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  1. Cognition-Oriented Emotion Tracing from Causes to Consequences in Real-World Social Scenes

    Oct 8, 2026Hao Li, Jinye Zhang, Bobo Li +5Affective ComputingMultimodal Emotion Recognition

    School of Computer Science, National Engineering Research Center for Multimedia Software, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China

  2. Correct Answers, Invalid Traces: What Verifiable Grade-School Math Reveals About Chain-of-Thought Traces

    Sep 29, 2026Ratish Puduppully, Pranabendu Misra, Paarth Iyer +3Faithfulness of Language Model ExplanationsCoT Evaluation

    IT University of Copenhagen · Chennai Mathematical Institute · Indian Institute of Technology Jammu +1

  3. On the Token Value Inequality in Efficient Reasoning

    Sep 27, 2026Runjia Zeng, Hang Hua, Yiyang Liu +5RL for Language Model ReasoningEfficient Language Model Reasoning

    Rochester Institute of Technology · Purdue University · MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab +3

  4. Externalizing Requirement-to-Repair Artifacts as Observable Traces for LLM-Based Program Repair

    Sep 14, 2026Zewen Tao, Shin-nosuke IshikawaAutomated Program RepairReasoning Trace Analysis

    Rikkyo University

  5. Answer-Distribution Trajectories: A Stochastic-Dynamics View of LLM Reasoning

    Sep 8, 2026Mar Gonzàlez I Català, Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde, Davide Murari +3LLM Uncertainty EstimationLLM Reasoning

    University of Cambridge · Harvey Mudd College

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

    Sep 3, 2026Kevin Du, Alexander Hoyle, Laura Ruis +1CoT FaithfulnessProcess Reward Models

    ETH Zürich · Work done during an internship at Cohere. · MIT +1

  7. The Answer Is Not the Argument

    Aug 31, 2026Will Yeadon, Sergio Juárez, Paul Mackay +5LLM Answer VerificationCoT Monitoring

    Department of Physics, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK · Escuela de Ingenier´ıa de Telecomunicaci´on, Department of Signal Theory and Communications, University of Vigo, Vigo E-36310, Spain · Independent Researcher

  8. The Tell-Tale Trace: Detecting Reasoning Failures in LLMs Using Chain-of-Thought Dynamics

    Aug 4, 2026Shashwat Sourav, Aishwarya BalwaniLLM ReliabilityReasoning Trace Analysis

    Department of Physics, Washington University in St. Louis · Department of Developmental Neurobiology, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

  9. HPFA: Hypergraph-Based Paired Failure Attribution for LLM Reasoning

    Aug 3, 2026Runchuan Zhu, Hongbin Lai, Bowen Jiang +4LLM ReasoningReasoning Trace Analysis

    National University of Singapore · Peking University · University of Texas at Austin +1

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

    Aug 1, 2026Dahai Yu, Lin Jiang, Rongchao Xu +1LLM EvaluationReasoning Consistency in Language Models

    Florida State University Tallahassee, Florida, USA

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

    Jul 28, 2026Vivek Shukla, Varun Shukla, Atul +2CoT FaithfulnessMathematical Reasoning Benchmarks

    Allenhouse Institute of Technology Kanpur, India

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

    Jul 28, 2026Hui Wei, Junda Wu, Sheldon Yu +8LLM InterpretabilityRepresentation Geometry in Language Models

    UC Merced · UC San Diego · UIUC +1

  13. Reason Popper-ly: Patching In-Context Reasoning with Inductive Logic Programming

    Jul 25, 2026Zirong Chen, Meiyi MaLogic ProgrammingReasoning Consistency in Language Models

    Department of Computer Science, Vanderbilt University, USA

  14. Reasoning Denoiser: Denoising Reasoning Traces for Hallucination Detection in Large Reasoning Models

    Jul 24, 2026Junlin Fang, Do Nguyen-Thanh, Xiaogang Xu +2LLM Hallucination DetectionLarge Reasoning Models

    College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University · Zhejiang University · Australian Artificial Intelligence Institute, University of Technology Sydney +1

