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  1. Detecting Differences Is Not Understanding Structure: Large Language Models Fail at Graph Isomorphism

    Jun 8, 2026Kumar Thushalika, Sukumar Kishanthan, Asela HevapathigeLarge Language Model PerformanceReasoning Benchmark

  2. A Finetuned SpeechLLM for Joint Multi-Granular L2 Assessment and Natural-Language Rationales

    Jun 8, 2026Aditya Kamlesh Parikh, Cristian Tejedor-Garcia, Catia Cucchiarini +1Speech Large Language ModelsRationales

  3. TheoremBench: Evaluating LLMs on Theorem Proving in Formal Mathematics

    Jun 8, 2026QuocViet Pham, Elvir Karimov, Andrey Galichin +1TheoremReasoning Benchmark

  4. Capacity, Not Format: Rethinking Structured Reasoning Failures

    Jun 8, 2026Hengxin FanReasoning FailuresCapacity

  5. Visual Para-Thinker++: A Single-Policy Multi-Agent Framework for Visual Reasoning

    Jun 8, 2026Haoran Xu, Hongyu Wang, Yifei Gao +4Multi-Agent ReasoningVisual Reasoning

  6. Temporal-Aware Reasoning Optimization for Video Temporal Grounding

    Jun 8, 2026Minghang Zheng, Zihao Yin, Yi Yang +2Video Temporal GroundingTemporal Grounding

  7. SEF-CLGC at SemEval-2026 Task 11: Logical Notation Impact on Language Model Performance

    Jun 8, 2026Hanna Abi Akl, Fabien Gandon, Catherine Faron +1Large Language Model Reasoning

  8. CRANE: Knowledge Editing for Reasoning MLLMs

    Jun 8, 2026Han Huang, Hao Wang, Mengqi Zhang +3Large Language Model ReasoningLarge Language Model Performance

  9. Diverse Thinking Schemata Elicit Better Reasoning in Large Language Models

    Jun 8, 2026Xinyue Liang, Yizhe Yang, Yu Bai +3Large Reasoning Models

  10. RKSC: Reasoning-Aware KV Cache Sharing and Confident Early Exit for Multi-Step LLM Inference

    Jun 7, 2026Anirudh SekarKv-Cache BlocksLLM Inference Efficiency

  11. Inference-Time Conformal Reasoning with Valid Factuality Control for Large Language Models

    Jun 7, 2026Ting Wang, Yuanjie Shi, Yan Yan +1Large Language Model ReasoningInference-Time

  12. One Lens, Many Worlds : A Capability-Typed Interface for World-Model Interpretability

    Jun 7, 2026Bhavith Chandra Challagundla, Sanskar Pandey, Param Thakkar +7World ModelsModel Interpretability

  13. Artificial Intelligence for Mathematical Reasoning: An Integrated Survey of Language Models, Neuro-symbolic Systems, and Verified Discovery

    Jun 7, 2026Syed Rifat Raiyan, Mohsinul Kabir, Hasan Mahmud +2Mathematical ReasoningMath Problems

  14. Thinking Without Images: Internalizing Visual Manipulation with On-Policy Self-Distillation

    Jun 7, 2026Yishuo Cai, Jiahui Liu, Yuanxin Liu +9Visual ReasoningFine-Grained Perception

  15. AudioProcessBench: Benchmark for Identifying Process Errors in Audio-Grounded Reasoning

    Jun 7, 2026Xiangyu Zhao, Junyu Yan, Yaling Shen +7Audio RepresentationReasoning Traces

  16. Distilling LLM Reasoning into an Interpretable Policy Tree for Human-AI Collaboration

    Jun 7, 2026Beiwen Zhang, Yongheng Liang, Guowei Zou +2Human-Ai CollaborationLarge Language Model Reasoning

  17. Calibration of Structured Ignorance Certificates for Diagnosing Unknown Unknowns in Reasoning Models

    Jun 7, 2026Subramanyam SahooLarge Language Model UncertaintyLarge Reasoning Models

  18. PAEC: Position-Aware Entropy Calibration for LLM Reasoning in RLVR

    Jun 7, 2026Shumeng Yang, Yisu Liu, Jiayi Zheng +2Reinforcement Learning With Verifiable RewardLarge Language Model Reasoning

  19. More Yap Less Meaning: Uncovering Self-Improvement Behavior in SLMs

    Jun 7, 2026Marina Igitkhanian, Erik ArakelyanIterative Self-CorrectionSmall Language Models

  20. TVI-CoT: Text-Visual Interleaved Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Multimodal Understanding

    Jun 7, 2026Lianyu Hu, Xiaoyu Ma, Zeqin Liao +1Large Language Model ReasoningChain-of-Thought Reasoning

