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  1. Deposon: An Auditable, Conservation-Guaranteed, Game-Theoretically Tested Scattering Layer over LLM Reasoning Paths

    Sep 8, 2026Qihao YuanReasoning PathsLarge Language Model Reasoning

  2. Does Deeper Reasoning Compromise Alignment? Revealing and Mitigating of Alignment Collapse in Large Reasoning Models

    Sep 8, 2026Yu-Hang Wu, Yu-Jie Xiong, Henghua Zhang +3Safety AlignmentLarge Reasoning Models

  3. A*-Thought-V2: Efficient Latent Reasoning via Geometric Dynamics of LLM

    Sep 7, 2026Xiaoang Xu, Siyuan Liu, Shuo Wang +13Efficient Latent ReasoningChain-of-Thought Reasoning

  4. Think Wider: Mitigating Latent Rank Collapse in Implicit Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

    Sep 7, 2026Yuwen Hao, Menglin YangEfficient Latent ReasoningIntermediate Latent States

  5. MV-STRIDE: Enabling MLLMs to Master Multi-View Spatial Reasoning via Hierarchical Capability Modeling

    Sep 7, 2026Jin Xu, Xiaojian Huang, Zhuodong Luo +6Spatial ReasoningReasoning Paths

  6. DODR: Deterministic Operator-Driven Reasoning in Latent Space

    Sep 7, 2026Weicai Huang (Beijing MQPat Technologies, Co., Ltd.)Efficient Latent ReasoningInference Engine

  7. MCPO: Modality-Contrastive Preference Optimization for Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Compression

    Sep 4, 2026Guangheng Yang, Zhenliang Ni, Zhenkai Wu +4Efficient Chain-Of-Thought ReasoningChain-of-Thought Reasoning

  8. PerfReasoning: How Well Do LLMs Reason on Hardware Performance?

    Sep 3, 2026Dan Zhao, Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, Christos Kozyrakis +1Large Language Model ReasoningRecursive Reasoner

  9. Legibility is Not Interpretability: Comparing Judged and Actual Importance in Chain-Of-Thought Reasoning

    Sep 3, 2026Kevin Du, Alexander Hoyle, Laura Ruis +1Reasoning ChainReasoning Traces

  10. Sequential Beats Joint: On the Interplay between On-Policy Distillation and RLVR

    Sep 3, 2026Boyan Li, Bingsen Chen, Chenghao Yang +3Reinforcement Learning With Verifiable RewardOn-Policy Distillation

  11. A Circuit for Plural Reference: How LLMs Represent and Retrieve Singular and Plural Entities

    Sep 3, 2026Anh Danh, Rick Nouwen, Massimo PoesioCoreference ResolutionEntities

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

    Sep 3, 2026Seunghee Koh, Sungjae Choi, Minchan Kwon +2Chain-of-Thought ReasoningThinking

  13. Lost in Reordering: Structural Sensitivity of Multilingual LLMs under Semantics-Preserving Perturbations

    Sep 3, 2026Karthika Nhayakkat, Rajat Verma, Maharaj Brahma +4Multilingual Large Language ModelsMultilingual Reasoning

  14. GrowPage: On-Demand KV Budgeting for Efficient LLM Reasoning Serving

    Sep 3, 2026Qiankun Ma, Yanjiang Zhou, Zinan Xiong +5Graphics Processing Unit MemoryLarge Language Model Reasoning

  15. It's the Problem, Not the Path: Budget and Difficulty Confounds in LLM Reasoning Trajectories

    Sep 3, 2026Yigit Utku BulutLarge Language Model ReasoningLarge Language Model Performance

  16. RecurTrace: Adaptive Latent Reasoning with Loop-Time Memory

    Sep 3, 2026Yuxiang Wang, Kunyu Feng, Yingda Shen +3Efficient Latent ReasoningRecurrent Model

  17. Accountable AI with Grounded, Faithful, Consistent, Actionable Rationales: A Case Study in Clinical Trial Matching with VERDICT

    Sep 3, 2026Zikai Zhou, Yufei Jin, Yilin Xu +3RationalesTrustworthy Artificial Intelligence

  18. Gradients Know What Outcomes Don't: Unlocking Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning with Gradient-Aligned Rewards

    Sep 3, 2026Leqi Zheng, Jinbo Su, Fang Niu +8Reinforcement Learning With Verifiable RewardLarge Language Model Reasoning

  19. Frontier LLMs are effective batch optimizers: Assessing reasoning models in continuous and discrete settings

    Sep 2, 2026Frank Hu, Shriram Chennakesavalu, David GraffLlm-Based Optimization ModelingFrontiers

