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  1. Disentangling Mathematical Reasoning in LLMs: A Methodological Investigation of Internal Mechanisms

    Apr 17, 2026Tanja Baeumel, Josef van Genabith, Simon OstermannLarge Language Model ReasoningMathematical Reasoning

  2. Discover and Prove: An Open-source Agentic Framework for Hard Mode Automated Theorem Proving in Lean 4

    Apr 17, 2026Chengwu Liu, Yichun Yin, Ye Yuan +7TheoremHard

  3. From Consumption to Reflection: Designing Human-AI Relations for Stable Reasoning

    Apr 17, 2026Rikard Rosenbacke, Carl Rosenbacke, Victor Rosenbacke +1Human-Ai InteractionLarge Language Model Reasoning

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

    Apr 17, 2026Wenshuo WangLarge Language Model ReasoningLatent Trajectories

  5. LACE: Lattice Attention for Cross-thread Exploration

    Apr 16, 2026Yang Li, Zirui Zhang, Yang Liu +1Large Language Model ReasoningParallel

  6. The Missing Knowledge Layer in AI: A Framework for Stable Human-AI Reasoning

    Apr 16, 2026Rikard Rosenbacke, Carl Rosenbacke, Victor Rosenbacke +1Artificial Intelligence AlignmentLarge Language Model Reasoning

  7. Adaptive Test-Time Compute Allocation for Reasoning LLMs via Constrained Policy Optimization

    Apr 16, 2026Zhiyuan Zhai, Bingcong Li, Bingnan Xiao +2Test-Time ScalingLarge Language Model Reasoning

  8. CoTEvol: Self-Evolving Chain-of-Thoughts for Data Synthesis in Mathematical Reasoning

    Apr 16, 2026Zhuo Wang, Zhuo Zhang, Yafu Li +3Mathematical ReasoningLarge Language Model Reasoning

  9. Dissecting Failure Dynamics in Large Language Model Reasoning

    Apr 16, 2026Wei Zhu, Jian Zhang, Lixing Yu +2Reasoning FailuresLarge Language Model Reasoning

  10. Quantifying Cross-Query Contradictions in Multi-Query LLM Reasoning

    Apr 16, 2026Rohit Kumar Salla, Ramya Manasa Amancherla, Manoj SaravananLarge Language Model ReasoningSatisfiability

  11. Co-FactChecker: A Framework for Human-AI Collaborative Claim Verification Using Large Reasoning Models

    Apr 15, 2026Dhruv Sahnan, Subhabrata Dutta, Tanmoy Chakraborty +2Large Language Model Reasoning

  12. Peer-Predictive Self-Training for Language Model Reasoning

    Apr 14, 2026Shi Feng, Hanlin Zhang, Fan Nie +2Self-TrainingLarge Language Model Reasoning

  13. How LLMs Might Think

    Apr 2, 2026Joseph Gottlieb, Ethan Kemp, Matthew TragerLarge Language Model ReasoningThinking

  14. Learning Diagnostic Reasoning for Decision Support in Toxicology

    Mar 31, 2026Nico Oberländer, David Bani-Harouni, Tobias Zellner +3Large Language Model Reasoning

  15. Language Models as Higher-Order Planning Formalizers

    Mar 25, 2026Owen Jiang, Cassie Huang, Ashish Sabharwal +1Large Language Model PlanningLarge Language Model Reasoning

  16. Beyond Memorization: Distinguishing Between Pattern-Based and Epistemic Reasoning in LLMs Using Epistemic Puzzles

    Mar 22, 2026Adi Gabay, Gabriel Stanovsky, Liat PeterfreundLarge Language Model ReasoningEpistemic Actions

  17. RetroReasoner: A Reasoning LLM for Strategic Retrosynthesis Prediction

    Mar 13, 2026Hanbum Ko, Chanhui Lee, Ye Rin Kim +4Automated Synthesis TechniquesLarge Language Model Reasoning

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

    Mar 9, 2026Juming Xiong, Kevin Guo, Congning Ni +7Large Language Model ReasoningEfficient Chain-Of-Thought Reasoning

  19. Step-Level Sparse Autoencoder for Reasoning Process Interpretation

    Mar 3, 2026Xuan Yang, Jiayu Liu, Yuhang Lai +3Large Language Model ReasoningImproving Sparse Autoencoders

  20. A Neuropsychologically Grounded Evaluation of LLM Cognitive Abilities

    Mar 3, 2026Faiz Ghifari Haznitrama, Faeyza Rishad Ardi, Alice OhCognitive ScienceLarge Language Model Reasoning

  21. Recursive Models for Long-Horizon Reasoning

    Mar 2, 2026Chenxiao Yang, Nathan Srebro, Zhiyuan LiRecursionLarge Language Model Reasoning

