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  1. Plan Canvas: Fixed Reasoning Regions for Continuous Language Flows

    Oct 5, 2026Miaohe Niu, Pengxiang Li, Jingbo Zhu +1LLM Reasoning with GraphsCoT Reasoning

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, China · Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China · NiuTrans Research, Shenyang, China

  2. Spend Bytes on Breadth: Precision-Count Trade-offs for Decode-Time KV Compression in Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

    Oct 5, 2026Runguo LiCoT ReasoningKV-Cache Eviction

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  3. Agentic AI with Structured CoT for Enhancing AI's Spatial Intelligence: Visualization and Reasoning of Rotation

    Oct 3, 2026Uttamasha Monjoree, Wei YanSpatial Reasoning Benchmarks3D Spatial Reasoning

    Department of Architecture Texas A&M University College Station, USA

  4. Cog-VADU: A Training-Free Cognitive Reasoning Framework for Video Anomaly Detection and Understanding

    Oct 1, 2026Mohd Ubaid Wani, Sara Atito, Josef Kittler +1CoT ReasoningInterpretable Anomaly Detection

    Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP) University of Surrey, UK · Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI (PAI) University of Surrey, UK

  5. RATIO: Reasoning Analysis and Token-level Inference Optimization for Quantized Reasoning Models

    Sep 30, 2026Chengzhu Bao, Xianglong Yan, Tianao Zhang +3LLM QuantizationOverthinking in Language Models

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  6. Structure vs. Chain-of-Thought: Evaluating LLM Criteria Extraction for Depression Severity

    Sep 30, 2026Xinkai ChenDepression DetectionCoT Reasoning

    Independent Researcher

  7. Targeted Retrieval, Compact Representations: How CoT Reasoning Improves Long-Context Counting

    Sep 30, 2026Liang Twist Shan, Tianyu Hu, Hao Yan +1Numerical Reasoning in Language ModelsLong-Context Retrieval

    Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison · Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison

  8. Reasoning Instructions Can Break Answer Decoding in Vision--Language Models

    Sep 24, 2026Zeyan Li, Siyuan Qiu, Jianfeng XuVLM EvaluationLanguage Model Generation Evaluation

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  9. LEGO: Synergizing Expert GraphRAG and Expert Chain-of-Thought for Legal Reasoning

    Sep 22, 2026Qingjing Chen, Junkai Zhang, Shaochun Wang +7LLM Reasoning with GraphsGraph Retrieval-Augmented Generation

    Alma AI, University of Bologna, Italy · Tsinghua University, China · Modelbest Inc. +2

  10. Capable yet Parsimonious: Extracting and Characterizing Hidden Chain-of-Thought in Frontier Models

    Sep 22, 2026Xiaoyu Luo, Tao Ren, Wenrui Yu +3LLM InterpretabilityCoT Reasoning

    Department of Computer Science Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark · Department of Electronic Systems Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark · Seafill

  11. Syndrome, Synergy, and Safety: Structured Reasoning and Knowledge-Driven Alignment for TCM Prescription Generation

    Sep 22, 2026Zheng Chen, ZhiCheng Du, Haoxuan Li +1LLM AlignmentCoT Reasoning

    Tsinghua University · Guangdong Provincial Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Hengqin

  12. Assessing Readability with LLMs: The Role of Reasoning and Few-Shot Prompting

    Sep 21, 2026Raphaël Thieffry, Matej MartincCoT ReasoningFew-Shot Learning

    Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France · Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

  13. Learn Your Own Thoughts: Abstract Token Curriculum

    Sep 17, 2026Khashayar Gatmiry, Avrajit Ghosh, Parsa Mirtaheri +4CoT ReasoningCurriculum Learning

    UC San Diego · Google DeepMind and UC Berkeley

  14. Do Reasoning Representations Help Humans Evaluate LLM Outputs?

    Sep 8, 2026Jaewoo Lim, Sungbok Shin, Sanghyun HongLLM EvaluationLLM Interpretability

    Oregon State University, Corvallis USA · Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea

  15. </think> Doesn't Stop Reasoning: Analysis of Spurious CoT Termination

    Sep 3, 2026Seunghee Koh, Sungjae Choi, Minchan Kwon +2CoT ReasoningEfficient Language Model Reasoning

