arXiv:2607. 11116v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep equilibrium models promise input-adaptive implicit computation: harder problems should demand more solver iterations, and the solved equilibrium should encode the result of genuine iterative inference.
By Joyjeet Singh
Deep equilibrium models promise input-adaptive implicit computation: harder problems should demand more solver iterations, and the solved equilibrium should encode the result of genuine iterative inference. We report a cautionary study of a port-Hamiltonian DEQ with a learned initialization on two reasoning tasks -- ProofWriter entailment over frozen DeBERTa embeddings and a BFS-verified graph-reachability benchmark -- in which the implicit computation is a silent no-op.
arXiv:2608. 09942v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: It is widely assumed that chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting universally improves LLM reasoning.
By Tughanbulut Kurtulush
arXiv:2608. 02585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Optimization-based latent reasoning improves large language model outputs by optimizing instance-specific continuous states at test time while keeping model parameters frozen.
By Zhaoxin Yu, Qi Shen, Hengli Li, Zhaowei Zhang, Song-Chun Zhu, Chi Zhang, Zilong Zheng
arXiv:2609.39967v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Recursive reasoning models apply a small shared Transformer block many times to refine a latent state. This gives them large effective depth with few...
By Yuliana Shakhvalieva, Dmitrii Kharchev, Viacheslav Bezrukov, Inessa Fedorova, Dmitry Bocharov, Ivan Oseledets, Valerii Ternovskii
arXiv:2605. 22873v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning has become the default strategy for enhancing LLM capabilities, yet its application raises a fundamental question: when is explicit reasoning actually beneficial?
By Wei Xia, Haoqing Wang, Zhi-Hong Deng, Yehui Tang
arXiv:2605. 14084v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Code agents must both reason over long-horizon repository state and obey strict tool-use protocols.
By Mingzhi Zhu, Michele Merler, Raju Pavuluri, Stacy Patterson
The paper introduces ELF-REG, a scaling of continuous diffusion language models (dLMs) for reasoning tasks. By aligning representations and using a frozen autoregressive teacher to supervise intermediate denoiser features, ELF-REG achieves higher pass@1 rates on GSM8K, MATH-500, HumanEval, and MBPP compared to prior dLMs. The method also enables strong low‑NFE performance through early‑stop decoding of intermediate predictions.
By Zeyu Michael Li, William Xingxu Chen, Bingshuo Qian, Jiayin Liu, Xiang Cheng
arXiv:2606. 06447v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models often improve reasoning by generating explicit chain-of-thought (CoT), demonstrating the importance of intermediate computation.
By Guancheng Tu, Xiangjun Fu, Suhao Yu, Yao Tang, Haoqiang Kang, Lianhui Qin, Yizhe Zhang, Jiatao Gu
arXiv:2609.09001v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multi-step LLM reasoning lacks a machine-recheckable ledger: discarded reasoning paths leave no auditable record. We propose the Deposon scattering lay...
By Qihao Yuan
Recursive reasoning models apply a small shared Transformer block many times to refine a latent state. This gives them large effective depth with few parameters and makes them strong on algorithmic ta...
arXiv:2606. 31779v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models typically reason via explicit chain-of-thought (CoT), generating intermediate steps token-by-token.
By Ying Fan, Anej Svete, Kangwook Lee