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  1. Recursive Vision Language Models for General Symbolic Reasoning

    Aug 2, 2026Omid Nejati Manzari, Guillaume Lajoie, Hassan RivazLarge Reasoning ModelsRecursion

  2. Question Begets Question: Self-Evolving Curriculum for Reinforcement Fine-Tuning on Competition Mathematics

    Aug 2, 2026Longtian Bao, Jianyou Wang, Yang Zhang +2Math ProblemsCurriculum

  3. Unified Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Complex Graph Reasoning in Large Language Models

    Aug 2, 2026Fali Wang, Ali Al-Lawati, Iliyas Bektas +5Reasoning BenchmarkBenchmarking Large Language Models

  4. HopRefusalBench: Diagnosing Refusal Failures in Search-Augmented Agents for Multi-Hop Reasoning

    Aug 2, 2026Jianan Xie, Xin Sun, Zhongqi Chen +3Search AgentsMulti-Hop Reasoning

  5. Same Task, Different Work: Prompt-Induced Waste in Coding Agents

    Aug 2, 2026Sarel Weinberger, Amir HozezCoding AgentsLarge Reasoning Models

  6. Cognitive Demand Steering for Adaptive Meta-Reasoning in Large Language Models

    Aug 2, 2026John Scoville, Shengzhuang Chen, Yejin Bang +2Large Language Model ReasoningCognitive Science

  7. The Graph Language: How Knowledge Graphs Speak to Large Language Models

    Aug 2, 2026Giuseppe PirròKnowledge GraphsLarge Language Model Reasoning

  8. Attend to Your Own Thoughts: Breaking the Barrier for Post-Training Quantization of Reasoning LLMs through the Lens of 1.58-Bit Quantization

    Aug 2, 2026Shigeng Wang, Chao Li, Yangyuxuan Kang +2Large Language Model QuantizationLarge Language Model Reasoning

  9. Cloud-ScPO: Hidden-State Geometry for Semi-Supervised Preference Optimization in LLM Reasoning

    Aug 2, 2026Yuzhou Liu, Xiyang HuLarge Language Model ReasoningMathematical Reasoning

  10. Escaping Confidence Trap: Evolutionary Decoding for Mathematical Reasoning in Diffusion LLMs

    Aug 1, 2026Zhenhong Sun, Hanqing Zhao, Yatao Bian +7Mathematical ReasoningLarge Language Model Reasoning

  11. Native Multilingual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Low-Resource Southeast Asian Languages

    Aug 1, 2026Sean Gip Lim, William Chandra Tjhi, Hai Leong ChieuMultilingual ReasoningLarge Language Model Reasoning

  12. TrAC: Trace-Conditioned Answer Consistency for Efficient Uncertainty Quantification in LLMs

    Aug 1, 2026Dahai Yu, Lin Jiang, Rongchao Xu +1Large Language Model UncertaintyLarge Language Model Reasoning

  13. SymboUQ: Symbolic Uncertainty Quantification for Spatial Reasoning in LLMs

    Aug 1, 2026Dahai Yu, Lin Jiang, Rongchao Xu +1Spatial ReasoningReasoning Traces

  14. TRACE-TS: Attribution-Grounded and Traceable Sensor-Language Reasoning for Human Activity Understanding

    Jul 31, 2026Sparsh Rastogi, Tanmay Kumar, Baiyu Chen +3Human Activity RecognitionReasoning Traces

  15. Recovering Explanations from Transformed Rule-Based Ontologies

    Jul 31, 2026Alex Ivliev, Markus Krötzsch, Maximilian MarxOntologyRecursive Reasoner

  16. TraceViT: Grounded Trace Supervision for Visual Abstract Reasoning

    Jul 31, 2026Binnan Liu, Yechi Ma, Tian Xie +1Visual ReasoningReasoning Traces

  17. DungeonBench: A Benchmark for Rules-Rich Tactical Reasoning in Dungeons & Dragons Combat

    Jul 31, 2026Ismayil Ismayilov, Atakan Kara, Kaan OktayReasoning Benchmark

  18. Knowing When to Quit: Diagnosing and Training LLMs to Abort Futile Reasoning

    Jul 31, 2026Xinyan Guan, Jiali Zeng, Chunlei Xin +5Reasoning FailuresLarge Language Model Performance

  19. Learning Latent Reasoning Traces for Scalar Reward Models End-to-End

    Jul 31, 2026Sanwoo Lee, Clive Bai, Hsiu-Yuan Huang +3Process Reward ModelingEfficient Latent Reasoning

  20. PluRel-to-RDB-PFN: Schema-Guided Synthetic Relational Pretraining

    Jul 31, 2026Mohammad Sadeq Abolhasani, Viswanath GanapathyRelational Deep LearningModel Pretraining

