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Reliable Control-Point Selection for Steering Reasoning in Large Language Models

Haomin Zhuang, Hojun Yoo, Xiaonan Luo, Kehan Guo, Xiangliang Zhang · Apr 2, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/2 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 90% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics MathCoding
  • Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Open paper
Online Reasoning Calibration: Test-Time Training Enables Generalizable Conformal LLM Reasoning

Cai Zhou, Zekai Wang, Menghua Wu, Qianyu Julie Zhu, Flora C. Shi, Chenyu Wang · Apr 1, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/2 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 90% High protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics MathCoding
  • Under zero-shot out-of-domain settings, it improves MATH-500 savings from 24.8% of the static calibration baseline to 67.0% while maintaining a low empirical error rate, and the same trend holds across model families and downstream…
Open paper
Locally Confident, Globally Stuck: The Quality-Exploration Dilemma in Diffusion Language Models

Liancheng Fang, Aiwei Liu, Henry Peng Zou, Yankai Chen, Enze Ma, Leyi Pan · Apr 1, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/2 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 83% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Math
  • Experiments across a range of reasoning benchmarks including MATH500, AIME24/25, HumanEval, and MBPP show that our approach yields better exploration-quality tradeoff than both random and low-confidence remasking.
Open paper
TAPS: Task Aware Proposal Distributions for Speculative Sampling

Mohamad Zbib, Mohamad Bazzi, Ammar Mohanna, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Bernard Ghanem · Mar 27, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/2 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 83% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Ready
Math
  • Measured by acceptance length, task-specific training yields clear specialization: MathInstruct-trained drafts are strongest on reasoning benchmarks, while ShareGPT-trained drafts are strongest on MT-Bench.
  • Finally, confidence is a more useful routing signal than entropy: rejected tokens tend to have higher entropy, but confidence produces much clearer benchmark-level routing decisions.
Open paper

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/2 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 90% High protocol signal Freshness: Hot Status: Fallback
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon MathCoding
  • Using roughly 48 execution-verified HumanEval training solutions, tuning a single initial state matrix per recurrent layer, with zero inference overhead, outperforms LoRA by +10.8 pp (p < 0.001) on HumanEval.
  • Cross-domain transfer is significant on MATH-500 (+4.8 pp, p = 0.00002, 8 seeds) and GSM8K (+2.8 pp, p = 0.0003, 10 seeds); a text-to-SQL benchmark (Spider) shows no transfer, consistent with the trajectory-steering mechanism.
Open paper
Overconfident Errors Need Stronger Correction: Asymmetric Confidence Penalties for Reinforcement Learning

Yuanda Xu, Hejian Sang, Zhengze Zhou, Ran He, Zhipeng Wang · Feb 24, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/2 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 83% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics Math
  • Evaluated on MATH-500 and AIME 2025, ACE composes seamlessly with existing methods and consistently improves the full Pass@k spectrum across all three model families and benchmarks.
Open paper
What If We Allocate Test-Time Compute Adaptively?

Ahsan Bilal, Ahmed Mohsin, Muhammad Umer, Ali Subhan, Hassan Rizwan, Ayesha Mohsin · Feb 1, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/2 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 80% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Long Horizon Math
  • For each problem, the agent runs multiple inference iterations.
  • Across datasets, our dynamic, PRM-guided approach consistently outperforms direct test-time scaling, yielding large gains on MATH-500 and several-fold improvements on harder benchmarks such as AIME24 and AMO-Bench.
Open paper

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/2 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 77% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
MathCoding
  • We introduce a taxonomy of three defense categories -- output perturbation, data poisoning, and information throttling -- and evaluate nine defense configurations using a standardized pipeline with Qwen3-14B as teacher and…
Open paper
Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning of LLMs with Mixture of Space Experts

Buze Zhang, Jinkai Tao, Zilang Zeng, Neil He, Ali Maatouk, Menglin Yang · Feb 16, 2026

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/2 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 77% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Warm Status: Ready
Math
  • Our experiments across diverse benchmarks demonstrate that MoSLoRA consistently outperforms strong baselines, achieving up to 5.6% improvement on MATH500 and 15.9% on MAWPS.
Open paper
KV Cache Transform Coding for Compact Storage in LLM Inference

