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  1. Evo-PI: Aligning Medical Reasoning via Evolving Principle-Guided Supervision

    Jun 30, 2026Xianda Zheng, Huan Gao, Meng-Fen Chiang +3Large Language Model ReasoningStep-Level Supervision

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

    Jun 30, 2026Ying Fan, Anej Svete, Kangwook LeeEfficient Latent ReasoningVideo Latents

  3. Which Tokens Matter? Adaptive Token Selection for RLVR with the Relative Surprisal Index

    Jun 30, 2026Outongyi Lv, Yanzhao Zheng, Yuanwei Zhang +5Reinforcement Learning With Verifiable RewardLarge Language Model Reasoning

  4. Modality-Driven Search with Holistic Trace Judging for ARC-AGI-2

    Jun 30, 2026Johan LandReasoning TracesMultimodal Search Agents

  5. Fork-Think with Confidence

    Jun 30, 2026Zena Al-Khalili, Rafi Hakim, Dietrich Klakow +1Large Language Model ReasoningThinking

  6. Spatial Reasoning via Modality Switching Between Language and Symbolic Representations

    Jun 30, 2026Shreya Rajpal, Tanawan Premsri, Parisa KordjamshidiMultimodal ReasoningSpatial Reasoning

  7. Knowledge Distillation from Large Reasoning Models to Compact Student Models: A Case Study on the John O Bryan Mathematics Competition

    Jun 30, 2026Gaurab Baral, Aaditya Khanal, Yangyang Tao +1Knowledge DistillationLarge Reasoning Models

  8. When Does Learning to Stop Help? A Cost-Aware Study of Early Exits in Reasoning Models

    Jun 29, 2026Zhe Dong, Fang Qin, Manish ShahEarly StoppingLarge Reasoning Models

  9. BayesBench: Evaluating LLM Belief Trajectories Under Multi-Turn Evidence Accumulation

    Jun 29, 2026Ankur Samanta, Akshayaa Magesh, Tal Lancewicki +7Initial Human Belief DistributionsLarge Language Model Reasoning

  10. Off the Rails: Hijacking the Scoring Head in Generative End-to-End Driving Planners with Safety-Violating Adversarial Perturbations

    Jun 29, 2026Halima Bouzidi, Mboutidem Ekemini Mkpong, Haoyu Liu +1Autonomous DrivingDiffusion Planning

  11. Pessimism's Paradox: Conservative Offline Training Amplifies Reward Hacking During Online Adaptation in Reasoning Models

    Jun 29, 2026Subramanyam Sahoo, Aman Chadha, Vinija Jain +1ConservatismPessimism

  12. Experience Augmented Policy Optimization for LLM Reasoning

    Jun 29, 2026Jinda Lu, Kexin Huang, Junkang Wu +7Reinforcement Learning With Verifiable RewardLarge Language Model Reasoning

  13. Grounding LLM Reasoning under Incomplete Graph Evidence

    Jun 29, 2026Jiaqi Li, Fanghui SongKnowledge GraphsKnowledge-Grounded Reasoning

  14. Before Thinking, Learn to Decide: Proactive Routing for Efficient Visual Reasoning

    Jun 29, 2026Yinan Zhou, Haokun Lin, Yichen Wu +7Multimodal Reasoning BenchmarksVisual Reasoning

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

    Jun 29, 2026Wenlong Wang, Fergal ReidChain-of-Thought ReasoningLarge Language Model Reasoning

  16. LatentRevise: Learning from Zero-Hit Reasoning

    Jun 29, 2026Yiqiu Guo, Xueting Han, Qi Jia +2Reinforcement Learning With Verifiable RewardEfficient Latent Reasoning

  17. HippoSpark: An On-Demand Experience System for LLM Reasoning

    Jun 29, 2026Jingyao Liu, Danling Meng, Chen Huang +5Large Language Model ReasoningExperience

  18. Latent-CURE for Breast Cancer Diagnosis

    Jun 29, 2026Weiyi Zhao, Xiaoyu Tan, Lu Gan +2MammographyNon-Small Cell Lung Cancer

  19. H-GRPO: Permutation-Invariant Reinforcement Learning for Grounded Visual Reasoning

    Jun 29, 2026Eric Peh, Debaditya Roy, Basura FernandoExplicit Visual GroundingLarge Vision Language Models

  20. Why Struggle with Continuous Latents? Interpretable Discrete Latent Reasoning via Rendered Compression

    Jun 29, 2026Shuochen Chang, Qingyang Liu, Shaobo Wang +8Efficient Latent ReasoningIntermediate Latent States

