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CurveBench: A Benchmark for Exact Topological Reasoning over Nested Jordan Curves
May 13, 2026Amirreza Mohseni, Mona Mohammadi, Morteza Saghafian +1VLM Evaluation Spatial Reasoning Benchmarks
Maastricht University · Cornell University · TU Wien +1
STOP: Structured On-Policy Pruning of Long-Form Reasoning in Low-Data Regimes
May 13, 2026Chenjun Xu, Zhennan Zhou, Zhan Su +3LLM Pruning LLM Fine-Tuning
University of Washington · University of Montreal
Transformers Linearly Represent Highly Structured World Models
May 13, 2026Roman Kniazev, Nathanaël FijalkowCircuit Discovery World Models
LaBRI, CNRS · University of Bordeaux · France
Deep Reasoning in General Purpose Agents via Structured Meta-Cognition
May 12, 2026Dean Light, Michael Theologitis, Kshitish Ghate +7Structured Reasoning Agentic Reasoning
University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA
Structural Rationale Distillation via Reasoning Space Compression
May 8, 2026Jialin Yang, Jiankun Wang, Jiajun Wu +3CoT Distillation Structured Reasoning
University of Calgary · Calgary, Canada · University of Michigan +1
G-SHARE: A Guideline-Based Structured Reasoning Framework for Human-Factor Event Diagnosis
May 7, 2026Xingyu Xiao, Mao Du, Jiejuan Tong +2Structured Reasoning LLM Reasoning
Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China · Fujian Fuqing Nuclear Power Co., Ltd., Fujian, 350318, China · National Key Laboratory of Human Factors Engineering, Beijing, 100094, China
RSAT: Structured Attribution Makes Small Language Models Faithful Table Reasoners
Apr 30, 2026Jugal Gajjar, Kamalasankari SubramaniakuppusamyTable QA LLM Grounding
Department of Computer Science, The George Washington University, USA
When 2D Tasks Meet 1D Serialization: On Serialization Friction in Structured Tasks
Apr 29, 2026Chung-Hsiang Lo, Lu Li, Diji Yang +4Structured Reasoning Spatial Reasoning
1Northeastern University · University of Pennsylvania · 3UC Santa Cruz +3
Shorthand for Thought: Compressing LLM Reasoning via Entropy-Guided Supertokens
Apr 29, 2026Zhenyu Zhao, Sander Land, Daniel M. Bikel +1LLM Compression LLM Interpretability
Writer, Inc.
SCOPE:Planning for Hybrid Querying over Clinical Trial Data
Apr 28, 2026Suparno Roy Chowdhury, Manan Roy Choudhury, Tejas Anvekar +5Table QA Healthcare
1Arizona State University · 2Mayo Clinic
Sum-of-Checks: Structured Reasoning for Surgical Safety with Large Vision-Language Models
Apr 24, 2026Weiqiu You, Cassandra Goldberg, Amin Madani +2Endoscopy Surgical Video Understanding
Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. · Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada. · Surgical Artificial Intelligence Research Academy, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada. +1
Self-Awareness before Action: Mitigating Logical Inertia via Proactive Cognitive Awareness
Apr 22, 2026Fulong Fan, Peilin Liu, Fengzhe Liu +2Abductive Reasoning Structured Reasoning
School of Software, Jilin University · School of Computer Science, Jilin University
KnowledgeBerg: Evaluating Systematic Knowledge Coverage and Compositional Reasoning in Large Language Models
Apr 19, 2026Xiao Zhang, Qianru Meng, Yongjian Chen +2LLM Evaluation Compositional Reasoning
University of Groningen · LIACS, Leiden University
Playing Psychic: Using Thought Trees to Predict Reasoning Models Accuracy on Coding Tasks
Apr 18, 2026Jiaxin Fang, Runyuan He, Sahil Bhatia +2Structured Reasoning Code Generation Evaluation
University of California, Berkeley
Structured Abductive-Deductive-Inductive Reasoning for LLMs via Algebraic Invariants
Apr 17, 2026Sankalp Gilda, Shlok GildaLogical Reasoning Abductive Reasoning
DeepThought Solutions · Department of Computer Science · University of Florida
Correct Prediction, Wrong Steps? Consensus Reasoning Knowledge Graph for Robust Chain-of-Thought Synthesis
Apr 15, 2026Zipeng Ling, Shuliang Liu, Seonil Son +4Logical Reasoning Self-Consistency Decoding
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · University of Alberta · Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute +3
AI Mental Models: Learned Intuition and Deliberation in a Bounded Neural Architecture
Mar 23, 2026Laurence AnthonyLogical Reasoning Computational Cognitive Modeling
School of Creative Science and Engineering Faculty of Science and Engineering Waseda University
Thinking Deeper, Not Longer: Memory-Efficient Test-Time Reasoning with Depth-Recurrent Transformers for Compositional Generalization
Mar 23, 2026Hung-Hsuan ChenEfficient Transformer Inference Recurrent Transformers
Computer Science and Information Engineering National Central University Taoyuan, Taiwan
MultiZebraLogic: A Multilingual Logical Reasoning Benchmark
Nov 5, 2025Sofie Helene Bruun, Dan Saattrup SmartLogical Reasoning Multilingual Language Model Evaluation
The Alexandra Institute Rued Langgaards Vej 7, 5D, 2300 Copenhagen S, Denmark
Explore-Execute Chain: Towards an Efficient Structured Reasoning Paradigm
Sep 28, 2025Kaisen Yang, Tinghe Zhang, Rushi Shah +4LLM Inference Efficiency LLM Planning
1Qizhi Institute · 2Dept. of Computer Science, Tsinghua University · College of AI, Tsinghua University +4
Few shot chain-of-thought driven reasoning to prompt LLMs for open ended medical question answering
Mar 7, 2024Saeel Sandeep Nachane, Ojas Gramopadhye, Prateek Chanda +5Healthcare Medical Diagnosis
2Indian Institute of Technology Bombay · 1IBM Research
ReasoningFlow: Discourse Structures for Understanding LLM Reasoning Traces
Date pendingJinu Lee, Shivam Agarwal, Amruta Parulekar +3LLM Reasoning with Graphs LLM Auditing
The Grainger College of Engineering University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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CurveBench: A Benchmark for Exact Topological Reasoning over Nested Jordan Curves

