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Reasoning Patterns for Efficient AI Coding: An Empirical Study

arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 28

TRACES: Tagging Reasoning Steps for Adaptive Cost-Efficient Early-Stopping

TRACES (Tagging Reasoning Steps for Adaptive Cost‑Efficient Early‑Stopping) is a lightweight framework that tags reasoning steps of large‑language models in real time, enabling adaptive, cost‑efficient early stopping during inference. By monitoring the types of steps generated, the method identifies when models shift their reasoning after arriving at a correct answer, allowing for interpretable stopping criteria. Experiments on mathematical reasoning benchmarks (MATH500, GSM8K, AIME) and knowledge benchmarks (MMLU, GPQA) show token reductions of 20–50% while preserving accuracy, with more conservative thresholds needed for harder tasks such as BeyondAIME and IMO AnswerBench.

By Yannis Belkhiter, Seshu Tirupathi, Giulio Zizzo, John D. Kelleher
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

Exploring Extrinsic and Intrinsic Properties for Effective Reasoning with Code Interpreter

arXiv:2606. 16934v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning with a Code Interpreter (CI) has emerged as an effective paradigm for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) through executable computation and iterative verification.

By Patomporn Payoungkhamdee, Napat Laosaengpha, Jenta Wonglertsakul, Pittawat Taveekitworachai, Pume Tuchinda, Panjapong Poobanchuen, Ekapol Chuangsuwanich, Can Udomcharoenchaikit, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Peerat Limkonchotiwat, Sarana Nutanong
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 22

Deep Reasoning in General Purpose Agents via Structured Meta-Cognition

arXiv:2605.11388v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Humans intuitively solve complex problems by flexibly shifting among reasoning modes: they plan, execute, revise intermediate goals, resolve ambigu...

By Dean Light, Michael Theologitis, Kshitish Ghate, Shuyue Stella Li, Benjamin Newman, Chirag Shah, Aylin Caliskan, Pang Wei Koh, Dan Suciu, Yulia Tsvetkov
arXiv AI
1d ago

Reasoning-Trace Overflow in Code Generation: An Empirical Study of Explicit Reasoning Models

The paper investigates how explicit reasoning in language models can lead to a "reasoning‑trace overflow," where the model spends most of its 32k‑token output budget on reasoning rather than producing code. Across seven models and six code benchmarks, overflow is rare on simple tasks but common on harder benchmarks, often due to repetitive reasoning loops. The study shows that disabling reasoning can sometimes be competitive, while prompt steering and budgeted transitions can mitigate overflow and improve token efficiency.

By Lukas Twist, Helen Yannakoudakis, Jie M. Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 31

Beyond Output Correctness: Benchmarking and Evaluating Large Language Model Reasoning in Coding Tasks

The paper introduces CodeRQ-Bench, the first benchmark for assessing large language model reasoning quality across coding tasks such as generation, summarization, and classification. It analyzes over a thousand mismatches from existing evaluators, identifies recurring limitations, and derives design insights that lead to a new two‑stage evaluator, VERA. Experiments show VERA outperforms strong baselines, improving AUCROC by up to 0.26 and AUPRC by up to 0.21 on four datasets.

By Yuangang Li, Justin Tian Jin Chen, Ethan Yu, David Hong, Iftekhar Ahmed
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Are Latent Reasoning Models Easily Interpretable?

arXiv:2604. 04902v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Latent reasoning models (LRMs) have attracted significant research interest due to their low inference cost (relative to explicit reasoning models) and theoretical ability to explore multiple reasoning paths in parallel.

By Connor Dilgren, Sarah Wiegreffe