arXiv AI

ChainPrune: Evaluating and Reducing Redundancy in Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

arXiv Computation and Language
3d ago

Enhancing Language Model Reasoning with Structured Multi-Level Modeling

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 AI
Jun 30

Reconsidering Overthinking: Penalizing Internal and External Redundancy in CoT Reasoning

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 AI
Jun 30

To Reason or to Fabricate: Reasoning Without Shortcuts via Hint-Anchored Pairwise Aggregation

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