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  1. Learning from Think-Mode Advantage via On-Policy Distillation

    Sep 29, 2026Wanqi Ren, Jianxiang Wang, Danxuan Liu +2Efficient On-Policy DistillationLLM Reasoning Strategies

    ByteDance, China

  2. Mnemon: Raw Records, Fast Judgments, Slow Thoughts

    Sep 28, 2026Guangren WangAgentic MemoryPeak Memory

  3. Next Thoughts Are Distributions: Generative Autoregressive Reasoning in the Latent Space

    Sep 27, 2026Yang Li, Yi Wang, Shiyuan Huang +3ThoughtsReasoning Skills

    Rutgers University · Amazon · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  4. Your Transformer Can Hold Two Thoughts at Once: Evidence of Linear Superposition in LLMs

    Sep 24, 2026Pavel Tikhonov, Anton Korznikov, Matvey Mikhalchuk +6Transformer ArchitecturesNext-Token Distribution

  5. Ladders of Thought: A Self-Evolving Curriculum of Progressively Simplified Reasoning Traces

    Sep 22, 2026Minghui Liu, Thomas Magelinski, Dehao Yuan +2LLM Reasoning StrategiesThoughts

    University of Maryland, College Park · Capital One

  6. Learn Your Own Thoughts: Abstract Token Curriculum

    Sep 17, 2026Khashayar Gatmiry, Avrajit Ghosh, Parsa Mirtaheri +4ThoughtsToken-Level Supervision

    UC San Diego · Google DeepMind and UC Berkeley

  7. A Model with No Head and Many Thoughts

    Aug 31, 2026Nikita Koriagin, Yaroslav Aksenov, George Bredis +3Latent ThoughtsThoughts

    1Yandex · 2T-Tech

  8. Social Chain of Thought: A Multi-Agent Architecture Grounded in Medical Differential Diagnosis Methodology

    Aug 11, 2026Del Coburn, Scott Sanner, Dan SilverDiagnosisDeliberation

    Department of Sociology University of Toronto · Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering University of Toronto

  9. Fusion Training for Mathematical Generalization in Large Language Models

    Aug 10, 2026Congfeng Cao, Pengyu Zhang, Jelke BloemLarge Language Model TrainingThoughts

    Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam · INDE Lab, University of Amsterdam

  10. Emergence Invariance: From Symbolized Thought to Structural Control

    Aug 3, 2026Yi LiuThoughtsEnrichment Analysis

    School of Astronomy and Space Science, University of Science and Technology of China

  11. Translation with Thought: Difficulty-Adaptive Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Domain Machine Translation

    Jul 31, 2026Yongshi Ye, Biao Fu, Chongxuan Huang +2Machine TranslationTranslation Quality

    Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Xiamen University · School of Informatics, Xiamen University · Key Laboratory of Digital Protection and Intelligent Processing of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Fujian and Taiwan (Xiamen University), Ministry of Culture and Tourism

  12. Think Sparse, Predict Dense: Continuous Thought Machines for Image Super-Resolution

    Jul 21, 2026Zekai ShiDenseThoughts

    Xi’an Jiaotong University

  13. Quantifying Diversity of Thought: A Predictive Law of Weighted LLM Ensemble Lift

    Jul 19, 2026Junade AliEnsembleDiversity

    Defence and National Security Programme The Alan Turing Institute London, United Kingdom

  14. Answer-Conditioned Chains of Thought Degrade Verifiable-Reasoning Distillation in Large Language Models

    Jul 16, 2026Jungseob Lee, Seungyoon Lee, Suhyune Son +4LLM Reasoning StrategiesReasoning Skills

    1Korea University · 2Zoom Communications · 3Yonsei University

  15. When Thinking Hurts: Epistemic Signals in the Reasoning Chains of Visual Language Models

    Jul 9, 2026Mayank SingalThoughtsVisual Reasoning

    Independent Researcher.

