- PubMed Reasoner: Dynamic Reasoning-based Retrieval for Evidence-Grounded Biomedical Question Answering
Yiqing Zhang, Xiaozhong Liu, Fabricio Murai · Mar 28, 2026 · Citations: 0
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In this context, we introduce PubMed Reasoner, a biomedical QA agent composed of three stages: self-critic query refinement evaluates MeSH terms for coverage, alignment, and redundancy to enhance PubMed queries based on partial (metadata)…
- Don't Pass@k: A Bayesian Framework for Large Language Model Evaluation
Mohsen Hariri, Amirhossein Samandar, Michael Hinczewski, Vipin Chaudhary · Oct 5, 2025 · Citations: 0
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We present a principled Bayesian evaluation framework that replaces Pass@k and average accuracy over N trials (avg@N) with posterior estimates of a model's underlying success probability and credible intervals, yielding stable rankings and…
- Hidden Measurement Error in LLM Pipelines Distorts Annotation, Evaluation, and Benchmarking
Solomon Messing · Apr 13, 2026 · Citations: 0
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LLM evaluations drive which models get deployed, what safety standards get adopted, which research conclusions get published, and how projections of AI's labor-market impact get made.
- Enhanced LLM Reasoning by Optimizing Reward Functions with Search-Driven Reinforcement Learning
Arash Ahmadi, Sarah Sharif, Yaser, Banad · May 3, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Mathematical reasoning is a key benchmark for large language models.
- $V_1$: Unifying Generation and Self-Verification for Parallel Reasoners
Harman Singh, Xiuyu Li, Kusha Sareen, Monishwaran Maheswaran, Sijun Tan · Mar 4, 2026 · Citations: 0
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On code generation (LiveCodeBench, CodeContests, SWE-Bench) and math reasoning (AIME, HMMT) benchmarks, V_1-Infer improves Pass@1 by up to 10% over pointwise verification and outperforms recent test-time scaling methods while being…
- How Reliable is Language Model Micro-Benchmarking?
Gregory Yauney, Shahzaib Saqib Warraich, Swabha Swayamdipta · Oct 9, 2025 · Citations: 0
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We introduce a meta-evaluation measure for micro-benchmarking which investigates how well a micro-benchmark can rank two models as a function of their performance difference on the full benchmark.
- Entropy trajectory shape predicts LLM reasoning reliability: A diagnostic study of uncertainty dynamics in chain-of-thought
Xinghao Zhao · Mar 19, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning improves LLM accuracy, yet detecting failures cheaply remains elusive.
- RASPRef: Retrieval-Augmented Self-Supervised Prompt Refinement for Large Reasoning Models
Rahul Soni · Mar 27, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Recent reasoning-focused language models such as DeepSeek R1 and OpenAI o1 have demonstrated strong performance on structured reasoning benchmarks including GSM8K, MATH, and multi-hop question answering tasks.
- Think$^{2}$: Grounded Metacognitive Reasoning in Large Language Models
Abraham Paul Elenjical, Vivek Hruday Kavuri, Vasudeva Varma · Feb 21, 2026 · Citations: 0
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We introduce a psychologically grounded metacognitive framework that operationalizes Ann Brown's regulatory cycle (Planning, Monitoring, and Evaluation) as a structured prompting architecture, and study its integration within a lightweight…
- Cliff Tokens: Identifying Single-Token Failure Triggers in LLM Mathematical Reasoning
Jaeyong Ko, Pilsung Kang, Yukyung Lee · Jun 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Across seven models and three mathematical reasoning benchmarks (GSM1K, MATH500, AIME 2025), cliff tokens act as failure triggers; deleting the first cliff token and resampling recovers pass@64 to 1.0, while keeping it limits recovery to…
- Stabilizing Iterative Self-Training with Verified Reasoning via Symbolic Recursive Self-Alignment
Xinyu Zhang · Mar 23, 2026 · Citations: 0
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We further demonstrate that constructing DPO preference pairs from NSRSA verification teaches the model to distinguish sound from flawed reasoning (reward accuracy 46% to 63%).
- GIFT: Group-Relative Implicit Fine-Tuning Integrates GRPO with DPO and UNA
Zhichao Wang · Oct 27, 2025 · Citations: 0
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This paper proposes Group-relative Implicit Fine-Tuning (GIFT), a reinforcement learning framework for aligning large language models (LLMs) that unifies on-policy optimization with implicit preference learning.