  22. HEARTS: Benchmarking LLM Reasoning on Health Time Series

    Feb 25, 2026Sirui Li, Shuhan Xiao, Mihir Joshi +4Clinical ReasoningLarge Language Model Reasoning

  23. CausalFlip: A Benchmark for LLM Causal Judgment Beyond Semantic Matching

    Feb 23, 2026Yuzhe Wang, Yaochen Zhu, Jundong LiLarge Language Model ReasoningCausal Reasoning

  24. Ontology-Guided Neuro-Symbolic Inference: Grounding Language Models with Mathematical Domain Knowledge

    Feb 19, 2026Marcelo LabreNeuro-Symbolic FrameworkLarge Language Model Reasoning

  25. Think Deep, Not Just Long: Measuring LLM Reasoning Effort via Deep-Thinking Tokens

    Feb 13, 2026Wei-Lin Chen, Liqian Peng, Tian Tan +5Large Language Model ReasoningLarge Reasoning Models

  26. To Mix or To Merge: Toward Multi-Domain Reinforcement Learning for Large Language Models

    Feb 13, 2026Haoqing Wang, Xiang Long, Ziheng Li +3Reinforcement Learning With Verifiable RewardLarge Language Model Reasoning

  27. Neuro-Symbolic Synergy for World Modeling

    Feb 11, 2026Hongyu Zhao, Siyu Zhou, Haolin Yang +2Neuro-Symbolic FrameworkLarge Language Model Reasoning

  28. Reward Modeling for Reinforcement Learning-Based LLM Reasoning: Design, Challenges, and Evaluation

    Feb 10, 2026Pei-Chi Pan, Yingbin Liang, Sen LinLarge Language Model ReasoningReward Modeling

  29. rePIRL: Learn PRM with Inverse RL for LLM Reasoning

    Feb 8, 2026Xian Wu, Kaijie Zhu, Ying Zhang +2Reliable Medical Process-Level Reward Model Evaluation FrameworkLarge Language Model Reasoning

  30. GR2: Generative Reasoning Re-ranker

    Feb 8, 2026Mingfu Liang, Yufei Li, Jay Xu +20RerankingSequential Recommendation

  31. CoT is Not the Chain of Truth: An Empirical Internal Analysis of Reasoning LLMs for Fake News Generation

    Feb 4, 2026Zhao Tong, Chunlin Gong, Yiping Zhang +5Large Language Model SafetyLarge Language Model Reasoning

  32. Policy of Thoughts: Scaling Test-Time Training for LLM Reasoning via Online Policy Evolution

    Jan 28, 2026Zhengbo Jiao, Hongyu Xian, Qinglong Wang +5Large Language Model ReasoningGroup Relative Policy Optimization

  33. Understanding LLM Failures: A Multi-Tape Turing Machine Analysis of Systematic Errors in Language Model Reasoning

    Jan 27, 2026Magnus BomanLarge Language Model PerformanceLarge Language Model Reasoning

  34. LLMs versus the Halting Problem: Characterizing Program Termination Reasoning

    Jan 26, 2026Oren Sultan, Jordi Armengol-Estape, Pascal Kesseli +4Formal VerificationLarge Language Model Reasoning

  35. A Survey of Agentic Reasoning for Large Language Models: Towards Recursively Self-Improving and Collective Agents

    Jan 18, 2026Tianxin Wei, Ting-Wei Li, Zhining Liu +26Agentic ReasoningLarge Language Model Reasoning

  36. R2^2PO: Decoupling Rollout and Inference Policies for LLM Reasoning

    Jan 17, 2026Jingchu Wang, Bingbing Xu, Yige Yuan +4Large Language Model ReasoningAutoregressive Rollout

  37. Programming over Thinking: Efficient and Robust Multi-Constraint Planning

    Jan 14, 2026Derrick Goh Xin Deik, Quanyu Long, Zhengyuan Liu +2Large Language Model PlanningClassical Planning

  38. Improving LLM Reasoning with Homophily-aware Structural and Semantic Text-Attributed Graph Compression

    Jan 13, 2026Zijun Di, Bin Lu, Huquan Kang +5Text-Attributed GraphLarge Language Model Reasoning

  39. Do Language Models Reason Across Languages?

    Jan 10, 2026Yan Meng, Wafaa Mohammed, Christof MonzMultilingual ReasoningLarge Language Model Reasoning

  40. Alpha-R1: Alpha Screening with LLM Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning

    Dec 29, 2025Zuoyou Jiang, Li Zhao, Rui Sun +6Large Language Model ReasoningReranking