  16. Rethinking On-Policy Self-Distillation for Thinking Models

    Jul 6, 2026Simran Kaur, Narutatsu Ri, Yinghui He +2Unsupervised On-Policy Self-DistillationLarge Reasoning Models

    Princeton Language and Intelligence, Princeton University

  17. MentalThink: Shaping Thoughts in Mental SVG World

    Jul 3, 2026Kangheng Lin, Jisheng Yin, Dingming Li +11ThinkImagination

    State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · StepFun

  18. TUDUM: A Turkish-Thinking Reasoning Pipeline for Qwen3.5-27B

    Jul 2, 2026Baran Bingol, Bahaeddin TurkogluThoughts

    Department of Artificial Intelligence and Data Engineering Faculty of Engineering Ankara University Ankara, Türkiye

  19. Fork-Think with Confidence

    Jun 30, 2026Zena Al-Khalili, Rafi Hakim, Dietrich Klakow +1ThinkThoughts

    Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarland University, Germany

  20. Model Forensics: Investigating Whether Concerning Behavior Reflects Misalignment

    Jun 24, 2026Aditya Singh, Gerson Kroiz, Senthooran Rajamanoharan +1Agent Behavior ModelingDigital Forensics

    MATS · Google DeepMind

  21. Scheduling Thoughts: Learning the Order of Thought in Diffusion Language Models

    Jun 22, 2026Jiawei Xu, Minghui Liu, Aakriti Agrawal +2Diffusion Language ModelsMasked Diffusion Language Models

    University of Maryland, College Park · University of California, Los Angeles.

  22. Can Reasoning Models Detect Changes to their Chains of Thought?

    Jun 20, 2026Sathvik Napa, Utkarsh Singh, Chengyuan Xue +2Large Reasoning ModelsChain-of-Thought Reasoning

    Johns Hopkins University

  23. When the Chain of Thought Knows Better: Failure Modes in Multi-Turn Reasoning Models

    Jun 9, 2026Sai Kartheek Reddy Kasu, Nils Lukas, Samuele PoppiFaithful ExplanationLatent Failure Patterns

    Independent Researcher · Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)

  24. Why Limit the Residual Stream to Layers and Not Tokens? Persistent Memory for Continuous Latent Reasoning

    Jun 5, 2026Mujtaba Farhan, Maheep ChaudharyEfficient Latent ReasoningThoughts

    1Algoverse AI Research · 2Independent

  25. Continuous Audio Thinking for Large Audio Language Models

    Jun 5, 2026Gyojin Han, Dong-Jae Lee, Changho Choi +2Large Audio Language ModelsAudio Understanding

    KAIST, South Korea

  26. VTI-CoT: Visual-Textual Interleaved Chain of Thought for Video Reasoning

    Jun 4, 2026Shufan Zhang, Ziyue Lin, Bairun Wang +4Video UnderstandingChain-of-Thought Reasoning

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · University of Hong Kong · Beijing Shanwei Zhixing Technology Co., Ltd. +2

  27. Thinking as Compression: Your Reasoning Model is Secretly a Context Compressor

    May 27, 2026Guoxin Ma, Yibing Liu, Chengzhengxu Li +7Efficient Long-Context InferenceLLM Inference Optimization

    Baidu Inc., Beijing, China · Xi’an Jiaotong University · City University of Hong Kong +1

  28. Tree of Thoughts as a Classical Heuristic Search Problem: Formal Foundations and Design Patterns

    May 27, 2026Guni SharonTree-Of-ThoughtsLLM Reasoning Strategies

    Texas A&M University

  29. HRBench: Benchmarking and Understanding Thinking-Mode Switch Strategies in Hybrid-Reasoning LLMs

    May 27, 2026Yansong Ning, Mianpeng Liu, Jingwen Ye +2Reasoning BenchmarkLarge Language Model Benchmarks

    AI Thrust, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · AIPD, Tencent

  30. Echoes within the Reasoning: Stealthy and Effective Watermarking via Chain of Thought

    May 27, 2026Jiacheng Lu, Yiming Li, Tao Song +4WatermarkingWatermarks

    School of Computer Science, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China · Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · National University of Singapore, Singapore

