arXiv:2510. 05969v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed on complex reasoning tasks, yet little is known about their ability to internally evaluate problem difficulty, which is an essential capability for adaptive reasoning and efficient resource allocation.
By Sunbowen Lee, Qingyu Yin, Chak Tou Leong, Jialiang Zhang, Yicheng Gong, Shiwen Ni, Min Yang, Xiaoyu Shen
arXiv:2607. 21306v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as tutors and thought partners, helping users reason through problems.
By Verona Teo, Raghav Jain, Tobias Gerstenberg, Max Kleiman-Weiner
arXiv:2606. 05106v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We investigate whether methods of human mathematics pedagogy can guide the training of language models toward arithmetic reasoning.
By Andhika Bernard Lumbantobing, Hokky Situngkir
arXiv:2601. 22510v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) often achieve strong benchmark accuracy yet remain brittle under small distribution shifts.
By Xingyu Zhao, Darsh Sharma, Rheeya Uppaal, Yiqiao Zhong
arXiv:2609.25438v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Diverse pretraining has been shown to be an effective method for learning reusable, domain-aware representations that provide a starting point for fine...
By Henry Kvinge
arXiv:2408. 04619v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Transformer architecture underpins modern large language models powering state-of-the-art text generation and AI applications.
By Aeree Cho, Grace C. Kim, Alexander Karpekov, Seongmin Lee, Alec Helbling, Benjamin Hoover, Zijie J. Wang, Minsuk Kahng, Duen Horng Chau
The paper investigates how large language models learn new tasks in-context, comparing rule-based instruction following to example-based few-shot prompting across five diverse tasks. Results show that models generally learn more reliably from rule descriptions than from examples alone, and adding more examples does not consistently improve performance. Instruction tuning further enhances rule-based learning while preserving example-based capabilities, with rule advantages being strongest for algebraic tasks and weaker for tasks requiring distributional sensitivity or parametric knowledge.
By Xiang Fu, Seungmin Cho, Yukyung Lee, Najoung Kim
arXiv:2606. 12422v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The integration of large language models (LLMs) into educational assessment represents a transformative shift in classroom grading practices.
By Zewei Tian, Alex Liu, Lief Esbenshade, Michael Xiao, Zachary Zhang, Yulia L\'apicus, Thomas Han, Kevin He, Min Sun
arXiv:2602. 04843v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Frontier large language models increasingly solve complex tasks involving abstract concepts through extended test-time thinking.
By Dmitrii Kharlapenko, Terry Jingchen Zhang, Arth Singh, Alessandro Stolfo, Arthur Conmy, Mrinmaya Sachan, Zhijing Jin
arXiv:2606. 18257v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While LLMs show promise in automating educational content creation, their ability to generate questions that stimulate higher-order thinking remains understudied.
By Xiaolong Wang, Zhe Zhao, Song Lai, Chaoli Zhang, Zijie Geng, Yu Tong, Ye Wei, Qingsong Wen
arXiv:2607. 22925v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A key question for AI safety is whether a language model expresses all of its reasoning in its output tokens.
By Vatsal Baherwani, Tom Goldstein, Ashwinee Panda
arXiv:2609.28470v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Artificial intelligence offers an unprecedented opportunity to augment human capabilities, yet progress at the frontier has focused primarily on advanc...
By Curtis Northcutt, Inaara Hasmani, Kevin Feng, Trevor Khangi, Andreas Plesner, Jonas Mueller