Amirreza Mohseni, Mona Mohammadi, Morteza Saghafian, Naser Talebizadeh Sardari

Maastricht University · Cornell University · TU Wien+1

VLM Evaluation Spatial Reasoning Benchmarks Visual Spatial Reasoning Visual Reasoning Structured Reasoning Visually Grounded Reasoning

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We introduce CurveBench, a benchmark for hierarchical topological reasoning from visual input. CurveBench consists of \textbf{756 images} of pairwise non-intersecting Jordan curves across easy, polygonal, topographic-inspired, maze-like, and dense counting configurations. Each image is annotated with a rooted tree encoding the containment relations between planar regions. We formulate the task as structured prediction: given an image, a model must recover the full rooted containment tree induced by the curves. Despite the visual simplicity of the task, the strongest evaluated model, Gemini 3.1 Pro, achieves only \textbf{71.1%} tree-generation accuracy on CurveBench-Easy and \textbf{19.1%} on CurveBench-Hard. We further demonstrate benchmark utility through RLVR-style fine-tuning of open-weight vision-language models. Our trained Qwen3-VL-8B model improves over \texttt{Qwen-3-VL-8B-Thinking} from \textbf{2.8%} to \textbf{33.3%} tree-generation accuracy on CurveBench-Easy, exceeding GPT-5.4 and Claude Opus 4.5 under our evaluation protocol. The remaining gap, especially on CurveBench-Hard, shows that exact topology-aware visual reasoning remains far from solved.

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