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DeepLatent: Think with Images via Parallel Latent Visual Reasoning

arXiv:2606.00562v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The emerging paradigm of 'thinking with images' embeds visual states into intermediate reasoning steps, defining a new frontier for Vision-Language Mode

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Evaluating Interactive Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Hierarchical Benchmark with Executable Games

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arXiv:2606.00103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce a multi-turn interactive framework for reasoning evaluation that treats reasoning as active evidence acquisition and belief updating. Where

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2 Jun 2026

FeynmanBench: Benchmarking Multimodal LLMs on Diagrammatic Physics Reasoning

arXiv:2604.03893v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Current multimodal benchmarks for scientific reasoning primarily evaluate local information extraction -- models recognize symbols and values and th

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MindZero: Learning Online Mental Reasoning With Zero Annotations

arXiv:2606.00240v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective real-world assistance requires AI agents with robust Theory of Mind (ToM): inferring human mental states from their behavior. Despite recent a

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OncoReason: Structuring Clinical Reasoning in LLMs for Robust and Interpretable Survival Prediction

arXiv:2510.17532v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Predicting cancer treatment outcomes requires models that are both accurate and interpretable, particularly in the presence of heterogeneous clinica

Ontology-Guided Reasoning for Affordance-Based Explanations of Robot Navigation

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arXiv:2606.00117v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper proposes ontology-guided reasoning for affordance-based explanations of robot navigation. In human environments, it is not sufficient for a r

Tutorials

Richer Representations for Neural Algorithmic Reasoning via Auxiliary Reconstruction

arXiv:2606.00559v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural algorithmic reasoning has emerged as a popular research direction. It aims to train neural networks to mimic the step-by-step behavior of class

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SmartThinker: Progressive Chain-of-Thought Length Calibration for Efficient Large Language Model Reasoning

arXiv:2603.08000v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large reasoning models (LRMs) like OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek-R1 achieve high accuracy on complex tasks by adopting long chain-of-thought (CoT) reasonin

SpaceTools: Tool-Augmented Spatial Reasoning via Double Interactive RL

arXiv:2512.04069v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate strong qualitative visual understanding, but struggle with metrically precise spatial reasoning required f

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Statistical Guarantees for Reasoning Probes on Looped Boolean Circuits

arXiv:2602.03970v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study the statistical behavior of reasoning probes in a stylized model of iterative computation inspired by neural algorithmic reasoning. T

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StemBind: When MLLMs Get Lost Between Rules and Instances in Abstract Visual Reasoning

arXiv:2606.00148v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) often know the rule but pick the wrong answer: on abstract visual reasoning (AVR) tasks, a model can describe

Verifying Meta-Awareness via Predictive Rewards in Reasoning Models

arXiv:2510.03259v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent research on reasoning models explores the meta-awareness of language models, including their ability to determine optimal thinking dura

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Beyond Test-Time Memory: State-Space Optimal Control for LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2603.09221v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Associative memory has long underpinned the design of sequential models. Beyond recall, humans reason by projecting future states and selecting goal

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FEM-Bench: A Structured Scientific Reasoning Benchmark for Evaluating Code-Generating LLMs

arXiv:2512.20732v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As LLMs advance their reasoning capabilities about the physical world, the absence of rigorous benchmarks for evaluating their ability to gene

IAPO: Information-Aware Policy Optimization for Token-Efficient Reasoning

arXiv:2602.19049v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models increasingly rely on long chains of thought to improve accuracy, yet such gains come with substantial inference-time costs. We

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Symbolic Intermediaries as a Linguistic-Numerical Interface for LLM-Driven Geometric Reasoning

arXiv:2505.17607v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) display reasoning capabilities over linguistic and symbolic objects but have limited capabilities to directly interpret

Conformal Certification of Reasoning Trace Prefixes

arXiv:2605.30085v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language model reasoning traces are rarely all-or-nothing; they frequently contain valid intermediate steps before a critical error occurs. Existing unc

KairosAgent: Agentic Time Series Forecasting with Fused Semantic Reasoning

arXiv:2605.30002v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-domain multimodal time series forecasting is a challenging task, requiring models to integrate precise numerical comprehension, cross-domain seman

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Reasoning Theater: Disentangling Model Beliefs from Chain-of-Thought

arXiv:2603.05488v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We provide evidence of performative chain-of-thought (CoT) in reasoning models, where a model becomes strongly confident in its final answer,

TRACE: Toulmin-based Reasoning Assessment through Constructive Elements for LLM CoT Evaluation

arXiv:2605.29656v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating open-ended outputs from large language models (LLMs) remains challenging due to the absence of ground truth. Existing metrics rely on final-a

Atomic Skills are the Prerequisite: When Reinforcement Learning Synthesizes Compositional Reasoning, and When It Only Amplifies

arXiv:2512.01970v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Does Reinforcement Learning (RL) merely amplify existing skills, or synthesize novel skills? We investigate this question through the lens of Comple

Do LLMs Build World Models From Text? A Multilingual Diagnostic of Spatial Reasoning

arXiv:2605.28277v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Whether large language models (LLMs) construct internal spatial world models from pure-text descriptions remains contested, and whether such capabilitie

Escape the Language Prior: Mitigating Late-Stage Modality Collapse in Audio Reasoning via Modality-Aware Policy Optimization

arXiv:2605.27741v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Audio and omni-modal large language models exhibit impressive cross-modal reasoning capabilities. However, applying standard reinforcement learning post

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GeneralThinker: Domain-General Reasoning through Likelihood-Guided Answer-Conditioned Optimization

arXiv:2605.27934v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards improves language model reasoning, but its reliance on domain-specific verifiers, sparse outcome rewards,

