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Macaron: Controlled, Human-Written Benchmark for Multilingual and Multicultural Reasoning via Template-Filling

arXiv:2602.10732v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multilingual benchmarks rarely test reasoning over culturally grounded premises: translated datasets keep English-centric scenarios, while culture-f

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MMErroR: A Benchmark for Erroneous Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

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arXiv:2601.03331v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have improved performance in multi-modal learning, raising the question of whether these models tru

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21 Apr 2026

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PiERN: Token-Level Routing for Integrating High-Precision Computation and Reasoning

arXiv:2509.18169v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Tasks on complex systems require high-precision numerical computation to support decisions, but current large language models (LLMs) cannot in

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QU-NLP at QIAS 2026: Multi-Stage QLoRA Fine-Tuning for Arabic Islamic Inheritance Reasoning

arXiv:2604.16396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Islamic inheritance law (ilm al-mawar{i}th) presents a challenging domain for evaluating large language models' structured reasoning capabilities, requi

ReFineVLA: Multimodal Reasoning-Aware Generalist Robotic Policies via Teacher-Guided Fine-Tuning

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arXiv:2604.17800v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have gained much attention from the research community thanks to their strength in translating multimodal observat

ReTraceQA: Evaluating Reasoning Traces of Small Language Models in Commonsense Question Answering

arXiv:2510.09351v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: While Small Language Models (SLMs) have demonstrated promising performance on an increasingly wide array of commonsense reasoning benchmarks, curren

RoTRAG: Rule of Thumb Reasoning for Conversation Harm Detection with Retrieval-Augmented Generation

arXiv:2604.17301v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Detecting harmful content in multi turn dialogue requires reasoning over the full conversational context rather than isolated utterances. However, most

Beyond a Single Frame: Multi-Frame Spatially Grounded Reasoning Across Volumetric MRI

arXiv:2604.15808v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatial reasoning and visual grounding are core capabilities for vision-language models (VLMs), yet most medical VLMs produce predictions without tran

20 Apr 2026

Curing Miracle Steps in LLM Mathematical Reasoning with Rubric Rewards

arXiv:2510.07774v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In this paper, we observe that current models are susceptible to reward hacking, leading to a substantial overestimation of a model's reasoning abil

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20 Apr 2026

Flexible Empowerment at Reasoning with Extended Best-of-N Sampling

arXiv:2604.15614v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper proposes a novel method that incorporates empowerment when reasoning actions in reinforcement learning (RL), thereby achieving the flexibilit

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20 Apr 2026

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Dissecting Failure Dynamics in Large Language Model Reasoning

arXiv:2604.14528v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve strong performance through extended inference-time deliberation, yet how their reasoning failures arise remains p

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17 Apr 2026

AIM-CoT: Active Information-driven Multimodal Chain-of-Thought for Vision-Language Reasoning

arXiv:2509.25699v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Interleaved-Modal Chain-of-Thought (I-MCoT) advances vision-language reasoning, such as Visual Question Answering (VQA). This paradigm integrates sp

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16 Apr 2026

When 'YES' Meets 'BUT': Can Large Models Comprehend Contradictory Humor Through Comparative Reasoning?

arXiv:2503.23137v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Understanding humor-particularly when it involves complex, contradictory narratives that require comparative reasoning-remains a significant c

16 Apr 2026

Calibration-Aware Policy Optimization for Reasoning LLMs

arXiv:2604.12632v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) enhances LLM reasoning but often induces overconfidence, where incorrect responses yield lower perplexity th

15 Apr 2026

Mid-training is essential for LLM reasoning, IBM study shows

IBM Research has demonstrated that mid-training — a dedicated training phase between initial pre-training and fine-tuning — is essential for improving reasoning capabilities in large language models (

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15 Apr 2026

When Reasoning Models Hurt Behavioral Simulation: A Solver-Sampler Mismatch in Multi-Agent LLM Negotiation

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arXiv:2604.11840v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used as agents in social, economic, and policy simulations. A common assumption is that stronger reasoning should

15 Apr 2026

A Progressive Training Strategy for Vision-Language Models to Counteract Spatio-Temporal Hallucinations in Embodied Reasoning

arXiv:2604.10506v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have made significant strides in static image understanding but continue to face critical hurdles in spatiotemporal reason

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Belief-Aware VLM Model for Human-like Reasoning

arXiv:2604.09686v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traditional neural network models for intent inference rely heavily on observable states and struggle to generalize across diverse tasks and dynamic env

LAST: Leveraging Tools as Hints to Enhance Spatial Reasoning for Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2604.09712v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatial reasoning is a cornerstone capability for intelligent systems to perceive and interact with the physical world. However, multimodal large lang

MASS: Motion-Aware Spatial-Temporal Grounding for Physics Reasoning and Comprehension in Vision-Language Models

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arXiv:2511.18373v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision Language Models (VLMs) perform well on standard video tasks but struggle with physics-related reasoning involving motion dynamics and spatial

No agent maintained moral reasoning consistency across scenarios. Findings from a structured study with 11 agents on classic ethical dilemmas [R]

No agent maintained moral reasoning consistency across scenarios. Findings from a structured study with 11 agents on classic ethical dilemmas [R]

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RationalRewards: Reasoning Rewards Scale Visual Generation Both Training and Test Time

arXiv:2604.11626v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Most reward models for visual generation reduce rich human judgments to a single unexplained score, discarding the reasoning that underlies preference.