  21. Curriculum Matters: Data-Efficient Relational PFN Pretraining with Synthetic Data

    Jul 31, 2026Mohammad Sadeq Abolhasani, Viswanath GanapathyTabular Prior-Data Fitted NetworkRelational Deep Learning

  22. On the Generalization of Steering Vectors for Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness

    Jul 31, 2026Matthew Nguyen, Kyle Cox, Austin Meek +1Explanation FaithfulnessFaithfulness

  23. BLADE: Boundary-Expanded and Layer-Adaptive Dynamic Exit for Efficient LLM Reasoning

    Jul 31, 2026Keshu Fu, Keqin Peng, Jun Bai +6Large Language Model ReasoningReasoning Traces

  24. OSReward: Instituting Standardized Evaluation for Cross-Platform Computer-Use Reward Models

    Jul 30, 2026Qiushi Sun, Kanzhi Cheng, Yian Wang +20Large Language Model JudgesReasoning Trajectory

  25. Would You Walk to the Car Wash? Revealing the Salience Bias of Large Language Models in Commonsense Reasoning

    Jul 30, 2026Zheng Wu, Chenhao Xue, Shijie Zheng +3Large Language Model ReasoningReasoning Failures

  26. Cybersecurity Detection Classification with Reasoning-enabled Language Models

    Jul 30, 2026Amol Khanna, Manu Nandan, Cristian Viorel Popa +10Large Language Model SafetyArtificial Intelligence Detection

  27. SVR: Self-Verifying Refinement via Joint Verdict-Confidence Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Test-Time Compute

    Jul 30, 2026Hongyu Chen, Liang Lin, Guangrun WangReinforcement Learning With Verifiable RewardVerifier

  28. Lightning OPD 2.0: Mitigating Style Bias in Cross-Teacher On-Policy Distillation for Large Reasoning Models

    Jul 30, 2026Yecheng Wu, Song Han, Han CaiOn-Policy DistillationLarge Reasoning Models

  29. Demystifying Entropy-based Selection for Chain-of-Thought Compression in Large Reasoning Models

    Jul 30, 2026Sara Candussio, Daniel Scalena, Luca Bortolussi +3Large Reasoning ModelsReasoning Chain

  30. LEEPS: Latent-Guided Explore-Exploit Prompt Sampling for Efficient RLVR in Large Language Models

    Jul 30, 2026Shuang Liang, Haoyang Zhou, Yifan Gong +2Reinforcement Learning With Verifiable RewardLarge Language Model Reasoning

  31. SKIMIX: Multi-Agent Harness-Time Scaling with Skill Mixture for Dynamic Harness Engineering

    Jul 30, 2026Jia LuoAgent HarnessReasoning Benchmark

  32. Exact Action Values Are Not Enough: Rollout-Verified Reinforcement Fine-Tuning of a Reasoning Model for Multi-Zone VAV Control

    Jul 30, 2026Takumi Shioda, Kohei Terashima, Tatsuo NagaiReinforcement Fine-TuningIterative Reinforcement Learning

  33. Reasoning Consensus: Structural Ensembling of LLM Reasoning via Weighted DAG Aggregation

    Jul 30, 2026Amruta Parulekar, Jinu Lee, Dilek Hakkani-Tür +1Large Language Model ReasoningReasoning Chain

  34. Beyond the Best Teacher: Expanding and Compressing the Reasoning Solution Manifold

    Jul 30, 2026Songshuo Lu, Zhi Chen, Yaohua TangTeacherRecursive Reasoner

  35. Compliance2LoRA: Personalizable On-Demand Safety Alignment on Arbitrary Policy Subsets via Hypernetwork-Generated LoRA Adapters

    Jul 30, 2026Pankayaraj Pathmanathan, Furong HuangSafety AlignmentLow-Rank Adaptation Adapters

  36. TELLER: Dual-Path Iterative Preference Optimization for Table Entity Linking

    Jul 29, 2026Yixin Peng, Kehao Li, Stefan DeckerEntitiesTable Reasoning Datasets

  37. Position, Not Provenance: Separating Reasoning Mediation from Sycophancy in Medical Vision-Language Models

    Jul 29, 2026Supratik Bhowal, Subhrajyoti Basu, Aritra Gir Mahanta +1Medical Vision-Language ModelsClinical Reasoning

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

    Jul 29, 2026Arnav Hiray, Agam Shah, Caleb Lu +3Large Language Model ReasoningLarge Reasoning Models

  39. Dual-Path LLM Reasoning for Multimodal Few-Shot Knowledge Graph Completion

    Jul 29, 2026Jinlan Liu, Zhiying Tu, Yongchao Xing +5Knowledge Graph CompletionLarge Language Model Reasoning

  40. Think Short, Defer Smart, Act, and Repeat: Calibrated Reasoning and Uncertainty-Aware Deferral for Edge LLM Agents

    Jul 29, 2026Amirmohammad Farzaneh, Osvaldo SimeoneAgentic ReasoningLarge Language Model Agents

