- 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…
- Learning How to Use Tools, Not Just When: Pattern-Aware Tool-Integrated Reasoning
Ningning Xu, Yuxuan Jiang, Shubhashis Roy Dipta, Hengyuan Zhang · Sep 27, 2025 · Citations: 0
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We propose a two-stage framework that first builds code competence from both patterns and then aligns pattern selection with teacher preferences.
- Blockwise Policy-Drift Gating for On-Policy Distillation
Liwen Zheng, Haiyun Jiang · Jun 23, 2026 · Citations: 0
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In a six-variant Qwen3 math reasoning benchmark with a uniform 200-step training budget for all trained variants, we use pass@8 as the primary problem-level solve-rate metric.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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.
- ReCode: Reinforcing Code Generation with Reasoning-Process Rewards
Lishui Fan, Yu Zhang, Mouxiang Chen, Zhongxin Liu · Aug 7, 2025 · Citations: 0
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Additionally, to assess the reward model's discriminative capability in assessing reasoning-process quality, we introduce LiveCodeBench-RewardBench (LCB-RB), a new benchmark comprising preference pairs of superior and inferior reasoning…
- 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
- 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
- Weak-to-Strong Elicitation via Mismatched Wrong Drafts
Wei Deng · May 17, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Minimal-Intervention KV Retention via Set-Conditioned Diversity
Libo Sun, Po-wei Harn, Peixiong He, Xiao Qin · May 14, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Parameter-Efficient Neuroevolution for Diverse LLM Generation: Quality-Diversity Optimization via Prompt Embedding Evolution
Dongxin Guo, Jikun Wu, Siu Ming Yiu · 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
- Unsolvability Ceiling in Multi-LLM Routing: An Empirical Study of Evaluation Artifacts
Saloni Garg, Amit Sagtani · May 8, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Turning the TIDE: Cross-Architecture Distillation for Diffusion Large Language Models
Gongbo Zhang, Wen Wang, Ye Tian, Li Yuan · Apr 29, 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
- MoE-nD: Per-Layer Mixture-of-Experts Routing for Multi-Axis KV Cache Compression
Libo Sun, Peixiong He, Po-Wei Harn, Xiao Qin · Apr 20, 2026 · Citations: 0
- RACER: Retrieval-Augmented Contextual Rapid Speculative Decoding
Zihong Zhang, Zuchao Li, Lefei Zhang, Ping Wang, Hai Zhao · Apr 16, 2026 · Citations: 0
- StoryCoder: Narrative Reformulation for Structured Reasoning in LLM Code Generation
Geonhui Jang, Dongyoon Han, YoungJoon Yoo · Apr 16, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Peer-Predictive Self-Training for Language Model Reasoning
Shi Feng, Hanlin Zhang, Fan Nie, Sham Kakade, Yiling Chen · Apr 14, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Sensitivity-Positional Co-Localization in GQA Transformers
Manoj Chandrashekar Rao · Apr 9, 2026 · Citations: 0
- SortedRL: Accelerating RL Training for LLMs through Online Length-Aware Scheduling
Yiqi Zhang, Huiqiang Jiang, Xufang Luo, Zhihe Yang, Chengruidong Zhang · Mar 24, 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
- In-Context Environments Induce Evaluation-Awareness in Language Models
Maheep Chaudhary · Mar 4, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Tool Verification for Test-Time Reinforcement Learning
Ruotong Liao, Nikolai Röhrich, Xiaohan Wang, Yuhui Zhang, Yasaman Samadzadeh · Mar 2, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Draft-Thinking: Learning Efficient Reasoning in Long Chain-of-Thought LLMs
Jie Cao, Tianwei Lin, Zhenxuan Fan, Bo Yuan, Ziyuan Zhao · Feb 28, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Distribution-Aware Companding Quantization of Large Language Models
Athul Radhakrishnan, Siddhant Mohan, Mahima Sachdeva · Feb 27, 2026 · Citations: 0
- TRIM: Hybrid Inference via Targeted Stepwise Routing in Multi-Step Reasoning Tasks
Vansh Kapoor, Aman Gupta, Hao Chen, Anurag Beniwal, Jing Huang · Jan 15, 2026 · Citations: 0
- PILOT: Planning via Internalized Latent Optimization Trajectories for Large Language Models
Haoyu Zheng, Yun Zhu, Yuqian Yuan, Bo Yuan, Wenqiao Zhang · Jan 7, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Self-Consistency Is Losing Its Edge: Diminishing Returns and Rising Costs in Modern LLMs
Chiyan Loo · Nov 2, 2025 · Citations: 0
- Merlin's Whisper: Enabling Efficient Reasoning in Large Language Models via Black-box Persuasive Prompting
Heming Xia, Cunxiao Du, Rui Li, Chak Tou Leong, Yongqi Li · Oct 12, 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
- PiCSAR: Probabilistic Confidence Selection And Ranking for Reasoning Chains
Joshua Ong Jun Leang, Zheng Zhao, Aryo Pradipta Gema, Sohee Yang, Wai-Chung Kwan · Aug 29, 2025 · Citations: 0
- SafeSieve: From Heuristics to Experience in Progressive Pruning for LLM-based Multi-Agent Communication
Ruijia Zhang, Xinyan Zhao, Ruixiang Wang, Sigen Chen, Guibin Zhang · Aug 15, 2025 · Citations: 0
- Strategic Scaling of Test-Time Compute: A Bandit Learning Approach
Bowen Zuo, Yinglun Zhu · Jun 15, 2025 · Citations: 0
- Is Human-Like Text Liked by Humans? Multilingual Human Detection and Preference Against AI
Yuxia Wang, Rui Xing, Jonibek Mansurov, Giovanni Puccetti, Zhuohan Xie · Feb 17, 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