E3-TIR: Enhanced Experience Exploitation for Tool-Integrated Reasoning

arXiv:2604.09455v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated significant potential in Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR), existing training paradigms face signific

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Process Reward Agents for Steering Knowledge-Intensive Reasoning

arXiv:2604.09482v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning in knowledge-intensive domains remains challenging as intermediate steps are often not locally verifiable: unlike math or code, evaluating ste

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Reasoning Provenance for Autonomous AI Agents: Structured Behavioral Analytics Beyond State Checkpoints and Execution Traces

arXiv:2603.21692v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As AI agents transition from human-supervised copilots to autonomous platform infrastructure, the ability to analyze their reasoning behavior across

Reinforcement-aware Knowledge Distillation for LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2602.22495v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training has recently driven major gains in long chain-of-thought reasoning large language models (LLMs), but

Structuring versus Problematizing: How LLM-based Agents Scaffold Learning in Diagnostic Reasoning

arXiv:2604.09158v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Supporting students in developing diagnostic reasoning is a key challenge across educational domains. Novices often face cognitive biases such as prem

Brain3D: EEG-to-3D Decoding of Visual Representations via Multimodal Reasoning

arXiv:2604.08068v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Decoding visual information from electroencephalography (EEG) has recently achieved promising results, primarily focusing on reconstructing two-dimensio

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Enabling Intrinsic Reasoning over Dense Geospatial Embeddings with DFR-Gemma

arXiv:2604.07490v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Representation learning for geospatial and spatio-temporal data plays a critical role in enabling general-purpose geospatial intelligence. Recent geospa

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GraphWalker: Graph-Guided In-Context Learning for Clinical Reasoning on Electronic Health Records

arXiv:2604.06684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Clinical Reasoning on Electronic Health Records (EHRs) is a fundamental yet challenging task in modern healthcare. While in-context learning (ICL) offer

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STRIDE-ED: A Strategy-Grounded Stepwise Reasoning Framework for Empathetic Dialogue Systems

arXiv:2604.07100v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Empathetic dialogue requires not only recognizing a user's emotional state but also making strategy-aware, context-sensitive decisions throughout resp

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The Stepwise Informativeness Assumption: Why are Entropy Dynamics and Reasoning Correlated in LLMs?

arXiv:2604.06192v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent work uses entropy-based signals at multiple representation levels to study reasoning in large language models, but the field remains largely em

CoTranslator: Reverse to Forward Chain-of-Thought Translator for Reasoning Distillation

arXiv:2610.20828v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning distillation requires chain-of-thought (CoT) data with correct answers, but obtaining such data efficiently remains challenging. Forward CoT

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Evaluating Inquiry Learning in LLM-Based Agents: Hypothesizing, Reasoning, and Exploration

arXiv:2610.21604v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific inquiry involves iterative cycles of exploration, hypothesis generation, and reasoning over observations to uncover relationships in complex

LLM-as-an-Investigator: Evidence-First Agentic Reasoning for Robust Interactive Problem Diagnosis

arXiv:2606.13220v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are used for technical troubleshooting, where problem descriptions are often incomplete and multiple causes can explain

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QREF: Improving DeepSearch Agents by Aligning Search with Reasoning via Query Refinement and Evidence Filtering

arXiv:2610.21512v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: DeepSearch agents achieve strong performance on complex information-seeking tasks through iterative search and reasoning. However, they often issue inte

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Meet NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Our new open model combines reasoning and tool use with text, image, document, and video understanding for…

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Meet NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Our new open model combines reasoning and tool use with text, image, document, and video understanding for long-running AI agents. 120B total parameters with 12B acti

MemDuet: Learning Dual-Process Memory for Long-Context Reasoning

arXiv:2610.19928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning over infinitely long documents is becoming a reality with recurrent memory agents. However, increasing context length exacerbates the trade-of

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MolLean: A Process-Verifiable Language for Chemical Reasoning

arXiv:2610.20459v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chemical chain-of-thought can contain hallucinated structural and property claims. We thereby introduce MolLean, a process-verifiable language that grou

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NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is now available on Ollama This model combines reasoning and visual understanding across a range of agent workf…

NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is now available on Ollama This model combines reasoning and visual understanding across a range of agent workflows. On a single GPU, this model delivers up to 5x higher t

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NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL Powers Specialized Agents with Multimodal Reasoning

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NVIDIA’s open‑source Nemotron 3.5 Super VL is a 120 B parameter mixture‑of‑experts multimodal model that activates only 12 B parameters per token, enabling combined reasoning, instruction following, t

PsyMemBehav: Psychology-Informed and Memory-Grounded Two-Level Identity-to-Action Reasoning for Social-Media Behavior Simulation

arXiv:2610.14570v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) support social simulation, but faithfully reproducing real users requires grounding both structured platform decisions and

Towards a Data-Centric Understanding of Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2610.19108v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have been widely applied in embodied agents and robotics for vision tasks. However, MLLMs suffer from limitat

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Anchors Enhance Controllability and Reasoning of Diffusion Language Models

arXiv:2610.15097v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion language models (DLMs) offer new opportunities for controllable text generation. However, their controllability, defined as the ability to sat

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Does Seeing More Mean Knowing More? Mono-Anchored Advantage Normalization for Multi-Source Visual Reasoning

arXiv:2605.25437v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual reasoning through reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has achieved remarkable progress. However, when dealing with multi-so

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Process Rewards for Outcome-Guided Reasoning Steps in LLM Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2604.02341v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Mathematical reasoning in large language models has improved substantially with reinforcement learning using verifiable rewards, where final answers

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SceneForesee: Learning Scene Evolution for Spatiotemporal Reasoning

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arXiv:2610.14439v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large multimodal models (LMMs) need to understand how entities move and interact as a scene develops. This requires following the same entities over tim

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Enhancing Legal Reasoning in Pre-trained Language Models via Knowledge Graph-Guided Multi-Task Pre-training