Algorithmic Scratchpads and Curriculum Staging for Arithmetic Reasoning in Tiny Transformers
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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...
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:2602. 01997v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent work has shown that layer pruning can effectively compress large language models (LLMs) while retaining strong performance on classification benchmarks, often with little or no finetuning.
The paper investigates how different forms of compressed chain‑of‑thought (CoT) reasoning—Explicit, Composed, and Implicit—affect large language model (LLM) performance after supervised fine‑tuning (SFT). Using a synthetic compositional reasoning task, the authors show that coarser CoT requires more SFT data, that Composed and Implicit CoT benefit more from data scaling (with Composed also benefiting from repetition), and that reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) can decompose compressed steps learned during SFT. Additionally, unidirectional CoT ordering improves generalization on longer sequential tasks.
arXiv:2602.21061v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many current paths to more advanced AI depend on the assumption that large language models (LLMs) can generalize learned relationships to solve com...
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...