Konrad Staniszewski, Adrian Łańcucki · Nov 3, 2025

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/2 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 78% High protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics MathCoding
  • We test KVTC with Llama 3, Mistral NeMo, and R1-Qwen 2.5 models across benchmarks including AIME25, GSM8K, LiveCodeBench, LongBench, MATH-500, MMLU, Qasper and RULER.
Open paper
When to Ensemble: Identifying Token-Level Points for Stable and Fast LLM Ensembling

Heecheol Yun, Kwangmin Ki, Junghyun Lee, Eunho Yang · Oct 17, 2025

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/2 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 78% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics Math
  • Our experiments on diverse benchmarks, including MATH500 and BBH, demonstrate that SAFE outperforms existing methods in both accuracy and efficiency, with gains achieved even when ensembling fewer than 1% of tokens.
Open paper
$\texttt{SPECS}$: Faster Test-Time Scaling through Speculative Drafts

Mert Cemri, Nived Rajaraman, Rishabh Tiwari, Xiaoxuan Liu, Kurt Keutzer, Ion Stoica · Jun 15, 2025

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/2 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 78% Moderate protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
Automatic Metrics Math
  • Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Open paper
MathSmith: Towards Extremely Hard Mathematical Reasoning by Forging Synthetic Problems with a Reinforced Policy

Shaoxiong Zhan, Yanlin Lai, Ziyu Lu, Dahua Lin, Ziqing Yang, Fei Tan · Aug 7, 2025

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/2 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 71% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
MathCoding
  • Existing synthesis methods largely rely on transforming human-written templates, limiting both diversity and scalability.
  • Experiments across five benchmarks, categorized as easy & medium (GSM8K, MATH-500) and hard (AIME2024, AIME2025, OlympiadBench), show that MathSmith consistently outperforms existing baselines under both short and long CoT settings.
Open paper
Spurious Rewards: Rethinking Training Signals in RLVR

Rulin Shao, Shuyue Stella Li, Rui Xin, Scott Geng, Yiping Wang, Sewoong Oh · Jun 12, 2025

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/2 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 71% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
MathCoding
  • Abstract shows limited direct human-feedback or evaluation-protocol detail; use as adjacent methodological context.
Open paper
InftyThink: Breaking the Length Limits of Long-Context Reasoning in Large Language Models

Yuchen Yan, Yongliang Shen, Yang Liu, Jin Jiang, Mengdi Zhang, Jian Shao · Mar 9, 2025

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/2 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 71% Sparse protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Ready
Math
  • Experiments across multiple model architectures demonstrate that our approach reduces computational costs while improving performance, with Qwen2.5-Math-7B showing 3-11% improvements across MATH500, AIME24, and GPQA_diamond benchmarks.
Open paper
Cache What Lasts: Token Retention for Memory-Bounded KV Cache in LLMs

Ngoc Bui, Shubham Sharma, Simran Lamba, Saumitra Mishra, Rex Ying · Dec 3, 2025

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/2 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 78% High protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Fallback
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon Math
  • Across mathematical reasoning (GSM8K, MATH-500, AIME24), procedural generation (LongProc), conversational long-memory benchmarks (LongMemEval), and long-context understanding (LongBenchV2 and SCBench), TRIM-KV consistently outperforms…
  • Qualitative analyses further reveal that learned retention scores align with human intuition, naturally recovering heuristics such as sink tokens, sliding windows, and gist compression without explicit design.
Open paper
Towards Hierarchical Multi-Step Reward Models for Enhanced Reasoning in Large Language Models

Teng Wang, Zhangyi Jiang, Zhenqi He, Shenyang Tong, Wenhan Yang, Yanan Zheng · Mar 16, 2025

Citations: 0

Match reason: Keyword overlap 2/2 across title and protocol fields.

Score: 78% High protocol signal Freshness: Cold Status: Fallback
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon MathLaw
  • Empirical results on the PRM800K dataset show that HRM, together with HNC, provides more stable and reliable evaluations than PRM.
  • Furthermore, cross-domain evaluations on the MATH500 and GSM8K datasets demonstrate HRM's strong generalization and robustness across a variety of reasoning tasks.
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