- FOR-Prompting: From Objection to Revision via an Asymmetric Prompting Protocol
He Zhang, Anzhou Zhang, Jian Dai · Oct 2, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Beyond structured math tasks, FOR-Prompting supports refinement in open-ended and multi-stage tasks: qualitative analysis shows improved exploration, coverage, and specificity, and a blind study of human preferences found that participants…
- Critique-GRPO: Advancing LLM Reasoning with Natural Language and Numerical Feedback
Xiaoying Zhang, Yipeng Zhang, Hao Sun, Kaituo Feng, Chaochao Lu · Jun 3, 2025 · Citations: 0
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We show that plateaued RL models can successfully refine failed solutions when given natural language critiques.
- Don't Overthink It: Inter-Rollout Action Agreement as a Free Adaptive-Compute Signal for LLM Agents
Khushal Sethi · Apr 9, 2026 · Citations: 0
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We introduce TrACE (Trajectorical Adaptive Compute via agrEement), a training-free controller that allocates LLM calls adaptively across agent timesteps by measuring inter-rollout action agreement.
- S0 Tuning: Zero-Overhead Adaptation of Hybrid Recurrent-Attention Models
Jack Young · Apr 1, 2026 · Citations: 0
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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.
- Top-b: Entropic Regulation of Relative Probability Bands in Autoregressive Language Processes
Deepon Halder, Raj Dabre · Mar 15, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Empirical validation on GPQA and GSM8K benchmarks indicates that Top-b significantly reduces generation entropy and inter-decoding variance while maintaining competitive reasoning accuracy, effectively approximating a self-regulating…
- Learning When to Sample: Confidence-Aware Self-Consistency for Efficient LLM Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Juming Xiong, Kevin Guo, Congning Ni, Chao Yan, Katherine Brown · Mar 9, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Recent self-consistency-based approaches further improve accuracy but require sampling and aggregating multiple reasoning trajectories, leading to substantial additional computational overhead.
- D-COT: Disciplined Chain-of-Thought Learning for Efficient Reasoning in Small Language Models
Shunsuke Ubukata · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
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In this study, we propose Disciplined Chain-of-Thought (D-CoT), a novel framework that enforces a structured reasoning process using control tags -- such as <TEMP_LOW> for fact-checking and <TEMP_HIGH> for multi-perspective exploration --…
- The Flexibility Trap: Why Arbitrary Order Limits Reasoning Potential in Diffusion Language Models
Zanlin Ni, Shenzhi Wang, Yang Yue, Tianyu Yu, Weilin Zhao · Jan 21, 2026 · Citations: 0
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We demonstrate that effective reasoning can be better elicited by intentionally forgoing arbitrary order and applying standard Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) instead.
- 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
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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…
- SPARE: Single-Pass Annotation with Reference-Guided Evaluation for Automatic Process Supervision and Reward Modelling
Md Imbesat Hassan Rizvi, Xiaodan Zhu, Iryna Gurevych · Jun 18, 2025 · Citations: 0
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To address this, we introduce Single-Pass Annotation with Reference-Guided Evaluation (SPARE), a novel structured framework that enables efficient per-step annotation by jointly aligning solution steps to reference solutions and determine…
- Accelerated Test-Time Scaling with Model-Free Speculative Sampling
Woomin Song, Saket Dingliwal, Sai Muralidhar Jayanthi, Bhavana Ganesh, Jinwoo Shin · Jun 5, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Extensive evaluations across multiple models and reasoning tasks (AIME-2024, GPQA-Diamond, and LiveCodeBench) demonstrate that STAND reduces inference latency by 60-65% compared to standard autoregressive decoding while maintaining…
- Resolution Diagnostics for Paired LLM Evaluation
Anany Kotawala · May 28, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Across two public LLM leaderboards, many displayed pairwise rankings do not meet a conventional paired-test resolution target under the actual paired evaluation design: 11 of 40 Open LLM Leaderboard v1 pairwise comparisons and 4 of 9…
- DeepPrune: Parallel Scaling without Inter-trace Redundancy
Shangqing Tu, Yaxuan Li, Yushi Bai, Lei Hou, Juanzi Li · Oct 9, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Our method features a specialized judge model trained with out-of-distribution data (AIME 2022, AIME 2023, and MATH 500) using oversampling techniques to accurately predict answer equivalence from partial reasoning traces, achieving 0.7072…
- Confidence-Driven Multi-Scale Model Selection for Cost-Efficient Inference
Bo-Wei Chen, Chung-Chi Chen, An-Zi Yen · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Experiments on the Massive Multitask Language Understanding (MMLU) benchmark show that our approach achieves accuracy comparable to the largest model while reducing computational costs by 20\% to 40\%.