  41. KBQA-R1: Reinforcing Large Language Models for Knowledge Base Question Answering

    Dec 10, 2025Xin Sun, Zhongqi Chen, Xing Zheng +6Large Language Model ReasoningKnowledge Graphs

  42. Multilingual Medical Reasoning for Question Answering with Large Language Models

    Dec 5, 2025Pietro Ferrazzi, Aitor Soroa, Rodrigo AgerriMultilingual ReasoningClinical Reasoning

  43. ThreadWeaver: Adaptive Threading for Efficient Parallel Reasoning in Language Models

    Nov 24, 2025Long Lian, Sida Wang, Felix Juefei-Xu +7Large Language Model ReasoningParallel

  44. Evaluating Implicit Biases in LLM Reasoning through Logic Grid Puzzles

    Nov 8, 2025Fatima Jahara, Mark Dredze, Sharon LevyLarge Language Model BiasLarge Language Model Reasoning

  45. Reinforcement Learning Improves Traversal of Parametric Knowledge in LLMs

    Nov 8, 2025Renfei Zhang, Manasa Kaniselvan, Rylan Schaeffer abd Niloofar MireshghallahLarge Language Model ReasoningFactual Recall

  46. Scaling Latent Reasoning via Looped Language Models

    Oct 29, 2025Rui-Jie Zhu, Zixuan Wang, Kai Hua +30Large Language Model ReasoningEfficient Latent Reasoning

  47. RLIE: Rule Generation with Logistic Regression, Iterative Refinement, and Evaluation for Large Language Models

    Oct 22, 2025Yang Yang, Hua XU, Zhangyi Hu +1Inductive Logic ProgrammingLarge Language Model Reasoning

  48. A Model Can Help Itself: Reward-Free Self-Training for LLM Reasoning

    Oct 21, 2025Mengqi Li, Lei Zhao, Anthony Man-Cho So +2Large Language Model ReasoningSelf-Training

  49. Don't Tell the Answer, Truly Guide the Reasoning During RL Rollouts

    Oct 10, 2025Xinyi Wang, Jinyi Han, Zishang Jiang +7Large Language Model Reasoning

  50. Enhancing Reasoning for Diffusion LLMs via Distribution Matching Policy Optimization

    Oct 9, 2025Yuchen Zhu, Wei Guo, Jaemoo Choi +4Large Language Model ReasoningDiffusion Language Models

  51. Selective Expert Guidance for Effective and Diverse Exploration in Reinforcement Learning of LLMs

    Oct 5, 2025Zishang Jiang, Jinyi Han, Tingyun Li +7Reinforcement Learning With Verifiable RewardLarge Language Model Reasoning

  52. Interactive Learning for LLM Reasoning

    Sep 30, 2025Hehai Lin, Shilei Cao, Sudong Wang +5Large Language Model ReasoningOnline Learning

  53. Predicting LLM Reasoning Performance with Small Proxy Model

    Sep 25, 2025Woosung Koh, Juyoung Suk, Sungjun Han +2Large Language Model ReasoningLarge Reasoning Models

  54. Discovering New Theorems via LLMs with In-Context Proof Learning in Lean

    Sep 16, 2025Kazumi Kasaura, Naoto Onda, Yuta Oriike +3TheoremLarge Language Model Reasoning

  55. Vis-CoT: A Human-in-the-Loop Framework for Interactive Visualization and Intervention in LLM Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

    Sep 1, 2025Kaviraj Pather, Elena Hadjigeorgiou, Arben Krasniqi +4Large Language Model ReasoningChain-of-Thought Reasoning

  56. ReST-RL: Reinforcing LLM Reasoning through Unified Self-Training and Value-Guided Search

    Aug 27, 2025Sining Zhoubian, Dan Zhang, Jie TangLarge Language Model ReasoningReinforcement Learning With Verifiable Reward

  57. When Tools Hurt LLM Reasoning: State-Dependent Belief Revision under External Evidence

    Aug 21, 2025Yufeng Zhao, Junnan Liu, Hongwei Liu +4Initial Human Belief DistributionsLarge Language Model Reasoning

  58. Fast, Slow, and Tool-augmented Thinking for LLMs: A Review

    Aug 17, 2025Xinda Jia, Jinpeng Li, Zezhong Wang +6Large Language Model ReasoningCognitive Science

  59. The Bidirectional Process Reward Model

    Aug 3, 2025Lingyin Zhang, Jun Gao, Xiaoxue Ren +1Reliable Medical Process-Level Reward Model Evaluation FrameworkLarge Language Model Reasoning

  60. Disentangling Reasoning Logic to Resolve Explicit Knowledge Conflicts

    Aug 2, 2025Xianda Zheng, Zijian Huang, Meng-Fen Chiang +4Knowledge ConflictsLarge Language Model Reasoning