  21. Personalized and Robust Proactive Robot Assistance with Uncertainty-Guided LLM Reasoning

    Jun 7, 2026Alvaro Gonzalez, M. H. Hasan Shovo, Ali AyubHuman-Robot InteractionLarge Language Model Uncertainty

  22. TLRD: Teaching LLMs to Reason over Tabular Data with Tri-Level Rationale Distillation

    Jun 6, 2026Tianyuan Liang, Xuwei Tan, Lei Shi +6Table Reasoning DatasetsLarge Language Model Reasoning

  23. Biological Reasoning-Informed Regression for Interpretable Regulatory DNA Activity Prediction

    Jun 6, 2026Yi Duan, Zhao Yang, Jiwei Zhu +3Gene-Regulatory NetworksBiological

  24. Think Before You Act: Intention-Guided Reasoning for LLM-Based Location Prediction

    Jun 6, 2026Qingxiang Liu, Anqi Liang, Zhuoyang Jiang +5TourReasoning Trajectory

  25. ConSteer-RL: Steering Reasoning Capabilities in Large Language Models via Confidence-Aware Reinforcement Learning

    Jun 6, 2026Qing Miao, Yiming Zhao, Jing Yang +5Reinforcement Learning With Verifiable RewardLarge Language Model Reasoning

  26. Enhancing AI Interpretability and Safety through Localised Architectures

    Jun 6, 2026Ian Seet, Jonas Bozenhard, Simon OstermannModel InterpretabilityNeural Architectures

  27. RecurGuard: Runtime Monitoring for Reasoning-Token Consumption Attacks

    Jun 6, 2026Abid Aziz, Hafsa Binte KibriaLarge Language Model ReasoningStress Testing

  28. The Easy, the Hard, and the Learnable: Confidence and Difficulty-Adaptive Policy Optimization for LLM Reasoning

    Jun 6, 2026Zhanke Zhou, Xiangyu Lu, Chentao Cao +4Multi-Objective Policy OptimizationLarge Language Model Reasoning

  29. Where Instruction Hierarchy Breaks: Diagnosing and Repairing Failures in Reasoning Language Models

    Jun 5, 2026Sanjay Kariyappa, G. Edward SuhLarge Language Model ReasoningLarge Reasoning Models

  30. How reliable are LLMs when it comes to playing dice?

    Jun 5, 2026Luca Avena, Gianmarco Bet, Bernardo BusoniChain-of-Thought Reasoning

  31. Why Limit the Residual Stream to Layers and Not Tokens? Persistent Memory for Continuous Latent Reasoning

    Jun 5, 2026Mujtaba Farhan, Maheep ChaudharyEfficient Latent ReasoningReasoning Paths

  32. From Correctness to Utility: Gain-Based Prefix Evaluation for LLM Reasoning

    Jun 5, 2026Yuhang Zhou, Yixin Cao, Guangnan YeLarge Language Model ReasoningStep-Level Supervision

  33. Think Fast: Estimating No-CoT Task-Completion Time Horizons of Frontier AI Models

    Jun 5, 2026Dewi Gould, Francis Rhys Ward, Anders Cairns Woodruff +18Frontier ModelsLarge Reasoning Models

  34. DyCon: Dynamic Reasoning Control via Evolving Difficulty Modeling

    Jun 5, 2026Tengyao Tu, Yulin Li, Hui-Ling Zhen +6Large Reasoning ModelsDynawm

  35. On the Geometry of On-Policy Distillation

    Jun 5, 2026Zhennan Shen, Yanshu Li, Qingyu Yin +6On-Policy DistillationLarge Language Model Reasoning

  36. mmPISA-bench: Do LLMs Reason Equally Well Across 43 Languages?

    Jun 5, 2026Yerzhan Sapenov, Jaromir SavelkaMultilingual ReasoningMultilingual Benchmark

  37. Quantum-Inspired Trace-Augmented Evidence Selection for Reasoning over Structured Hypothesis Spaces

    Jun 5, 2026Laura Wynter, Nirvik Sahoo, Paul GriffinLegal DomainChain-of-Thought Reasoning

  38. ThinkBooster: A Unified Framework for Seamless Test-Time Scaling of LLM Reasoning

    Jun 5, 2026Vladislav Smirnov, Chieu Nguyen, Sergey Senichev +14Test-Time ScalingTest Time

  39. CRAFT: A Unified Counterfactual Reasoning Framework for Tabular Question Answering and Fact Verification

    Jun 5, 2026Chenshuo Pan, Yu Zhao, Jie Zhang +7Table Reasoning DatasetsCounterfactual Reasoning

