- Brief Is Better: Non-Monotonic Chain-of-Thought Budget Effects in Function-Calling Language Agents
Xuan Qi · Apr 2, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning is widely assumed to improve agent performance, but the relationship between reasoning length and accuracy in structured tool-use settings remains poorly understood.
- 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…
- 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 --…
- 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…
- 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…
- SkillX: Automatically Constructing Skill Knowledge Bases for Agents
Chenxi Wang, Zhuoyun Yu, Xin Xie, Wuguannan Yao, Runnan Fang · Apr 6, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Learning from experience is critical for building capable large language model (LLM) agents, yet prevailing self-evolving paradigms remain inefficient: agents learn in isolation, repeatedly rediscover similar behaviors from limited…
- The Bitter Lesson of Diffusion Language Models for Agentic Workflows: A Comprehensive Reality Check
Qingyu Lu, Liang Ding, Kanjian Zhang, Jinxia Zhang, Dacheng Tao · Jan 19, 2026 · Citations: 0
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In this work, we present a comprehensive evaluation of dLLMs (e.g., LLaDA, Dream) across two distinct agentic paradigms: Embodied Agents (requiring long-horizon planning) and Tool-Calling Agents (requiring precise formatting).
- 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…
- Failure Makes the Agent Stronger: Enhancing Accuracy through Structured Reflection for Reliable Tool Interactions
Junhao Su, Yuanliang Wan, Junwei Yang, Hengyu Shi, Tianyang Han · Sep 23, 2025 · Citations: 0
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The agent produces a short yet precise reflection: it diagnoses the failure using evidence from the previous step and then proposes a correct, executable follow-up call.
- Schema for In-Context Learning
Pan Chen, Shaohong Chen, Mark Wang, Shi Xuan Leong, Priscilla Fung · Oct 14, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Inspired by cognitive science, specifically schema theory, which holds that humans interpret new information by activating pre-existing mental frameworks (schemas) to structure understanding, we introduce Schema-Activated In-Context…
- Notation Matters: A Benchmark Study of Token-Optimized Formats in Agentic AI Systems
Lorenz Kutschka, Bernhard Geiger · 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
- LamPO: A Lambda Style Policy Optimization for Reasoning Language Models
Zhe Yuan, Yipeng Zhou, Jinghan Li, Xinyuan Chen, Bowen Deng · May 20, 2026 · Citations: 0
- HINT-SD: Targeted Hindsight Self-Distillation for Long-Horizon Agents
Woongyeng Yeo, Yumin Choi, Taekyung Ki, Sung Ju Hwang · May 18, 2026 · Citations: 0
- TIER: Trajectory-Invariant Execution Rewards for Multi-Step Tool Composition
Anay Kulkarni, ChiaEn Lu, Dheeraj Mekala, Jayanth Srinivasa, Gaowen Liu · May 16, 2026 · Citations: 0
- FocuSFT: Bilevel Optimization for Dilution-Aware Long-Context Fine-Tuning
Zehua Pei, Hui-Ling Zhen, Xianzhi Yu, Sinno Jialin Pan, Mingxuan Yuan · May 11, 2026 · Citations: 0
- The Metacognitive Probe: Five Behavioural Calibration Diagnostics for LLMs
Rafael C. T. Oliveira · May 11, 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
- RVPO: Risk-Sensitive Alignment via Variance Regularization
Ivan Montero, Tomasz Jurczyk, Bhuwan Dhingra · May 7, 2026 · Citations: 0
- RAG over Thinking Traces Can Improve Reasoning Tasks
Negar Arabzadeh, Wenjie Ma, Sewon Min, Matei Zaharia · May 5, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Learning to Communicate: Toward End-to-End Optimization of Multi-Agent Language Systems
Ye Yu, Heming Liu, Haibo Jin, Xiaopeng Yuan, Peng Kuang · Apr 23, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Process Supervision via Verbal Critique Improves Reasoning in Large Language Models
Hao-Yuan Chen · Apr 23, 2026 · Citations: 0
- TRACES: Tagging Reasoning Steps for Adaptive Cost-Efficient Early-Stopping
Yannis Belkhiter, Seshu Tirupathi, Giulio Zizzo, John D. Kelleher · Apr 22, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Breaking MCP with Function Hijacking Attacks: Novel Threats for Function Calling and Agentic Models
Yannis Belkhiter, Giulio Zizzo, Sergio Maffeis, Seshu Tirupathi, John D. Kelleher · Apr 22, 2026 · Citations: 0
- CoEvolve: Training LLM Agents via Agent-Data Mutual Evolution
Shidong Yang, Ziyu Ma, Tongwen Huang, Yiming Hu, Yong Wang · Apr 17, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Awakening the Sleeping Agent: Lean-Specific Agentic Data Reactivates General Tool Use in Goedel Prover
Jui-Hui Chung, Hongzhou Lin, Lai Jiang, Shange Tang, Chi Jin · Apr 9, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Sensitivity-Positional Co-Localization in GQA Transformers
Manoj Chandrashekar Rao · Apr 9, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Squeeze Evolve: Unified Multi-Model Orchestration for Verifier-Free Evolution
Monishwaran Maheswaran, Leon Lakhani, Zhongzhu Zhou, Shijia Yang, Junxiong Wang · Apr 9, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Off-Policy Value-Based Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models
Peng-Yuan Wang, Ziniu Li, Tian Xu, Bohan Yang, Tian-Shuo Liu · Mar 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Lie to Me: How Faithful Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Reasoning Models?
Richard J. Young · Mar 23, 2026 · Citations: 0
- TERMINATOR: Learning Optimal Exit Points for Early Stopping in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Alliot Nagle, Jakhongir Saydaliev, Dhia Garbaya, Michael Gastpar, Ashok Vardhan Makkuva · Mar 13, 2026 · Citations: 0
- PostTrainBench: Can LLM Agents Automate LLM Post-Training?
Ben Rank, Hardik Bhatnagar, Ameya Prabhu, Shira Eisenberg, Karina Nguyen · Mar 9, 2026 · Citations: 0
- CHIMERA: Compact Synthetic Data for Generalizable LLM Reasoning
Xinyu Zhu, Yihao Feng, Yanchao Sun, Xianzhi Du, Pingzhi Li · Mar 1, 2026 · Citations: 0
- LLM Compression by Block Removal with Constrained Binary Optimization
David Jansen, Roman Rausch, Ali Hashemi, David Montero, Román Orús · Jan 29, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Beyond Max Tokens: Stealthy Resource Amplification via Tool Calling Chains in LLM Agents
Kaiyu Zhou, Yongsen Zheng, Yicheng He, Meng Xue, Xueluan Gong · Jan 16, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Remember Me, Refine Me: A Dynamic Procedural Memory Framework for Experience-Driven Agent Evolution
Zouying Cao, Jiaji Deng, Li Yu, Weikang Zhou, Zhaoyang Liu · Dec 11, 2025 · Citations: 0
- Top-H Decoding: Adapting the Creativity and Coherence with Bounded Entropy in Text Generation
Erfan Baghaei Potraghloo, Seyedarmin Azizi, Souvik Kundu, Massoud Pedram · Sep 2, 2025 · Citations: 0