arXiv:2605. 05686v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Language models draw on two knowledge sources: facts baked into weights (parametric memory, PM) and information in context (working memory, WM).
By Qiyao Liang, Risto Miikkulainen, Ila Fiete
arXiv:2607. 08724v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human decision-making is highly flexible -- some actions are taken immediately; others require longer deliberation.
By Chuning Zhu, Eva Xu, Jose Barreiros, Krishnan Srinivasan, Paarth Shah, Abhishek Gupta
arXiv:2606. 28589v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Current approaches to enhance Large Language Model (LLM) reasoning, such as Chain-of-Thought and "Wait" prompts, primarily encourage models to think more, yet often fail to guide them toward Truth.
By Tianlong Wang, Yuhang Wang, Weibin Liao, Xin Gao, Xinyu Ma, Yang Lin, Yasha Wang, Liantao Ma
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:2606. 16360v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting improves reasoning in large language models (LLMs) by externalizing intermediate computation as discrete text tokens, but this textual interface also introduces redundancy and inference overhead.
By Hanyu Lin, Min Cai, Jiawei Wen, Haodi Zhang
arXiv:2607. 21433v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chain-of-thought reasoning models such as DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-7B exhibit a bimodal convergence pattern: generations either terminate within a token budget (converged) or exhaust it without reaching a conclusion (non-converged).
By Renuka Oladri, Niveda Jawahar, Abdirisak Mohamed