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  1. When Chain-of-Thought Fails, the Solution Hides in the Hidden States

    Apr 25, 2026Houman Mehrafarin, Amit Parekh, Ioannis KonstasTransformer InterpretabilityCoT Reasoning

    Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom · University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  2. CAP-CoT: Cycle Adversarial Prompt for Improving Chain of Thoughts in LLM Reasoning

    Apr 25, 2026Shuxu Chen, Yitian Zhou, Jiaquan Zhang +6Adversarial Prompt GenerationLLM Prompting

    Department of Electronics and Information Convergence Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China · East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, China +1

  3. Calibration Drift Under Reasoning: How Chain-of-Thought Budgets Induce Overconfidence in Large Language Models

    Apr 24, 2026Prakul Sunil Hiremath, Harshit R. HiremathConfidence Estimation in Language ModelsCoT Reasoning

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering Visvesvaraya Technological University, Belagavi · Department of Computer Science and Business System SG Balekundri Institute of Technology, Belagavi

  4. Reasoning Primitives in Hybrid and Non-Hybrid LLMs: Do Architectural Differences Yield Advantages in State-Tracking and Recall?

    Apr 23, 2026Shivam Rawat, Lucie Flek, Florian Mai +1CoT ReasoningLLM Memory

    Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence · Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

  5. VG-CoT: Towards Trustworthy Visual Reasoning via Grounded Chain-of-Thought

    Apr 23, 2026Byeonggeuk Lim, Kyeonghyun Kim, JungMin Yun +1VLM EvaluationCoT Reasoning

    Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film, Chung-Ang University1 · Department of Artificial Intelligence, Chung-Ang University2

  6. Less Languages, Less Tokens: An Efficient Unified Logic Cross-lingual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Framework

    Apr 22, 2026Chenyuan Zhang, Qiguang Chen, Xie Chen +6Cross-Lingual Reasoning in Language ModelsCoT Reasoning

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen · Shanghai Innovation Institute · Central South University +3

  7. Does Self-Consistency Improve the Recall of Encyclopedic Knowledge?

    Apr 21, 2026Sho Hoshino, Ukyo Honda, Peinan ZhangSelf-Consistency DecodingCoT Reasoning

    CyberAgent

  8. More Thinking, More Bias: Length-Driven Position Bias in Reasoning Models

    Apr 21, 2026Xiao WangMultiple-Choice Question AnsweringCoT Reasoning

  9. PRISMA: Preference-Reinforced Self-Training Approach for Interpretable Emotionally Intelligent Negotiation Dialogues

    Apr 20, 2026Prajwal Vijay Kajare, Priyanshu Priya, Bikash Santra +1Automated NegotiationCoT Reasoning

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India

  10. ContraPrompt: Contrastive Prompt Optimization via Dyadic Reasoning Trace Analysis

    Apr 20, 2026Rishav Rishav, Pushpak Pujari, Pushpendre RastogiPairwise ComparisonCoT Reasoning

    Vizops AI

  11. Learning to Correct: Calibrated Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Attempt Chain-of-Thought

    Apr 20, 2026Muhammed Emrullah Ildiz, Halil Alperen Gozeten, Ege Onur Taga +1CoT ReasoningRL for Language Model Reasoning

    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor · Google Research

  12. Self-Consistency from Only Two Samples: CoT-PoT Ensembling for Efficient LLM Reasoning

    Apr 19, 2026Raman Saparkhan, Majd Hawasly, Md Rizwan Parvez +1LLM Inference EfficiencySelf-Consistency Decoding

    Carnegie Mellon University Qatar · Qatar Computing Research Institute

  13. Clover: A Neural-Symbolic Agentic Harness with Stochastic Tree-of-Thoughts for Verified RTL Repair

    Apr 19, 2026Zizhang Luo, Yansong Xu, Runlin Guo +6Automated Program RepairTree of Thoughts

    Peking University

  14. LLM Reasoning Is Latent, Not the Chain of Thought

    Apr 17, 2026Wenshuo WangLLM InterpretabilityCoT Reasoning

    School of Future Technology, South China University of Technology, China

  15. MemoSight: Unifying Context Compression and Multi Token Prediction for Reasoning Acceleration

    Apr 16, 2026Xinyu Liu, Xin Liu, Bo Jin +8Multi-Token PredictionKV Caching

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, China · Meituan Inc. · NiuTrans Research, Shenyang, China