  31. Reinforced Graph of Thoughts: RL-Driven Adaptive Prompting for LLMs

    May 21, 2026Manuel Noah Riesen, Peter Alfred von NiederhäusernLarge Language Model Reinforcement LearningLLM Reasoning Strategies

    School of Engineering and Computer Science Bern University of Applied Sciences Bern, Switzerland

  32. Ablate-to-Validate: Are Vision-Language Models Really Using Continuous Thought Tokens?

    May 20, 2026Tianyi Zhang, Mahtab Bigverdi, Ranjay KrishnaCompact Latent Sensor TokensVisual Reasoning

    University of Washington

  33. MindLoom: Composing Thought Modes for Frontier-Level Reasoning Data Synthesis

    May 20, 2026Haiyang Shen, Taian Guo, Xuanzhong Chen +11Table Reasoning DatasetsThoughts

    1Peking University · 2Tsinghua University

  34. On the Cost and Benefit of Chain of Thought: A Learning-Theoretic Perspective

    May 20, 2026Yue Zhang, Zhiyi Dong, Tommaso Cesari +1Reasoning TrajectoryThoughts

    University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

  35. Atoms of Thought: Universal EEG Representation Learning with Microstates

    May 19, 2026Xinyang Tian, Ruitao Liu, Ziyi Ye +3NeuroscienceRepresentation Learning

  36. ThoughtTrace: Understanding User Thoughts in Real-World LLM Interactions

    May 19, 2026Chuanyang Jin, Binze Li, Haopeng Xie +6ThoughtsConversational Artificial Intelligence

    Johns Hopkins University · Massachusetts Institute of Technology · Google Research

  37. Beyond Fixed Budgets: Characterizing the Inelasticity and Limitations of Tree-of-Thought Reasoning Strategies

    May 19, 2026Atkia Mahila, Avinash Maurya, M. Mustafa Rafique +1LLM Reasoning StrategiesMonte Carlo Tree Search

    Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, USA · Argonne National Laboratory Lemont, USA

  38. Protein Thoughts: Interpretable Reasoning with Tree of Thoughts and Embedding-Space Flow Matching for Protein-Protein Interaction Discovery

    May 19, 2026Kingsley Yeon, Xuefeng Liu, Promit GhosalBiomedical Knowledge GraphTree Search

    Department of Statistics and CCAM University of Chicago Chicago, IL 60637 · School of Medicine Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 · Department of Statistics University of Chicago Chicago, IL 60637

  39. ACIL: Auto Chain of Thoughts for In-Context Learning

    May 16, 2026Rui ChuLLM Reasoning StrategiesLarge Reasoning Models

  40. Are VLMs Seeing or Just Saying? Uncovering the Illusion of Visual Re-examination

    May 15, 2026Chufan Shi, Cheng Yang, Yaokang Wu +4Vision-Language Foundation ModelsIllusions

    University of Southern California · University of California San Diego · Carnegie Mellon Univer +1

  41. Multi-Stream LLMs: Unblocking Language Models with Parallel Streams of Thoughts, Inputs and Outputs

    May 12, 2026Guinan Su, Yanwu Yang, Xueyan Li +1Artificial Intelligence AgentsThoughts

    Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems · University Hospital Tübingen · University of Tübingen +3

  42. Teaching Thinking Models to Reason with Tools: A Full-Pipeline Recipe for Tool-Integrated Reasoning

    May 7, 2026Qianjia Cheng, Yuchen Zhang, Zhilin Wang +9Reasoning SkillsThoughts

    Zhejiang University · Shanghai AI Laboratory · Peking University +4

  43. LatentRAG: Latent Reasoning and Retrieval for Efficient Agentic RAG

    May 7, 2026Yijia Zheng, Marcel WorringAgentic Retrieval-Augmented Generation SystemsThoughts

