arXiv:2609.17019v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has been proven to be effective, it often leads to overthinking, resulting in computational overhead, inference...
By Qinhong Lin, Yuhao Zhang, Yinglun Feng, Zhongliang Yang, Linna Zhou
arXiv:2606. 03503v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have achieved remarkable progress thanks to Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) on Chain-of-Thoughts (CoTs).
By Ziyan Liu, Xueda Shen, Yuzhe Gu, Songyang Gao, Kuikun Liu, Guangran Cheng, Chengqi Lyu, Dahua Lin, Wenwei Zhang, Kai Chen
The paper introduces Multi-Level Reasoning (MLR), a two-level stochastic framework that separates long chain-of-thought generation into a high-level planner producing structured step descriptors and a low-level executor generating detailed reasoning. MLR replaces single-policy reinforcement learning with an iterative Step‑DPO preference optimization that uses Twisted Sequential Monte Carlo for scalable, stepwise supervision, improving training stability and accuracy. Experiments on math, science, and logic benchmarks show that MLR outperforms both supervised fine‑tuning and strong RL baselines while maintaining robustness over extended reasoning horizons.
By Siheng Xiong, Ali Payani, Faramarz Fekri
arXiv:2607. 11089v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in complex reasoning tasks through Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting.
By Mohammed Ehab, Aymane El Gadarri, Vivek F. Farias, Adam Jozefiak, Ciamac C. Moallemi
arXiv:2607. 19962v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) often suffer from overthinking due to redundant verification steps.
By Xinbang Dai, Zheyu Xin, Huikang Hu, Lin Ren, Rihui Jin, Guohui Xiao, Guilin Qi, Kuicai Dong, Zhaocheng Du, Yuyang Zhang
Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in complex reasoning tasks through Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting. However, these models often exhibit "computational overthinking," generating redundant reasoning steps that increase latency and cost without improving accuracy.
arXiv:2508. 02178v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large reasoning models (LRMs) often exhibit overthinking, producing verbose Chain-of-Thought (CoT) traces that increase inference cost and obscure the underlying reasoning process.
By Taihang Zhen, Jialiang Hong, Kai Chen, Guang Yang, Junlan Feng, Wenpeng Zhu, Jing Huo, Yang Gao, Depeng Wang, Haitao Wan, Xi Yang, Fanyu Meng, Yuyao Zhang, Ji Qi, Xiangyu Zhou
arXiv:2604. 20140v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) is an effective framework for aligning large language models with human preferences, but it struggles with complex reasoning tasks.
By Darsh Kachroo, Arjun Prasaath Anbazhagan, Adriana Caraeni, Brennan Lagasse, Kevin Zhu
arXiv:2606. 29481v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While reinforcement learning (RL) significantly enhances LLM reasoning, its efficacy is severely undermined by Pre-RL data overlap, where RL datasets overlap with pretraining or SFT corpora, causing models to exploit shortcuts by memorizing correct answers and fabricating post-hoc reasoning.
By Jiuheng Lin, Chen Zhang, Yansong Feng
arXiv:2603. 08000v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large reasoning models (LRMs) like OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek-R1 achieve high accuracy on complex tasks by adopting long chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning paths.
By Chenzhi Hu, Qinzhe Hu, Yuhang Xu, Junyi Chen, Ruijie Wang, Shengzhong Liu, Jianxin Li, Fan Wu, Guihai Chen
arXiv:2605.13165v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Long chain-of-thought (Long CoT) reasoning improves performance on multi-step problems, but it also induces overthinking. This inefficiency is espe...
By Chenjun Xu, Zhennan Zhou, Zhan Su, Bill Howe, Lucy Lu Wang, Bingbing Wen
arXiv:2507.21931v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) often produce plausible but poorly-calibrated answers, limiting their reliability on reasoning-intensive tasks....
By Carel van Niekerk, Renato Vukovic, Benjamin Ruppik, Hsien-chin Lin, Shutong Feng, Milica Ga\v{s}i\'c