- Step 3.5 Flash: Open Frontier-Level Intelligence with 11B Active Parameters
Ailin Huang, Ang Li, Aobo Kong, Bin Wang, Binxing Jiao · Feb 11, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference
We introduce Step 3.5 Flash, a sparse Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model that bridges frontier-level agentic intelligence and computational efficiency.
- $V_1$: Unifying Generation and Self-Verification for Parallel Reasoners
Harman Singh, Xiuyu Li, Kusha Sareen, Monishwaran Maheswaran, Sijun Tan · Mar 4, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics
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…
- Duel-Evolve: Reward-Free Test-Time Scaling via LLM Self-Preferences
Sweta Karlekar, Carolina Zheng, Magnus Saebo, Nicolas Beltran-Velez, Shuyang Yu · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics
Building on this observation, we introduce Duel-Evolve, an evolutionary optimization algorithm that replaces external scalar rewards with pairwise preferences elicited from the same LLM used to generate candidates.
- Entropy trajectory shape predicts LLM reasoning reliability: A diagnostic study of uncertainty dynamics in chain-of-thought
Xinghao Zhao · Mar 19, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics
Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning improves LLM accuracy, yet detecting failures cheaply remains elusive.
- Team of Thoughts: Efficient Test-time Scaling of Agentic Systems through Orchestrated Tool Calling
Jeffrey T. H. Wong, Zixi Zhang, Junyi Liu, Yiren Zhao · Feb 18, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics
Existing Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) typically rely on homogeneous model configurations, failing to exploit the diverse expertise inherent in different post-trained architectures.
- RASPRef: Retrieval-Augmented Self-Supervised Prompt Refinement for Large Reasoning Models
Rahul Soni · Mar 27, 2026 · Citations: 0
Critique Edit
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
Pairwise Preference Human Eval
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…
- Stabilizing Iterative Self-Training with Verified Reasoning via Symbolic Recursive Self-Alignment
Xinyu Zhang · Mar 23, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics
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
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics
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
Pairwise PreferenceCritique Edit Automatic Metrics
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…
- Don't Overthink It: Inter-Rollout Action Agreement as a Free Adaptive-Compute Signal for LLM Agents
Khushal Sethi · Apr 9, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics
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
Automatic Metrics
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…
- 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
Automatic Metrics
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
Automatic Metrics
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
Automatic Metrics
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…
- 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
Automatic Metrics
Empirical results on the PRM800K dataset show that HRM, together with HNC, provides more stable and reliable evaluations than PRM.
- Critique-Coder: Enhancing Coder Models by Critique Reinforcement Learning
Chi Ruan, Dongfu Jiang, Yubo Wang, Wenhu Chen · Sep 26, 2025 · Citations: 0
Critique Edit
We fine-tune multiple models (Critique-Coder) and evaluate them on different benchmarks to show their advantages over RL-only models.
- 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
- Pause or Fabricate? Training Language Models for Grounded Reasoning
Yiwen Qiu, Linjuan Wu, Yizhou Liu, Yuchen Yan, Jin Ma · Apr 21, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Does Self-Consistency Improve the Recall of Encyclopedic Knowledge?
Sho Hoshino, Ukyo Honda, Peinan Zhang · Apr 21, 2026 · Citations: 0
- CoAct: Co-Active LLM Preference Learning with Human-AI Synergy
Ruiyao Xu, Mihir Parmar, Tiankai Yang, Zhengyu Hu, Yue Zhao · Apr 19, 2026 · Citations: 0
- AtManRL: Towards Faithful Reasoning via Differentiable Attention Saliency
Max Henning Höth, Kristian Kersting, Björn Deiseroth, Letitia Parcalabescu · Apr 17, 2026 · Citations: 0
- StoryCoder: Narrative Reformulation for Structured Reasoning in LLM Code Generation
Geonhui Jang, Dongyoon Han, YoungJoon Yoo · Apr 16, 2026 · Citations: 0
- CollabCoder: Plan-Code Co-Evolution via Collaborative Decision-Making for Efficient Code Generation
Duy Tung Doan, Quang Huy Phung, Dzung Nguyen, Khac-Hoai Nam Bui · Apr 15, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Think in Sentences: Explicit Sentence Boundaries Enhance Language Model's Capabilities
Zhichen Liu, Yongyuan Li, Yang Xu · Apr 11, 2026 · Citations: 0
- DMax: Aggressive Parallel Decoding for dLLMs
Zigeng Chen, Gongfan Fang, Xinyin Ma, Ruonan Yu, Xinchao Wang · Apr 9, 2026 · Citations: 0
- TEMPER: Testing Emotional Perturbation in Quantitative Reasoning
Atahan Dokme, Benjamin Reichman, Larry Heck · 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
- Beyond the Assistant Turn: User Turn Generation as a Probe of Interaction Awareness in Language Models
Sarath Shekkizhar, Romain Cosentino, Adam Earle · Apr 2, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Is Mathematical Problem-Solving Expertise in Large Language Models Associated with Assessment Performance?
Liang Zhang, Yu Fu, Xinyi Jin · Mar 26, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Cross-Model Disagreement as a Label-Free Correctness Signal
Matt Gorbett, Suman Jana · Mar 26, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Efficient Detection of Bad Benchmark Items with Novel Scalability Coefficients
Michael Hardy, Joshua Gilbert, Benjamin Domingue · Mar 26, 2026 · Citations: 0
- How to Fine-Tune a Reasoning Model? A Teacher-Student Cooperation Framework to Synthesize Student-Consistent SFT Data
Zixian Huang, Kaichen Yang, Xu Huang, Feiyang Hao, Qiming Ge · Mar 23, 2026 · Citations: 0
- NeuroLoRA: Context-Aware Neuromodulation for Parameter-Efficient Multi-Task Adaptation
Yuxin Yang, Haoran Zhang, Mingxuan Li, Jiachen Xu, Ruoxi Shen · Mar 12, 2026 · Citations: 0
- In-Context Environments Induce Evaluation-Awareness in Language Models
Maheep Chaudhary · Mar 4, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Reliability-Aware Adaptive Self-Consistency for Efficient Sampling in LLM Reasoning
Junseok Kim, Nakyeong Yang, Kyungmin Min, Kyomin Jung · Jan 6, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Training Language Models to Use Prolog as a Tool
Niklas Mellgren, Peter Schneider-Kamp, Lukas Galke Poech · Dec 8, 2025 · Citations: 0
- SPG: Sandwiched Policy Gradient for Masked Diffusion Language Models
Chenyu Wang, Paria Rashidinejad, DiJia Su, Song Jiang, Sid Wang · Oct 10, 2025 · Citations: 0
- Bridging Draft Policy Misalignment: Group Tree Optimization for Speculative Decoding
Shijing Hu, Jingyang Li, Zhihui Lu, Pan Zhou · Sep 26, 2025 · Citations: 0
- Strategic Scaling of Test-Time Compute: A Bandit Learning Approach
Bowen Zuo, Yinglun Zhu · Jun 15, 2025 · Citations: 0
- SEW: Self-Evolving Agentic Workflows for Automated Code Generation
Siwei Liu, Jinyuan Fang, Han Zhou, Yingxu Wang, Zaiqiao Meng · May 24, 2025 · Citations: 0
- LoRA-FA: Efficient and Effective Low Rank Representation Fine-tuning
Longteng Zhang, Lin Zhang, Shaohuai Shi, Xiaowen Chu, Bo Li · Aug 7, 2023 · Citations: 0