    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea

  16. The Gradient Does Not See Rank: Rank-Indifference in Matrix-CODI on ProsQA

    Sep 2, 2026Samuel LarsonCoT ReasoningLow-Rank Approximation

    Pebble ML

  17. Trace as State: Reasoning Traces as Conditional States for Long-Context Transformers

    Sep 2, 2026Xu Zou, Jie TangLong-Context InferenceCoT Reasoning

    Tsinghua University

  18. Towards Physics-Faithful Generation of Scientific Diagrams

    Aug 13, 2026Minghui Zhang, Jinxin Shi, Yifan Chang +12Scientific VisualizationCoT Reasoning

    Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Shanghai, China · Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

  19. SCOUT: Unlocking Enhanced Spatial Reasoning via Structured Chain-of-Thought and Multi-Objective Process Reward

    Aug 12, 2026Zile Zhou, Huining Yuan, Weichen Zhang +2Visual Spatial ReasoningProcess Reward Models

    Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China

  20. Chain-of-Thought Shows the Path to a Tree: Realizing Branching Complexity

    Aug 12, 2026Debanjan Dutta, Anish Chakrabarty, Swagatam DasCoT Reasoning

    Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, India · LTCI, Télécom Paris Palaiseau, France

  21. INSIDE the Student's Mind: Jointly Modeling Latent Reasoning and Action in LLM Student Simulators

    Aug 11, 2026Rose Niousha, Minwoo Kang, Narges NorouziLLM Fine-TuningCoT Reasoning

    Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California, Berkeley

  22. Thinking vs. NoThinking: Towards Interpreting Reasoning Mechanisms of Large Language Models via Sparse Autoencoders

    Aug 8, 2026Bo Cheng, Qiaolin Lu, Yi Chang +1LLM InterpretabilityCoT Reasoning

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University Engineering Research Center of Knowledge-Driven Human-Machine Intelligence, MOE, China +1

  23. PhysX-CoT: Structured Physical Reasoning from a Single Image to Simulation-Ready 3D Assets

    Aug 8, 2026Jie Huang, Xiaohe Li, Jiahao Li +6Part-Level 3D GenerationPhysical Reasoning

    the Key Laboratory of Target Cognition and Application Technology Aerospace Information Research Institute Chinese Academy of Sciences · School of Artificial Intelligence Shanghai Jiaotong University · Space Engineering University

  24. Answer First, Reason Later: Commitment Order in Diffusion LLMs

    Aug 6, 2026Jewon Yeom, Jaewon Sok, Seonghyeon Park +3CoT ReasoningDiffusion Language Model Decoding

    Graduate School of Data Science, Seoul National University · Department of Rural Systems Engineering, Seoul National University · Department of Aerospace Engineering, Seoul National University

  25. NTDH: Complex Reasoning for Comprehensive Affective Analysis

    Aug 5, 2026Tianlei Zhu, Zhiwei Liu, Yuyan Wang +2CoT ReasoningAffective Computing

    Columbia University, New York, NY, USA · Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom

  26. Protoreasoning in Tiny Transformers

    Aug 5, 2026Eduardo Valle, Fergal ReidCoT ReasoningOOD Generalization

    Fin AI Research

  27. Soft Guidance Starts to Outperform CoT Prompting as LLMs Improve

    Aug 4, 2026Denys Pushkin, Albert Q. Jiang, Aryo Lotfi +2LLM PromptingCoT Reasoning

    EPFL · Apple · Mistral AI

  28. Cybersecurity Detection Classification with Reasoning-enabled Language Models

    Jul 30, 2026Amol Khanna, Manu Nandan, Cristian Viorel Popa +10CoT ReasoningLanguage Model Calibration

    CrowdStrike

  29. Credit Cards, Confusion, Computation, and Consequences: What Can We Uncover About Language Model Reasoning?

    Jul 29, 2026Arnav Hiray, Agam Shah, Caleb Lu +3Numerical Reasoning in Language ModelsFinancial Services

    College of Computing & Scheller College of Business Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

  30. FAS-R1: A Unified Multi-Task MLLM for Reasoning Face Anti-Spoofing

    Jul 29, 2026Hongyang Wang, Yichen Shi, Hongrui Li +3CoT ReasoningGroup Relative Policy Optimization

    Shijiazhuang Tiedao University · Fudan University · Shanghai Jiao Tong University +2

  31. REFACT: Adaptive Fact Restatement for Compact and Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

    Jul 23, 2026Zhensheng Jin, Xin Dai, Zhenghao Liu +5LLM GroundingLong-Context QA

    Northeastern University · Shenyang, China · Tsinghua University +1

  32. Cognitive Dual-Process Planning for Autonomous Driving with Structured Scene Knowledge and Verifiable Reasoning-Action Consistency

