matched baseline, while reducing GSM8K errors by 46%.
By Thea Aviss
arXiv:2607. 15178v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformer reasoning is limited by autoregressive decoding, which repeat edly compresses rich hidden computation through token space and makes it difficult for intermediate reasoning states to persist across time.
By Ziyang Cai, Xingyu Zhu, Yihe Dong, Yinghui He, Sanjeev Arora
arXiv:2606. 06574v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) perform inference by following a fixed depth and order, non-recurrent execution of all layers.
By Ziyue Li, Yang Li, Tianyi Zhou
arXiv:2606. 01080v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models often improve on difficult tasks by spending inference-time compute on a reasoning trace before producing the final answer.
By Dhruv Saini, Rohan Pandey
arXiv:2607. 25915v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Complex structured reasoning tasks often require additional computation, yet current language models obtain it mainly by increasing parameter scale or by serializing intermediate steps as chain-of-thought (CoT) tokens.
By Yutong Chen, Shouqian Shi, Xinran Liu, Haochen Wang, Jiaying Wang, Tianxing Xu, Yuanxi Wang, Zirui Ding