  40. When to Think Deeply: Inhibitory Deliberation for LLM Reasoning

    Jun 4, 2026Zhixuan He, Yue FengLarge Language Model ReasoningDeliberation

  41. How Language Models Fail: Token-Level Signatures of Committed and Persistent Reasoning Failures

    Jun 4, 2026Tanvi Thoria, Kiana Jafari, Marc R. Schlichting +1Reasoning FailuresLarge Language Model Reasoning

  42. Skip a Layer or Loop It? Learning Program-of-Layers in LLMs

    Jun 4, 2026Ziyue Li, Yang Li, Tianyi ZhouLLM Inference EfficiencyLarge Language Model Reasoning

  43. RREDCoT: Segment-Level Reward Redistribution for Reasoning Models

    Jun 4, 2026Mykyta Ielanskyi, Kajetan Schweighofer, Lukas Aichberger +1Large Reasoning ModelsCredit Assignment

  44. Human Adults and LLMs as Scientists: Who Benefits from Active Exploration?

    Jun 4, 2026Mandana Samiei, Eunice Yiu, Anthony GX-Chen +5Abductive ReasoningCognitive Science

  45. Latent Reasoning with Normalizing Flows

    Jun 4, 2026Guancheng Tu, Xiangjun Fu, Suhao Yu +5Efficient Latent ReasoningAutoregressive Language Models

  46. OneReason Technical Report

    Jun 4, 2026OneRec Team, Biao Yang, Boyang Ding +81RecommendationThinking

  47. Closing the Loop on Latent Reasoning via Test-Time Reconstruction

    Jun 4, 2026Xiaopeng Yuan, Haibo Jin, Ye Yu +4Efficient Latent ReasoningSelf-Supervised Reconstruction Method

  48. MPCoT: Reward-Guided Multi-Path Latent Reasoning for Test-Time Scalable Vision-Language-Action

    Jun 4, 2026Boyang Zhang, Lianlei ShanEfficient Latent Reasoning

  49. The Tell-Tale Norm: ℓ2\ell_2 Magnitude as a Signal for Reasoning Dynamics in Large Language Models

    Jun 4, 2026Jinyang Zhang, Hongxin Ding, Yue Fang +4Large Language Model ReasoningSpectral Norm

  50. Compress-Distill: Reasoning Trace Compression for Efficient Knowledge Distillation

    Jun 4, 2026Maxime Griot, Paul Steven Scotti, Tanishq Mathew AbrahamKnowledge DistillationReasoning Traces

  51. Causal Scaffolding for Physical Reasoning: A Benchmark for Causally-Informed Physical World Understanding in VLMs

    Jun 4, 2026Tianyi Tang, Zhuoyi Lin, Zeyu Feng +4Large Vision Language ModelsCausal Reasoning

  52. TARPO: Token-Wise Latent-Explicit Reasoning via Action-Routing Policy Optimization

    Jun 4, 2026Liting Zhang, Shiwan Zhao, Xuyang Zhao +3Efficient Latent ReasoningLarge Language Model Post-Training

  53. Benchmarks in Leipzig

    Jun 4, 2026Andrei Balakin, Miklós Bóna, Marie-Charlotte Brandenburg +45Mathematical ReasoningMathematics

  54. VTI-CoT: Visual-Textual Interleaved Chain of Thought for Video Reasoning

    Jun 4, 2026Shufan Zhang, Ziyue Lin, Bairun Wang +4Video UnderstandingVisual Reasoning

  55. Critic-Guided Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Reasoning for Reliable Mathematical Problem Solving

    Jun 4, 2026Muhammad Talha Sharif, Abdul RehmanMathematical ReasoningMulti-Agent Reasoning

  56. WorldBench: A Challenging and Visually Diverse Multimodal Reasoning Benchmark

    Jun 4, 2026Yida Yin, Harish Krishnakumar, Chung Peng Lee +9Multimodal Reasoning BenchmarksMultimodal Benchmarks

  57. Synthetic Contrastive Reasoning for Multi-Table Q&A

    Jun 3, 2026Ankit Pratap Singh, Xin Su, Phillip HowardTable Reasoning DatasetsContrastive Learning

  58. LoRi: Low-Rank Distillation for Implicit Reasoning

    Jun 3, 2026Ryan Solgi, Jiayi Tian, Zheng ZhangReasoning TrajectoryEfficient Chain-Of-Thought Reasoning

  59. Failed Reasoning Traces Tell You What Is Fixable (But Not by Reading Them)

    Jun 3, 2026Nizar Islah, Istabrak Abbes, Irina Rish +2Reasoning FailuresReasoning Traces

  60. Boosting Self-Consistency with Ranking

    Jun 3, 2026Maria Marina, Daniil Moskovskiy, Sergey Pletenev +3Self-ConsistencyMulti-Hop Question Answering Benchmarks