  21. SemJoin: Semantic Join Optimization

    Jun 28, 2026Christopher Gou, Aditya Banerjee, Jiaxuan Wang +1Data LakesNatural Language Queries

  22. When LLMs Develop Languages: Symbolic Communication for Efficient Multi-Agent Reasoning

    Jun 28, 2026Zhengqi Pei, Qingming Huang, Shuhui WangLarge Language Model ReasoningMulti-Agent Reasoning

  23. Process Advantage Signal Shaping: A Paradigm-Agnostic Middleware for Process-Supervised RL in LLM Reasoners

    Jun 28, 2026Chao Wang, Hongtao Tian, Tao Yang +3Reliable Medical Process-Level Reward Model Evaluation FrameworkGroup Relative Policy Optimization

  24. The Complexity Ceiling Benchmark: A Multi-Domain Evaluation of Sequential Reasoning Under Depth Scaling

    Jun 28, 2026Shubh Chapra, Dhruv Kumar, Murari Mandal +1Large Language Model ReasoningLong-Horizon Tasks

  25. MIThinker: A Plug-and-Play Policy-Optimized Thinker For Motivational Interviewing Counseling

    Jun 28, 2026Yizhe Yang, Palakorn Achananuparp, Heyan Huang +2Cognitive Behavioral TherapyThinking

  26. Travel-Oriented Reasoning Large Language Model via Domain-Specific Knowledge Graphs

    Jun 28, 2026Vignesh Ram Nithin Kappagantula, Shayan Hassantabar, Samuel Simpson +1Large Language Model ReasoningTour

  27. Evidence-Informed LLM Beliefs for Continual Scientific Discovery

    Jun 28, 2026Dhruv Agarwal, Reece Adamson, Andrew McCallum +3Scientific DiscoveryLarge Language Model Reasoning

  28. Invariant Reasoning Directions in Latent Trajectories of Language Models

    Jun 28, 2026Arun Vignesh Malarkkan, Manan Roy Choudhury, Utkarsh Byahut +3Reasoning TrajectoryLatent Trajectories

  29. Flow Reasoning Models: Turning Flows Into Efficient Recurrent Reasoners

    Jun 28, 2026Alec Helbling, Andrey Bryutkin, Mauro Martino +3Large Reasoning ModelsLarge Behavior Model

  30. ThinkProbe: Beyond Accuracy -- Structural Profiling of Open-Ended LLM Reasoning Traces via Non-Generative Thought Graphs

    Jun 27, 2026Mohamed Amine Kerkouri, Simon D. Hernandez, Marouane Tliba +3Large Language Model ReasoningLarge Reasoning Models

  31. Self-Supervised Theorem Discovery in a Formal Axiomatic System

    Jun 27, 2026Kazuki Ota, Takayuki Osa, Tatsuya HaradaTheoremMathematical Reasoning

  32. CCRC: A Change-Aware Captioning and Reasoning Chain for Image Change Captioning and Segmentation

    Jun 27, 2026Jinhong Hu, Xiaoping Wang, Shuyin Huang +3Remote Sensing Image Change CaptioningChange Detection

  33. BV-Blend: Uncertainty-Weighted Historical Baselines for Stable Critic-Free RL with Verifiable Rewards

    Jun 27, 2026Yupeng Chang, Yuan Wu, Yi ChangReinforcement Learning With Verifiable RewardCritic-Free Reinforcement Learning

  34. Capability Gates Are Not Authorization: Confused-Deputy Failures in LLM Agent Frameworks

    Jun 27, 2026David Mellafe ZuvicAuthorizationUntrusted Input

  35. When More Sampling Hurts: The Modal Ceiling and Correlation Ceiling of Test-Time Scaling

    Jun 27, 2026Yong Yi Bay, Kathleen A. YearickTest-Time ScalingReasoning Benchmark

  36. Search for Truth from Reasoning: A Dynamic Representation Editing Framework for Steering LLM Trajectories

    Jun 26, 2026Tianlong Wang, Yuhang Wang, Weibin Liao +5Large Language Model ReasoningReasoning Trajectory

  37. Cognitive Episodes in LLM Reasoning Traces Enable Interpretable Human Item Difficulty Prediction

    Jun 26, 2026Chenguang Wang, Ming Li, Xinyue Zeng +4Large Language Model ReasoningLarge Reasoning Models

  38. Tandem Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

    Jun 26, 2026Difan Jiao, Raghav Singhal, Robert West +1Reinforcement Learning With Verifiable RewardVerifiable Rewards

  39. EchoSonar-R: A Multi-View Reasoning-Enabled Model for Disease Classification and Report Generation in Echocardiography

    Jun 26, 2026Darya Taratynova, Ahmed Aly, Numan Saeed +1EchocardiographyMultimodal Clinical Data