  16. Analyzing Chain of Thought (CoT) Approaches in Control Flow Code Deobfuscation Tasks

    Apr 16, 2026Seyedreza Mohseni, Sarvesh Baskar, Edward Raff +1Software Reverse EngineeringCoT Reasoning

    University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, USA · CrowdStrike, New York, USA

  17. On the Expressive Power and Limitations of Multi-Layer SSMs

    Apr 16, 2026Nikola Zubić, Qian Li, Yuyi Wang +1CoT ReasoningState Space Models

    Robotics and Perception Group University of Zurich · Shenzhen International Center For Industrial And Applied Mathematics Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data · Tengen Intelligence Institute2026 CRRC Zhuzhou Institute

  18. Correct Prediction, Wrong Steps? Consensus Reasoning Knowledge Graph for Robust Chain-of-Thought Synthesis

    Apr 15, 2026Zipeng Ling, Shuliang Liu, Seonil Son +4Logical ReasoningSelf-Consistency Decoding

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · University of Alberta · Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute +3

  19. Learning When to Sample: Confidence-Aware Selective Sampling for Efficient Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

    Mar 9, 2026Juming Xiong, Kevin Guo, Congning Ni +7CoT ReasoningEfficient Language Model Reasoning

    1Vanderbilt University · 2Vanderbilt University Medical Center · 3Intuit AI Research

  20. Measuring and Mitigating Post-hoc Rationalization in Reverse Chain-of-Thought Generation

    Feb 16, 2026Guangyue Peng, Zongchao Chen, Wen Luo +9CoT DistillationCoT Reasoning

    State Key Laboratory of Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, Peking University · Nanbeige Lab, BOSS Zhipin · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

  21. Divide-and-Conquer CoT: RL for Reducing Latency via Parallel Reasoning

    Jan 30, 2026Arvind Mahankali, Kaiyue Wen, Tengyu MaMulti-Agent LLM SystemsCoT Reasoning

    Stanford University

  22. Triggering Chain-of-Thought via Latent Feature Interventions in Large Language Models

    Jan 12, 2026Zhenghao He, Guangzhi Xiong, Bohan Liu +2LLM InterpretabilityCoT Reasoning

    University of Virginia, USA

  23. Stepwise Think-Critique: Interleaved Reasoning and Self-Critique in a Single LLM

    Dec 17, 2025Jiaqi Xu, Cuiling Lan, Xuejin Chen +1LLM Self-CorrectionCoT Reasoning

    University of Science and Technology of China · ⋆This work was done when Jiaqi was an intern at MSRA. · Microsoft Research Asia

  24. Deductive Logic in Language Models: Horizontal vs Vertical Reasoning

    Oct 10, 2025Davide Maltoni, Matteo FerraraTransformer InterpretabilityCoT Reasoning

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Italy

  25. Learning Composable Chains-of-Thought

    May 28, 2025Fangcong Yin, Zeyu Leo Liu, Liu Leqi +2LLM Fine-TuningCoT Reasoning

    The University of Texas at Austin · Princeton University

  26. Reasoning Beyond Language: A Comprehensive Survey on Latent Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

    May 22, 2025Xinghao Chen, Anhao Zhao, Heming Xia +7CoT ReasoningLLM Reasoning

    Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · Ningbo Digital Twin Institute, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, China

  27. HoT: Highlighted Chain of Thought for Referencing Supporting Facts from Inputs

    Mar 3, 2025Tin Nguyen, Logan Bolton, Mohammad Reza Taesiri +2LLM GroundingLLM Answer Verification

    Auburn University · University of Alberta

  28. The relationship between reasoning and performance in large language models--o3 (mini) thinks harder, not longer

    Feb 21, 2025Marthe Ballon, Andres Algaba, Vincent GinisCoT ReasoningEfficient Language Model Reasoning

    Data Analytics Lab, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel 1050, Belgium · School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA

  29. Few shot chain-of-thought driven reasoning to prompt LLMs for open ended medical question answering

    Mar 7, 2024Saeel Sandeep Nachane, Ojas Gramopadhye, Prateek Chanda +5HealthcareMedical Diagnosis

    2Indian Institute of Technology Bombay · 1IBM Research

  30. Amortizing intractable inference in large language models

    Oct 6, 2023Edward J. Hu, Moksh Jain, Eric Elmoznino +4Amortized InferenceLLM Fine-Tuning

    Mila – Quebec AI Institute, Universit´e de Montr´eal · University of Oxford