  41. Thinking Under Uncertainty: Evidence Use and Information-Seeking in Language Models

    Jul 29, 2026Hua-Dong Xiong, Xinyuan Yan, Ji-An Li +3Large Language Model UncertaintyLarge Language Model Decision-Making

  42. Do Latent Channels Actually Communicate? A Causal Audit of Latent Multi-Agent LLM

    Jul 29, 2026Huixiang Zhang, Mahzabeen EmuEfficient Latent ReasoningAlgorithm Auditing

  43. See2Think: Do Multimodal Models Really Use Intermediate Visual States?

    Jul 29, 2026Siyu Yan, Zhuoran Yan, Haiying Xu +10Visual ReasoningThinking

  44. CMT-RAG: Complementary Memory Traces for Multi-turn Multi-hop RAG

    Jul 29, 2026Lang Zhou, Yingjian Chen, Shuxuan Li +2Hievi-RagMulti-Hop Reasoning

  45. Voice Memory for Agentic Speech Recognition

    Jul 29, 2026Chao-Han Huck Yang, Zih-Ching Chen, Piotr Zelasko +3Automatic Speech Recognition SystemsError Correction

  46. Knowledge before Reasoning: EC-Reason-Bench, a Training-Free Diagnostic Benchmark for LLM Enzyme Classification

    Jul 29, 2026Linyu Li, Zhi Jin, Yichi Zhang +6Reasoning BenchmarkDiagnostic Benchmark

  47. Exploring Structures in Physics Problems: Can AI Agents Discover Statistical Mechanical Mappings?

    Jul 29, 2026Wanyu Zhao, Wanbing ZhaoArtificial Intelligence AgentsStatistical Mechanics

  48. Embodied Agents Take Control: Minimal-Interface Zero-Shot Agents Rival Industrial-Scale Policies in Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Jul 28, 2026Jian Zhou, Xunyi Zhao, Gengze Zhou +4Embodied AgentsVision-Language Navigation

  49. Probing the Origins of Reasoning Performance: Representational Quality for Mathematical Problem-Solving in RL vs. SFT Fine-Tuned Models

    Jul 28, 2026Antyabha Rahman, Akshaj Gurugubelli, Omar Ankit +2Large Reasoning ModelsSupervised Fine-Tuning

  50. A Cost-Effective Multimodal LLM Reasoning Framework for Question Answering over Irregular Clinical Time Series

    Jul 28, 2026Frank Nie, Ethan B Liu, Yuan Zhu +2Multimodal Clinical DataInference Latency

  51. Penelope: Localized Latent Recurrence for Efficient Structured Reasoning

    Jul 28, 2026Yutong Chen, Shouqian Shi, Xinran Liu +5Efficient Latent ReasoningTransformer Encoder

  52. Minimizing Targeted Activations: Input-Only Suppression of Evaluation-Awareness Latents in Large Language Models

    Jul 28, 2026Deepanshu Mody, Samarth Agarwal, Utkarsh Mittal +1Model ActivationsLarge Language Model Safety

  53. A Reference-Free Score for Detecting Silent Reasoning Failures in Large Language Models

    Jul 28, 2026Vivek Shukla, Varun Shukla, Atul +2Reasoning FailuresCounterfactual Reasoning

  54. How Hard Does It Think? Analyzing Step-Aware Reasoning Energy in LLM Chain-of-Thought Trajectories

    Jul 28, 2026Hui Wei, Junda Wu, Sheldon Yu +8Chain-of-Thought ReasoningLarge Language Model Reasoning

  55. Evaluating Communicative Belief Updates in Large Language Models via Implicature Recognition and Cancellation

    Jul 27, 2026Cesare Spinoso-Di Piano, Verna Dankers, Marius Mosbach +1Large Language Model ReasoningBelief

  56. DS@GT ARC at CheckThat! 2026: LLM-Based Trace Ranking and Grouped Reward Modeling for Multilingual Numerical Claim Verification

    Jul 27, 2026Sagnik Sinha, Shreyas ShresthaLlm-DrivenReasoning Traces

  57. ERUnderstand: Evaluating Vision-Language Models on Structured ER Diagrams

    Jul 27, 2026Ali Ansari, Yasmin Mohammadi, Farnoush Nili +3DiagramsSchema

  58. Reason-Mediated Behavioral Models for Auditing LLM Social Simulators

    Jul 27, 2026Atharva Pandey, Gautam JajooUser SimulationSocial Reasoning

  59. CONSISTRE: A Unified Consistency-Aware Framework for Document-Level Relation Extraction with Large Language Models

    Jul 27, 2026Mingxuan SunRelation ExtractionLarge Language Model Reasoning

  60. CAGE: Cognitive Attribution Graphs for Faithful Inline Citation Generation in Long-Form Question Answering

    Jul 27, 2026Zhichao Yan, Shizhao Li, Jiapu Wang +5CitationsLarge Reasoning Models