- The Hidden Cost of Structured Generation in LLMs: Draft-Conditioned Constrained Decoding
Avinash Reddy, Thayne T. Walker, James S. Ide, Amrit Singh Bedi · Feb 8, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Across structured reasoning benchmarks, DCCD improves strict structured accuracy by up to +24 percentage points over standard constrained decoding (e.g., 15.2\% to 39.0\% on GSM8K with a 1B model), and enables smaller model pairs to match…
- Fragile Knowledge, Robust Instruction-Following: The Width Pruning Dichotomy in Llama-3.2
Pere Martra · Dec 27, 2025 · Citations: 0
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We evaluated seven expansion ratio configurations using comprehensive benchmarks assessing factual knowledge, mathematical reasoning, language comprehension, instruction-following, and truthfulness.
- Cost-Effective Communication: An Auction-based Method for Language Agent Interaction
Yijia Fan, Jusheng Zhang, Kaitong Cai, Jing Yang, Chengpei Tang · Nov 17, 2025 · Citations: 0
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To address this, we introduce the Dynamic Auction-based Language Agent (DALA), a novel framework that treats communication bandwidth as a scarce and tradable resource.
- SIGMA: Search-Augmented On-Demand Knowledge Integration for Agentic Mathematical Reasoning
Ali Asgarov, Umid Suleymanov, Aadyant Khatri · Oct 31, 2025 · Citations: 0
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We introduce SIGMA (Search-Augmented On-Demand Knowledge Integration for AGentic Mathematical reAsoning), a unified framework that orchestrates specialized agents to independently reason, perform targeted searches, and synthesize findings…
- Towards Hierarchical Multi-Step Reward Models for Enhanced Reasoning in Large Language Models
Teng Wang, Zhangyi Jiang, Zhenqi He, Shenyang Tong, Wenhan Yang · Mar 16, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Empirical results on the PRM800K dataset show that HRM, together with HNC, provides more stable and reliable evaluations than PRM.
- Inducing Epistemological Humility in Large Language Models: A Targeted SFT Approach to Reducing Hallucination
Cem Uluoglakci, Tugba Taskaya Temizel · Mar 18, 2026 · Citations: 0
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We also release HypoTermQA-Enhanced, a benchmark for hallucination tendency strengthened through multiple validations.
- Long Grounded Thoughts: Synthesizing Visual Problems and Reasoning Chains at Scale
David Acuna, Chao-Han Huck Yang, Yuntian Deng, Jaehun Jung, Ximing Lu · Nov 7, 2025 · Citations: 0
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We introduce a framework able to synthesize vision-centric problems spanning diverse levels of complexity, and the resulting dataset with over 1M high-quality problems including: reasoning traces, preference data, and instruction prompts…
- Masked Language Flow Models
Iskander Azangulov, Kianoosh Ashouritaklimi, Leo Zhang, Simon Vary, Patrick Rebeschini · Jun 26, 2026 · Citations: 0
- EntMTP: Accelerating LLM Inference with Entropy Guided Multi Token Prediction
Carrie Chen · Jun 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
- BrahmicTokenizer-131K: An Indic-Capable Drop-In Replacement for o200k_base
Rohan Shravan · May 28, 2026 · Citations: 0
- ReasonOps: Operator Segmentation for LLM Reasoning Traces
Daniel Lee, Owen Queen, James Zou · May 28, 2026 · Citations: 0
- ACC: Compiling Agent Trajectories for Long-Context Training
Qisheng Su, Zhen Fang, Shiting Huang, Yu Zeng, Yiming Zhao · May 21, 2026 · Citations: 0
- X-Token: Projection-Guided Cross-Tokenizer Knowledge Distillation