    Jul 21, 2026Zhongyao Yang, Haoyu Li, Yu Yan +3VLMs for Autonomous DrivingCoT Reasoning

    School of Mechanical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, Beijing, China · National Engineering Research Center of Electric Vehicles, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, Beijing, China · School of Mechanical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, 211189, Jiangsu, China +1

  33. A Geometric Perspective on Stabilizing Value Conflict Resolution

    Jul 20, 2026Saket Reddy, Andy LiuLLM AlignmentMoral Reasoning in Language Models

    Supervised Program for Alignment Research (SPAR) · University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign · Carnegie Mellon University

  34. Training Continuous Chain of Thought Models: A Tale of Two Regimes

    Jul 18, 2026Varun Yerram, He He, Eunsol ChoiCoT ReasoningContinuous Latent Reasoning

    Center for Data Science, New York University

  35. When Reasoning Hurts Legal Drafting: The Verbalization Bottleneck in Patent Claim Generation

    Jul 11, 2026Lekang Jiang, Wenjun Sun, Stephan GoetzLLM PromptingCoT Reasoning

    University of Cambridge · National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Department of Information Resources Management, School of Economics and Management, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

  36. Structured Thoughts For Improved Reasoning And Context Pruning

    Jul 11, 2026Zain Sarwar, Supriyo Chakraborty, Berkcan Kapusuzoglu +5CoT ReasoningEfficient Language Model Reasoning

    University of Chicago · Capital One

  37. The Optimal Sample Complexity of Learning Autoregressive Chain-of-Thought

    Jul 8, 2026Zhiyuan LiCoT ReasoningPAC Learning

    Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

  38. Purified OPSD: On-Policy Self-Distillation Without Losing How to Think

    Jul 2, 2026Zhanming Shen, Jintao Tong, Shaotian Yan +9CoT DistillationOn-Policy Self-Distillation

    1Zhejiang University · 2Tongyi Lab, Alibaba Group · 3Huazhong University of Science and Technology +1

  39. Revisiting Chain-of-Thought Reasoning under Limited Supervision: Semi-supervised Chain-of-Thought Learning

    Jul 1, 2026Hongyang He, Jiuming Liu, Victor SanchezSelf-Training for Language ModelsCoT Reasoning

    University of Warwick · University of Cambridge

  40. Bridging the Gap Between Latent and Explicit Reasoning with Looped Transformers

    Jun 30, 2026Ying Fan, Anej Svete, Kangwook LeeCoT ReasoningRecurrent Transformers

    Microsoft Research · 2ETH Zürich · 3KRAFTON +1

  41. Does Verbose Chain-of-Thought Really Help? In-Distribution Evidence that Content, Not Length, Matters

    Jun 29, 2026Wenlong Wang, Fergal ReidLLM PromptingCoT Reasoning

    Fin AI Research

  42. Latent-CURE for Breast Cancer Diagnosis

    Jun 29, 2026Weiyi Zhao, Xiaoyu Tan, Lu Gan +2Breast CancerLong-Tail Learning

    School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Shanghai University of Engineering Science, Shanghai 201620, China · Tencent YouTu Lab, Shanghai 200232, China · Integrative Clinical Research Ward, Clinical Medicine Research Institute, Zhongshan Hospital, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, China

  43. Do Models Read What They Write? Causal Registers in Scratchpad Reasoning

    Jun 28, 2026Benjamin Shih, John Winnicki, Eric DarveCoT FaithfulnessCoT Reasoning

    Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering Stanford University

  44. Improving General Role-Playing Agents via Psychology-Grounded Reasoning and Role-Aware Policy Optimization

    Jun 25, 2026Zhenhua Xu, Dongsheng Chen, Jian Li +7Large Language Model-Based Role-Play SimulationPersonality Modeling in Language Models

    1Zhejiang University · 2Tencent Youtu Lab

  45. Where Do CoT Training Gains Land in LLM based Agents?

    Jun 25, 2026Jingyu Liu, Zhiwen Wang, Yuxin Jing +2CoT ReasoningLLM Agents

    Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence Renmin University of China, Beijing, China · ByteDance · Beijing Key Laboratory of Research on Large Models and Intelligent Governance +1

