arXiv Computation and Language

RetroThinker: Enabling Retrospective Thinking in Speech LLMs

RetroThinker is a multi-stage post‑training framework that enhances SpeechLLMs by enabling them to self‑verify and forward‑correct Chain‑of‑Thought reasoning steps during inference. It combines supervised fine‑tuning on curated retrospective thinking data with length‑based direct preference optimization to improve reasoning while the user speaks. On the GSM8K benchmark, RetroThinker achieves an 11% absolute accuracy gain over non‑retrospective baselines while maintaining comparable latency.

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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 22

Efficient Chain-of-Modality Reasoning via Progressive Compression for Spoken Language Models

Spoken language models (SLMs) enable natural human-computer interaction, but their reasoning ability still lags behind that of text-based large language models, especially on spoken mathematical question answering tasks. One important reason is that SLMs reason over purely verbalized mathematical expressions, which are harder to interpret than symbolic text.

arXiv AI
Jul 3

ThreadWeaver: Adaptive Threading for Efficient Parallel Reasoning in Language Models

arXiv:2512. 07843v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scaling inference-time computation has enabled Large Language Models (LLMs) to achieve strong reasoning performance, but their inherently sequential decoding incurs substantial latency, motivating parallelization of the generation process.

By Long Lian, Sida Wang, Felix Juefei-Xu, Tsu-Jui Fu, Xiuyu Li, Adam Yala, Trevor Darrell, Alane Suhr, Yuandong Tian, Xi Victoria Lin
arXiv AI
Jun 15

Fractured Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

arXiv:2505. 12992v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Inference-time scaling techniques have significantly bolstered the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by harnessing additional computational effort at inference without retraining.

By Baohao Liao, Hanze Dong, Yuhui Xu, Doyen Sahoo, Christof Monz, Junnan Li, Caiming Xiong
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