Sharath Turuvekere Sreenivas, Adithyakrishna Venkatesh Hanasoge, Mingyu Yang, Ali Taghibakhshi, Saurav Muralidharan · May 20, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Prompt Compression in Diffusion Large Language Models: Evaluating LLMLingua-2 on LLaDA
Sterling Huang, Abigayle Brown, Jiyoo Noh, Jiakang Xu, Wantong Huo · May 18, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Weak-to-Strong Elicitation via Mismatched Wrong Drafts
Wei Deng · May 17, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Roll Out and Roll Back: Diffusion LLMs are Their Own Efficiency Teachers
Fanqin Zeng, Feng Hong, Geng Yu, Huangjie Zheng, Xiaofeng Cao · May 16, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Confidence Geometry Reveals Trace-Level Correctness in Large Language Model Reasoning
Shuo Liu, Ding Liu, Shi-Ju Ran · May 16, 2026 · Citations: 0
- The Metacognitive Probe: Five Behavioural Calibration Diagnostics for LLMs
Rafael C. T. Oliveira · May 11, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Learning Multi-Indicator Weights for Data Selection: A Joint Task-Model Adaptation Framework with Efficient Proxies
Jingze Song, Zihao Chen, Wenqing Chen, Zibin Zheng · May 10, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Statistical Scouting Finds Debate-Safe but Not Debate-Useful Cases: A Matched-Ceiling Study of Open-Weight LLM Reasoning Protocols
Julia Hu, Alfred Shen, Kumar Lakshmipathi · May 10, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Edit-Based Refinement for Parallel Masked Diffusion Language Models
Houxing Ren, Mingjie Zhan, Zimu Lu, Ke Wang, Yunqiao Yang · May 10, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Not All Thoughts Need HBM: Semantics-Aware Memory Hierarchy for LLM Reasoning
Aojie Yuan, Tianqi Shen, Dajun Zhang · May 10, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Rubric-Grounded RL: Structured Judge Rewards for Generalizable Reasoning
Manish Bhattarai, Ismael Boureima, Nishath Rajiv Ranasinghe, Scott Pakin, Dan O'Malley · May 8, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Prune-OPD: Efficient and Reliable On-Policy Distillation for Long-Horizon Reasoning
Zhicheng Yang, Zhijiang Guo, Yifan Song, Minrui Xu, Yongxin Wang · May 8, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Unsolvability Ceiling in Multi-LLM Routing: An Empirical Study of Evaluation Artifacts
Saloni Garg, Amit Sagtani · May 8, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Gradient-Based LoRA Rank Allocation Under GRPO: An Empirical Study
Yash Ganpat Sawant · May 8, 2026 · Citations: 0
- LaTER: Efficient Test-Time Reasoning via Latent Exploration and Explicit Verification
Xuan Li, Yining Wang, Yuchen Liu, Guanjun Liu, Delai Qiu · May 8, 2026 · Citations: 0
- From 0-Order Selection to 2-Order Judgment: Combinatorial Hardening Exposes Compositional Failures in Frontier LLMs
Hanmeng Liu, Shichao Weng, Xiulai Liu, Zhicai Zhang, Anli Yan · May 8, 2026 · Citations: 0
- When Are Experts Misrouted? Counterfactual Routing Analysis in Mixture-of-Experts Language Models
Youngsik Yoon, Siwei Wang, Wei Chen, Jungseul Ok · May 8, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Beyond Negative Rollouts: Positive-Only Policy Optimization with Implicit Negative Gradients
Mingwei Xu, Hao Fang · May 7, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Is Escalation Worth It? A Decision-Theoretic Characterization of LLM Cascades
Dylan Bouchard · May 7, 2026 · Citations: 0
- More Is Not Always Better: Cross-Component Interference in LLM Agent Scaffolding
Ming Liu · May 7, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Decodable but Not Corrected by Fixed Residual-Stream Linear Steering: Evidence from Medical LLM Failure Regimes
Ming Liu · May 7, 2026 · Citations: 0
- ZAYA1-8B Technical Report
Robert Washbourne, Rishi Iyer, Tomas Figliolia, Henry Zheng, Ryan Lorig-Roach · May 6, 2026 · Citations: 0