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LegalGraphRAG: Multi-Agent Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Reliable Legal Reasoning

arXiv:2605.28120v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation (GraphRAG) advances flat document retrieval by structuring knowledge as relational graphs, enabling more co

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Mags-RL: Wearing Multimodal LLMs a Magnifying Glass via Agentic Reinforcement Learning For Complex Scene Reasoning

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arXiv:2605.27960v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite their popularity and success, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) often struggle to interpret images accurately, which limits their reasoni

Mitigating Adaptive Attacks against Reasoning Models with Activation Consistency Training

arXiv:2605.28467v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLMs gain stronger reasoning capabilities, their extended chain-of-thought introduces new degrees of complexity for defending against adversarial jai

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Revisiting Anthropomorphic Reflection Markers in Large Language Model Reasoning

arXiv:2605.28305v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) often produce explicit reflective traces during complex reasoning, accompanied by anthropomorphic markers such as wait, h

Satisfiability Solving with LLMs: A Matched-Pair Evaluation of Reasoning Capability

arXiv:2605.28602v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for tasks that implicitly reduce to Boolean satisfiability (SAT), yet their reasoning ability on SAT

Zipping the Thought: When and How Compressed Reasoning Data Works in LLM Post-Training

arXiv:2605.28008v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) can now solve complex problems through long chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, but the trade-off between performance and tok

EpiQAL: Benchmarking Large Language Models in Epidemiological Question Answering and Reasoning

arXiv:2601.03471v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reliable epidemiological reasoning requires synthesizing study evidence to infer disease burden, transmission dynamics, and intervention effec

Tutorials

How and What to Imagine? Visual Thinking in Unified Multimodal Models for Cross-View Spatial Reasoning

arXiv:2605.27310v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Cross-view spatial reasoning remains a weak spot for vision-language models (VLMs): they often reason in language and lose the fine-grained geometry nee

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LaRe: Latent Refocusing for Multimodal Reasoning

arXiv:2511.02360v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Chain of Thought (CoT) reasoning enhances logical performance by decomposing complex tasks, yet its multimodal extension faces a trade-off. Th

SpaceVista: All-Scale Visual Spatial Reasoning from mm to km

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arXiv:2510.09606v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With the current surge in spatial reasoning explorations, researchers have made significant progress in understanding indoor scenes, but still strug

Agent-ToM: Learning to Monitor Autonomous LLM Agents via Theory-of-Mind Reasoning

arXiv:2605.24216v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Monitoring autonomous large language model (LLM) agents for covert malicious behavior is challenging due to delayed, context-dependent, and long-horiz

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AgentCoMa: A Compositional Benchmark Mixing Commonsense and Mathematical Reasoning in Real-World Scenarios

arXiv:2508.19988v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved high accuracy on complex commonsense and mathematical problems that involve the composition of multiple r

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Credit Assignment with Resets in Language Model Reasoning

arXiv:2605.25507v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contemporary reinforcement learning with verifiable reward methods post-train language models on multi-step reasoning by assigning a single outcome rewa

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DRIVE: Modeling Skills at the Reasoning and Interaction Levels for Web Agents under Continual Learning

arXiv:2605.23939v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Web agents require both high-level reasoning (for task decomposition) and low-level interactions (for page elements manipulation) to conduct different t

Knowledge Graph-Driven Expert-Level Reasoning for Neuroscience

arXiv:2605.25183v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Knowledge graph (KG) is an abstraction that can be extracted from text corpora and used for in-depth reasoning. Prior work has leveraged KGs to fine-t

LC-ERD: Mining Latent Logic for Self-Evolving Reasoning via Consistency-Regulated Reward Decomposition

arXiv:2605.24005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The evolution of Large Language Model (LLM) reasoning is bottlenecked by the scarcity of high-quality process data. While self-alignment via endogenous

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Scaling-Aware Adapter for Structure-Grounded LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2602.02780v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are enabling reasoning over 2D and 3D structures, yet existing methods remain modality-specific and typically compress

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Tutorials

Diverge to Induce Prompting: Multi-Rationale Induction for Zero-Shot Reasoning

arXiv:2602.08028v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: To address the instability of unguided reasoning paths in standard Chain-of-Thought prompting, recent methods guide large language models (LLMs) by fi

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Enhancing Gaze Reasoning in Vision Foundation Models for Gaze Following

arXiv:2605.22607v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gaze following requires both scene understanding and gaze reasoning to localize the gaze target of an in-scene person. Recently, vision foundation model

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General Agentic Planning Through Simulative Reasoning with World Models

arXiv:2507.23773v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: What does it mean to plan? Current agentic systems, whether scaffolded workflows or end-to-end policies, rely on reactive decision-making: sel

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VGenST-Bench: A Benchmark for Spatio-Temporal Reasoning via Active Video Synthesis

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arXiv:2605.22570v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatio-temporal reasoning is a core capability for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) operating in the real world. As such, evaluating it precisel

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Interaction Locality in Hierarchical Recursive Reasoning

arXiv:2605.20784v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatial reasoning requires both location-bound computation and location-invariant structure: agents must make local moves while preserving route, obje

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21 May 2026

iReasoner: Trajectory-Aware Intrinsic Reasoning Supervision for Self-Evolving Large Multimodal Models

arXiv:2601.05877v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent work shows that large multimodal models (LMMs) can self-improve from unlabeled data via self-play and intrinsic feedback. Yet existing self-e

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21 May 2026

CoLD: Counterfactually-Guided Length Debiasing for Process Reward Models in Mathematical Reasoning