  20. Thinking effort aligns between humans and reasoning models in abductive reasoning

    Sep 1, 2026Henry ArthurLarge Reasoning ModelsAbductive Reasoning

  21. Induction and Inquiry via Probabilistic Reasoning over Language and Code

    Sep 1, 2026Wasu Top Piriyakulkij, Sam Acquaviva, Cassidy Langenfeld +2Large Language Model ReasoningInductive Logic Programming

  22. Parsing the Stream: A Live Trace Model for Long-Horizon Agents and Their Observers

    Sep 1, 2026Egor Pakhomov, Erik NijkampLong-Horizon AgentsReasoning Traces

  23. Diffusion as a Training Curriculum for Timestep-Free Iterative Reasoning

    Sep 1, 2026Mariia Drozdova, Aidan Sirbu, Pietro Miotti +4Future Llm-Assisted Solver DevelopmentDenoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model

  24. Relational Task Generation Language: A Declarative Specification Framework for Relational Deep Learning

    Sep 1, 2026Oleksii Kolesnichenko, Jakub Peleška, Gustav ŠírRelational Deep LearningTable Reasoning Datasets

  25. H2Table: Hierarchical Hypergraph-Enhanced Large Language Models for Complex Table Reasoning

    Sep 1, 2026Jia Ling, Yangfan Wang, Chen Tang +4Multi-Hop ReasoningHypergraphs

  26. Latent Recurrent Thoughts: Recurrent Refinement of Proposed Latents for Reasoning with Frozen LLMs

    Sep 1, 2026Zhaoliang Chen, Jie FuLatent ThoughtsFrozen Encoder

  27. DiagEvo: Diagnosis-Guided Self-Evolution via Hierarchical Error Memory

    Sep 1, 2026Xincheng Wei, Yifan Ding, Yoshua Li +5Self-EvolutionReasoning Benchmark

  28. Escaping Redundant Reasoning: Structure-Aware Search for Inference-Time LLMs

    Sep 1, 2026Lu ChengInference-TimeReasoning Paths

  29. The Answer Is Not the Argument

    Aug 31, 2026Will Yeadon, Sergio Juárez, Paul Mackay +5Reasoning TracesArtificial Intelligence Governance

  30. Scaling Large Reasoning Models beyond Human Supervision: A Path toward Superintelligence

    Aug 31, 2026Zhiqin Yang, Jingwen Fu, Yuhan Liu +16Step-Level SupervisionLarge Reasoning Models

  31. A Model with No Head and Many Thoughts

    Aug 31, 2026Nikita Koriagin, Yaroslav Aksenov, George Bredis +3Latent ThoughtsThinking

  32. Wrong Prediction, Right Answer: Recovering Evidence from Collapsed LLM Sequence Scores

    Aug 31, 2026Qiyao Yan, Chenpeng Wang, Liangming PanLarge Language Model ReasoningReasoning Benchmark

  33. Every Token Leaves a Ripple in the Stream of Thought: Eliciting Model-Internal Token Saliency for Chain-of-Thought Compression

    Aug 31, 2026Tianyi Zhao, Yinhan He, Wendy Zheng +1Chain-of-Thought ReasoningReasoning Chain

  34. Taking the Whys Seriously: Limitations of Counterfactual Explanations in Justification and Recourse

    Aug 31, 2026Mattia Cerrato, Otto Sahlgren, Xenia HeilmannCounterfactual ExplanationRationales

  35. SocialReasonBench: A Video-QA Benchmark for Social Reasoning with Counterfactual Narrative Videos

    Aug 31, 2026Zheyu Huang, Zijing Shi, Haozhe Luo +4Social ReasoningReasoning Benchmark

  36. LCoT-GV: Graph Attention Networks for Verifying Long Reasoning Chains in Large Language Models

    Aug 31, 2026Bérénice Jaulmes, Mehwish AlamReasoning GraphsReasoning Chain

  37. Geometry of Divergence: Tracking Hidden-State Trajectories for Adaptive Multi-Turn Reasoning

    Aug 31, 2026Jie Liang, Zhengxin Yu, Hamid Nasiri +1Reasoning TrajectoryMulti-Turn Interactions

  38. GMTS: Gradient Magnitude-based Token Selection Improves RLVR Training for LLM Reasoning

    Aug 31, 2026Outongyi Lv, Yuanwei Zhang, Xiaoqun ZhangReinforcement Learning With Verifiable RewardLarge Language Model Reasoning

  39. Automated Testing of LLM-Based Post Hoc Explainers Using Model Checking as an Oracle

    Aug 31, 2026Dennis Gross, Helge SpiekerProbabilistic Model CheckingLarge Reasoning Models

  40. CM2: Multimodal Cultural Reasoning via an Integrated Multi-Agent Framework

    Aug 31, 2026Qi Li, Zhaojie Kang, Yingjie He +6Multimodal ReasoningLarge Language Model Reasoning

  41. Learning to Reason and Use Tools through Unsupervised Fine-Tuning in Task-Oriented Dialog Systems

    Aug 31, 2026Markel Ferro, Oier Lopez de LacalleLarge Language Model ReasoningConversational Artificial Intelligence