  15. How to Build Marcus's Algebraic Mind: From Minsky's Emotion-Machine Viewpoint

    Jul 18, 2026Hiroyuki Chuma, Kanji Otsuka, Yoichi SatoComputational Cognitive ModelingVector Symbolic Architectures

    Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University (Professor Emeritus) · Meisei University (Professor Emeritus) · Shuhari System

  16. How Far Can Root Cause Analysis Go on Real-World Telemetry Data?

    Jul 15, 2026Athira Gopal, Ashwanth KrishnanAgent Failure AnalysisRoot Cause Analysis

    QPIAI India

  17. TRACE: An Operational Reasoning Schema for Auditable Agentic Commitments

    Jul 14, 2026Edward Y. Chang, Emily J. ChangData ProvenanceReasoning Evaluation

    Stanford University · Quadrivium AI

  18. Length Penalties Make Chain-of-Thought Less Monitorable

    Jul 8, 2026Bryce LittleCoT FaithfulnessOverthinking in Language Models

  19. Detecting Answer-Driven Reasoning in LLM-Based Educational Tutors via Truncated Chain-of-Thought Auditing

    Jul 6, 2026Bonan Shen, Dingyan Shang, Youting Wang +1CoT FaithfulnessIntelligent Tutoring Systems

    Independent Researcher United States · Northeastern University Boston, MA, USA · Syracuse University Syracuse, NY, USA

  20. Reading Between the Dots: Decoding Hidden Computation across Filler Tokens

    Jul 3, 2026Kaley Brauer, Claudio Mayrink Verdun, Samuel MarksLLM AuditingLLM Interpretability

    Harvard University · 4Anthropic

  21. Geometric Signatures of Reasoning: A Spectral Perspective on Task Hardness

    Jul 2, 2026Aria Masoomi, Mahsa Bazzaz, Adel Javanmard +1LLM EvaluationRepresentation Geometry in Language Models

    1Northeastern University · University of Southern California · 3Google Research

  22. Know When to Stop: Segment-Level Credit Assignment for Reducing Overthinking

    Jul 1, 2026Chia-Hsuan Lee, Sihui Dai, Mingyang Zhou +4LLM Self-CorrectionOverthinking in Language Models

    Capital One

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

    Jun 29, 2026Wenlong Wang, Fergal ReidLLM PromptingCoT Reasoning

    Fin AI Research

  24. 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 +3LLM Reasoning with GraphsStructured Reasoning

    F-Initiatives, Paris, France · Université sorbonne Paris Nord, Villetaneuse , France

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

    Jun 26, 2026Chenguang Wang, Ming Li, Xinyue Zeng +4Cognitive ModelingEducational Assessment

    1Virginia Tech · University of Maryland · 3MBZUAI +1

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

    Jun 25, 2026Hongyi Henry Jin, Wenhan Yang, Meysam Ghaffari +2LLM Fine-TuningTraining Data Selection

    Department of Computer Science, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), California, USA · Optum AI, UnitedHealth Group, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

  27. VeryTrace: Verifying Reasoning Traces through Compilable Formalism and Structured Verification

    Jun 23, 2026Ninghan Zhong, Ahmet Ege Tanriverdi, Kaan Kale +1Formal VerificationStructured Reasoning

    School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bogazici University, Turkey

  28. ReasoningLens: Hierarchical Visualization and Diagnostic Auditing for Large Reasoning Models

    Jun 22, 2026Jun Zhang, Jiasheng Zheng, Boxi Cao +5LLM AuditingLLM Interpretability

    Chinese Information Processing Laboratory Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

  29. Interpreting Latent CoT Reasoning as Dynamical Systems

    Jun 20, 2026Sabari Iyyappan Duraipandian, Shreya Sanjay Boyane, Manju Nagesh +3Latent Dynamics ModelingLLM Interpretability

    1San Jose State University. · 2Worcester Polytechnic Institute. · 3George Mason University. +1

  30. Local Causal Attribution of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

    Jun 20, 2026Dennis Wei, Yannis Belkhiter, Erik Miehling +1LLM InterpretabilityCausal Attribution

    1IBM Research.