arXiv AI

How Transformers Learn to Plan via Multi-Token Prediction

arXiv:2604. 11912v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While next-token prediction (NTP) has been the standard objective for training language models, it often struggles to capture global structure in reasoning tasks.

arXiv AI
Jun 15

SuperThoughts: Reasoning Tokens in Superposition

arXiv:2606. 13862v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning improves LLM problem-solving but is computationally expensive due to sequential token generation.

By Zheyang Xiong, Shivam Garg, Max Yu, Vaishnavi Shrivastava, Haoyu Zhao, Anastasios Kyrillidis, Dimitris Papailiopoulos
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 16

Pushing the Boundaries of Natural Reasoning: Interleaved Bonus from Formal-Logic Verification

arXiv:2601. 22642v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) show remarkable capabilities, yet their stochastic next-token prediction creates logical inconsistencies and reward hacking that formal symbolic systems avoid.

By Chuxue Cao, Jinluan Yang, Haoran Li, Kunhao Pan, Zijian Zhao, Zhengyu Chen, Yuchen Tian, Lijun Wu, Conghui He, Sirui Han, Yike Guo
arXiv AI
6d ago

T-LoopFormer: Token-Level Elastic-Depth Looped Transformers for Latent Reasoning with Dynamic Routing

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
arXiv AI
Jul 29

Penelope: Localized Latent Recurrence for Efficient Structured Reasoning

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