  40. Single and Multi Truth Data Fusion using Large Language Models

    Jun 26, 2026Hira Beril Kucuk, Norman W Paton, Jiaoyan Chen +1Temporal Fusion TransformerTabular Data

  41. Video-MME-Logical: A Controlled Diagnostic Benchmark for Video Temporal-Logical Reasoning

    Jun 26, 2026Hohin Kwan, Hongyu Li, Ray Zhang +5Reasoning BenchmarkVisual Evidence

  42. The Weakest Link Tells It All: Outcome-Supervised Process Reward Modeling via Learnable Credit Assignment

    Jun 26, 2026Tianyu Jia, Yue Fang, Hongxin Ding +6Reliable Medical Process-Level Reward Model Evaluation FrameworkProcess Reward Modeling

  43. Textual Belief States for World Models: Identifiable Representation Learning Under Strict Mediation

    Jun 26, 2026Xiang Gao, Kaiwen Dong, Yuguang Yao +2Intermediate Latent StatesEfficient Latent Reasoning

  44. MER-R1: Multimodal Emotion Reasoning via Slow-Fast Thinking Synergy

    Jun 26, 2026Zhiyuan Han, Beier Zhu, Wenwen Tong +8Emotion RecognitionEmotion

  45. Multilingual Reasoning Cascades Need More Context

    Jun 25, 2026Arnav Mazumder, Dengjia Zhang, Shuyue Stella Li +2Multilingual ReasoningLarge Language Model Reasoning

  46. CORTEX: A Structured Reasoning Benchmark for Trustworthy 3D Chest CT MLLMs

    Jun 25, 2026Hashmat Shadab Malik, Anees Ur Rehman Hashmi, Numan Saeed +3Radiology Report GenerationClinical Reasoning

  47. LMs as Task-Specific Knowledge Bases: An Interpretability Analysis

    Jun 25, 2026Amit Elhelo, Amir Globerson, Mor GevaModel InterpretabilityChain-of-Thought Reasoning

  48. Forecasting With LLMs: Improved Generalization Through Feature Steering

    Jun 25, 2026Humzah Merchant, Bradford LevyLarge Language Model ReasoningLookahead

  49. The Riddle Riddle: Testing Flexible Reasoning in Large Language Models and Humans

    Jun 25, 2026Bella Fascendini, Kathryn McGregor, Max D. Gupta +1Large Language Model ReasoningLarge Language Model Performance

  50. ReaORE: Reasoning-Guided Progressive Open Relation Extraction Empowered by Large Reasoning Models

    Jun 25, 2026Xin Lin, Liang Zhang, Guoqi Ma +2Relation ExtractionRelational Deep Learning

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

    Jun 25, 2026Jingyu Liu, Zhiwen Wang, Yuxin Jing +2Large Language Model AgentsLarge Language Model Reasoning

  52. Information-Aware KV Cache Compression for Long Reasoning

    Jun 25, 2026Jushi Kai, Zhuiri Xiao, Alexandra Birch +1Key-Value Cache CompressionKey-Value

  53. Reasoning Quality Emerges Early: Data Curation for Reasoning Models

    Jun 25, 2026Hongyi Henry Jin, Wenhan Yang, Meysam Ghaffari +2Large Reasoning ModelsReasoning Traces

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

    Jun 25, 2026Dongbin NaGuardrailLarge Language Model Safety

  55. Humans Disengage, Reasoning Models Persist: Separating Difficulty Registration from Deliberation Allocation

    Jun 25, 2026Han-yu WangLarge Reasoning ModelsCognitive Science

  56. What Survives When You Compress a Recursive Reasoner for the Edge?

    Jun 25, 2026Pearse Jim, Steven Kolawole, Opegbemi Matthias Busoye +2Recursive ReasonerEdge

  57. Epiphany-Aware KV Cache Eviction Without the Attention Matrix

    Jun 25, 2026Steven Kolawole, Virginia SmithKey-Value Cache EvictionKey-Value Cache

  58. Narration-of-Thought: Inference-Time Scaffolding for Defeasible Ethical Reasoning in Large Language Models

    Jun 24, 2026Patrick Cooper, Alvaro VelasquezEthicsMoral Reasoning

  59. Autodata: An agentic data scientist to create high quality synthetic data

    Jun 24, 2026Ilia Kulikov, Chenxi Whitehouse, Tianhao Wu +12Synthetic DataArtificial Intelligence Scientists

  60. InvestPhilBench: A Multi-Layer Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Model Procedural Reasoning in Expert Investment Philosophy

    Jun 24, 2026Mingguang Chen, Bo QuFinancial Strategy ResearchFinance Benchmarks