    University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  44. How Does Thinking Mode Change LLM Moral Judgments? A Controlled Instant-vs-Thinking Comparison Across Five Frontier Models

    May 6, 2026Sai Sourabh MadurMoral ReasoningReasoning Skills

    Independent researcher (ex-Meta)

  45. Path-Lock Expert: Separating Reasoning Mode in Hybrid Thinking via Architecture-Level Separation

    Apr 29, 2026Shouren Wang, Wang Yang, Chuang Ma +7ThoughtsLock-In

    1Case Western Reserve University · 2NII LLMC, Japan · 3Michigan State University

  46. Shorthand for Thought: Compressing LLM Reasoning via Entropy-Guided Supertokens

    Apr 29, 2026Zhenyu Zhao, Sander Land, Daniel M. Bikel +1LLM Reasoning StrategiesReasoning Traces

    Writer, Inc.

  47. CAP-CoT: Cycle Adversarial Prompt for Improving Chain of Thoughts in LLM Reasoning

    Apr 25, 2026Shuxu Chen, Yitian Zhou, Jiaquan Zhang +6Adversarial PromptsLLM Reasoning Strategies

    Department of Electronics and Information Convergence Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Republic of Korea · University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China · East China Jiaotong University, Nanchang, China +1

  48. SketchVLM: Vision language models can annotate images to explain thoughts and guide users

    Apr 23, 2026Brandon Collins, Logan Bolton, Hung Huy Nguyen +3Visual ReasoningSketches

    Auburn University · Adobe Research

  49. ThreadSumm: Summarization of Nested Discourse Threads Using Tree of Thoughts

    Apr 19, 2026Olubusayo Olabisi, Ekata Mitra, Ameeta AgrawalSummarizationDiscourse

    Department of Computer Science, Portland State University, USA

  50. Probabilistic Programs of Thought

    Apr 19, 2026Poorva Garg, Renato Lui Geh, Daniel Israel +3Code GenerationLLM Reasoning Strategies

    University of California Los Angeles · Allen Institute for AI

  51. Real-Time Visual Attribution Streaming in Thinking Model

    Apr 17, 2026Seil Kang, Woojung Han, Junhyeok Kim +3Visual EvidenceThoughts

    YYonsei University. · AAmazon.

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

    Apr 17, 2026Wenshuo WangLLM Reasoning StrategiesReasoning Skills

    School of Future Technology, South China University of Technology, China

  53. Analyzing Chain of Thought (CoT) Approaches in Control Flow Code Deobfuscation Tasks

    Apr 16, 2026Seyedreza Mohseni, Sarvesh Baskar, Edward Raff +1Reverse EngineeringObfuscation

    University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, USA · CrowdStrike, New York, USA

  54. Framework of Thoughts: A Foundation Framework for Dynamic and Optimized Reasoning based on Chains, Trees, and Graphs

    Feb 18, 2026Felix Fricke, Simon Malberg, Georg GrohTree-Of-ThoughtsThoughts

    School of Computation, Information and Technology Technical University of Munich

  55. NEST: Nascent Encoded Steganographic Thoughts

    Feb 15, 2026Artem KarpovSteganographyChain-of-Thought Reasoning

    Independent.

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

    Jan 28, 2026Zhengbo Jiao, Hongyu Xian, Qinglong Wang +5LLM Reasoning StrategiesLarge Language Model Policy Optimization

    Zhejiang University · South China Normal University · Shanghai University of Finance and Economics +2

  57. Base Models Know How to Reason, Thinking Models Learn When

    Oct 8, 2025Constantin Venhoff, Iván Arcuschin, Philip Torr +2Large Reasoning ModelsReasoning Skills

    University of Oxford, UK · MATS · Poseidon Research.

  58. HoT: Highlighted Chain of Thought for Referencing Supporting Facts from Inputs

    Mar 3, 2025Tin Nguyen, Logan Bolton, Mohammad Reza Taesiri +2Large Language Model HallucinationLarge Language Model Responses

    Auburn University · University of Alberta