  42. Beyond Polarization: The Generative Constraint of Chain-of-Thought in Pointwise Reranking

    Aug 31, 2026Xiaoyang Chen, Jie Liu, Haijin Liang +5RerankingScoring

  43. When LLM Meets Tree Search: A Systematic View of Inference as Search in Large Language Models

    Aug 31, 2026Jiaqi Wei, Xiang Zhang, Yuejin Yang +10Tree SearchLarge Language Model Reasoning

  44. Answer Probing-Guided Search for Diverse Solution Exploration of LLMs

    Aug 31, 2026Yi Fang, Que Shen, Chengpeng Li +6Large Language Model ReasoningReasoning Paths

  45. Beyond Ranking Accuracy: Evaluating LLM-Cited Feature Rationales for Next Basket Repurchase Recommendation

    Aug 31, 2026Yanan Cao, Anay Dombe, Murali Mohana Krishna Dandu +5RecommendationRationales

  46. Stratified Consistency Distillation for Natural Language Formalization

    Aug 31, 2026Zhichao Hou, Ferhat Erata, Joe Lilien +1Large Language Model ReasoningNeuro-Symbolic Framework

  47. Beyond Surface Forms: Symbolic Edits as a Test for Logical Reasoning with LLMs

    Aug 31, 2026Ramya Keerthy Thatikonda, Wray Buntine, Ehsan ShareghiLarge Language Model ReasoningLogical Connectives

  48. Generating Workflow DAGs from Natural Language with Non-Reasoning LLMs

    Aug 31, 2026Anand Iyer, Bhanu Khetharpal, Srinivas Upadhya +1Directed Acyclic GraphLarge Language Model Reasoning

  49. The Differential Reasoning Router: Operationalizing Cost-Aware LLM Annotation in E-commerce

    Aug 31, 2026Cheng Lyu, Jingyue Zhang, Vinny DeGenova +2Large Language Model ReasoningLarge Language Model Routing

  50. SPARK: Skeleton-Guided Reasoning Synthesis from Large-Scale Scientific Literature

    Aug 31, 2026Yu Li, Wei Li, Xin Gao +4Table Reasoning DatasetsScientific Discovery

  51. Rethinking Language's Role in Efficient VLA for Autonomous Vehicles: Toward Smarter, Trustworthy Driving

    Aug 31, 2026Tongfei Guo, Lili SuEfficient Vision-Language-Action ModelsVision-Language-Action Models

  52. COGTRL: Training LLMs for Scientific Discovery Assistance using Cognitive Traces via Reinforcement Learning

    Aug 31, 2026Shrinidhi Kumbhar Santosh Mashetty Divij Handa Kevin Coutinho, Siddharth Sambhaji Ghule, Chitta BaralScientific DiscoveryLarge Language Model Reasoning

  53. AutoCRAT: Within-trajectory Joint Control of Stochasticity and Compute for LLM Reasoning

    Aug 30, 2026Hanjun Luo, Qiushi Liu, Jingya Zhang +8Large Language Model ReasoningReasoning Trajectory

  54. Detecting Hidden Chain-of-Thought in Large Language Models with Linguistic, Behavioral, and Mechanistic Indicators

    Aug 30, 2026Armaan Singh, Ryan Trinh Le, Jasmine Kaur +5Large Language Model ReasoningReasoning Traces

  55. EVAR: Evidence-Validated Hypothesis Admission for Budget-Aware Narrative Reasoning

    Aug 30, 2026Peilin Liu, Zhiquan Ji, Jinglong PingLarge Language Model ReasoningNarratives

  56. ReTrace: Rejected-Trajectory Conditioning for Speculative Decoding

    Aug 30, 2026Luxi Lin, Zhanpeng Zeng, Shuang Peng +2Speculative DecodingReasoning Traces

  57. MI-Distillation: Selecting from Model-Interpolated Instruct-Reasoning Data Spectrum for Chain-of-Thought Distillation

    Aug 30, 2026Yangsong Lan, Renkai Hu, HongKai Zheng +4Chain-Of-Thought DistillationLarge Reasoning Models

  58. Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness of Reasoning Models Varies with Where and How Preference Cues Are Delivered

    Aug 29, 2026Aryo Pradipta Gema, Neel Rajani, Rohit Saxena +2Large Reasoning ModelsFaithfulness

  59. SKILL.state: Scalable Long-Horizon Agent Skills

    Aug 26, 2026Sanket Badhe, Priyanka Tiwari, Jonghyun ChungReasoning Traces

  60. SPADE: Self-Play in Adaptive Synthetic Executable Environments

    Aug 19, 2026Bo Liu, Simon Yu, Yiding Jiang +15Self-PlaySelf-Evolving Agents