  46. Do Safety Guardrails Need to Reason? LeanGuard: A Fast and Light Approach for Robust Moderation

    Jun 25, 2026Dongbin NaLLM GuardrailsCoT Reasoning

    POSTECH

  47. ISCSLP 2026 CoT-TTS Challenge: Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Context-Aware Text-to-Speech

    Jun 20, 2026Wei Xue, Junlan Feng, Shilei Zhang +9TTS SynthesisTTS Evaluation

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · China Mobile · Jiutian Artificial Intelligence Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd., China Mobile +3

  48. MammoExpert: Benchmarking Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Mammography Diagnosis

    Jun 19, 2026Di Dai, Bo Liu, Youcheng Li +9Medical ImagingCoT Reasoning

    State Key Laboratory of General Artificial Intelligence, School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Peking University Beijing, China · School of Computer Science and Engineer, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Beijing, China · Center for Data Science, Peking University Beijing, China +5

  49. Efficiently Representing Algorithms With Chain-of-Thought Transformers

    Jun 18, 2026Yanhong Li, Anej Svete, Ashish Sabharwal +1TransformerCoT Reasoning

    Allen Institute for AI · ETH Zürich

  50. Beyond Visual Cues: CoT-Enhanced Reasoning for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation

    Jun 16, 2026Yuming Chen, Yuxin Xie, Tao Zhou +1CoT ReasoningSemi-Supervised Medical Image Segmentation

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China · Key Laboratory of New Generation Artificial Intelligence Technology and Its Interdisciplinary Applications, Ministry of Education, Nanjing, China · Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

  51. Robust Dual-Signal Fusion: Hybrid Neuro-Symbolic Gating with Compressed Chain-of-Thought Refinement for Irony Detection in Social Media Texts

    Jun 15, 2026Ankit Bhattacharjee, Krityapriya BhaumikCoT ReasoningNeuro-Symbolic Reasoning

    Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India

  52. Free Energy Heuristics: Fast-And-Frugal Cognition as Active Inference Under Uncertain Precision

    Jun 14, 2026Alex BogdanCognitive ModelingActive Inference

    Evolutionairy AI Toronto, Canada

  53. ttda704 at SemEval-2026 Task 6: Structured Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Political Evasion Detection

    Jun 14, 2026Tai Tran Tan, An Dinh ThienCoT ReasoningPragmatic Reasoning in Language Models

    University of Information Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  54. RoboPIN: Grounded Embodied Reasoning via Pinned Chain-of-Thought

    Jun 14, 2026Yaoting Huang, Yifu Yuan, Linqi Han +6Visual Spatial ReasoningCoT Reasoning

    1Tianjin University

  55. Integrating Reasoning and Generalization in Text-to-SQL via Self-Enhanced Fine-Tuning

    Jun 14, 2026Feng Lyu, Jinfeng Cen, Sijing Duan +4Self-Training for Language ModelsLLM Fine-Tuning

    Central South University · Tsinghua University · Nanjing University +1

  56. CoRA: Confidence-Rationale Alignment for Reliable Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

    Jun 12, 2026Juming Xiong, Weixin Liu, Kevin Guo +9CoT ReasoningRL for Language Model Reasoning

    Vanderbilt University · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Intuit AI Research

  57. The Periodic Table of LLM Reasoning: A Structured Survey of Reasoning Paradigms, Methods, and Failure Modes

    Jun 9, 2026Avinash Anand, Mahisha Ramesh, Avni Mittal +7CoT ReasoningRL for Language Model Reasoning

    SIT × Nvidia AI Center (SNAIC) · MIDAS Lab, IIIT Delhi · MIDAS Lab, IIT Mandi +4

  58. Tight Sample Complexity of Transformers

    Jun 8, 2026Chenxiao Yang, Nathan Srebro, Zhiyuan LiTransformer ExpressivityTransformer

    Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC)

  59. IS-CoT: Breaking the Long-form Generation Collapse via Interleaved Structural Thinking

    Jun 8, 2026Zechen Sun, Yuyang Sun, Zecheng Tang +6Open-Ended GenerationLong-Form Document Generation

    Institute of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University · 2Information Research Center of Military Science, PLA Academy of Military Science

  60. Sample-Efficient LLM-Based Detection of Malicious Web Server Logs with Forensically Explainable Reasoning

    Jun 7, 2026Bernhard Kneip, Nhien-An Le-Khac, Hong-Hanh Nguyen-LeExplainable Artificial IntelligenceCoT Reasoning