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Mining or Synthesis? Rethinking Exploration Efficiency in Iterative Alignment of Mathematical Reasoning

arXiv:2602.05370v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Iterative Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has emerged as a widely used paradigm for aligning Large Language Models on reasoning tasks. Existing

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OmniMatBench: A Human-Calibrated Multimodal Reasoning Benchmark Across 19 Materials Science Subfields

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arXiv:2605.29833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As multimodal language models play an increasingly important role in scientific research, materials science offers a critical testbed due to its interdi

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BenGER: Benchmarking LLM Systems on Subsumption-Based Legal Reasoning in German Law

arXiv:2605.28183v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce the BenGER (Benchmark for German Law) dataset for evaluating LLM systems on subsumption-based legal reasoning in German law. The BenGER d

FABSVer: Faster Training and Better Self-Verification for LLM Mathematical Reasoning

arXiv:2605.28389v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While large language models have made significant progress in mathematical reasoning, they remain unreliable at judging the correctness of their own sol

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FinBoardBench: Benchmarking Dynamic Wealth Management and Strategic Financial Reasoning of LLMs via Board Game Simulations

arXiv:2605.27896v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, large language models (LLMs) have achieved superior performance in static financial reasoning and simple dynamic trading tasks. However, exist

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ForestHG-Trace: Traceable Long-Horizon Ecological Reasoning over Large-Scale Forest Scenes

arXiv:2605.27590v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Remote sensing question answering (RS-QA) often requires more than direct semantic prediction, especially in large-scale forest scenes where ecological

MACReD: A Multi-Agent Collaborative Reasoning Framework for Reaction Diagram Parsing

arXiv:2605.28077v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Parsing chemical reaction diagrams from scientific literature is challenging due to heterogeneous layouts, intertwined visual elements, and the difficul

Skill-Conditioned Gated Self-Distillation for LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2605.28791v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy self-distillation (SD) improves LLM reasoning by using teacher-side privileged information (PI) to turn sparse verifier outcomes into dense

TRACER: Turn-level Regret Matching with Inner Reinforcement Credit for Cooperative Multi-LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2605.28699v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models increasingly rely on either reinforcement learning or multi-agent prompting to improve reasoning, yet these two paradigms remain d

ARBITER: Reasoning Trajectory Basins and Majority Vote Failures in Test-Time Sampling

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arXiv:2605.26172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When language models use test-time sampling, they generate multiple reasoning trajectories and select an answer by majority vote. We show that these tra

Athena: Enhancing Multimodal Reasoning with Data-efficient Process Reward Models

arXiv:2506.09532v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present Athena-PRM, a multimodal process reward model (PRM) designed to evaluate the reward score for each step in solving complex reasonin

Composition Collapse: Stable Factual Knowledge Does Not Imply Compositional Reasoning

arXiv:2605.26789v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training is routinely evaluated through aggregate benchmark scores that treat multi-hop reasoning as a single capability -- as if a model that answ

Learning to Adapt SFT Data for Better Reasoning Generalization

arXiv:2605.26924v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress, with post-training playing a crucial role in enhancing their reasoning capabilities. Amo

SOLE-R1: Video-Language Reasoning as the Sole Reward for On-Robot Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2603.28730v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown impressive capabilities across diverse tasks, motivating efforts to leverage these models to supervis

Uncertainty-Aware Budget Allocation for Adaptive Test-Time Reasoning

arXiv:2605.26849v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Sampling multiple responses improves language model reasoning, but uniform compute allocation is inefficient: easy questions are over-sampled while hard

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Understanding Reasoning in LLMs through Strategic Information Allocation under Uncertainty

arXiv:2603.15500v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: LLMs often exhibit Aha moments such as self-correction after tokens like 'Wait,' yet the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Standard LLMs collaps

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AgentFugue: Agent Scaling for Long-Horizon Tasks through Collective Reasoning

arXiv:2605.24486v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent progress on long-horizon agentic tasks has been driven largely by scaling up individual agents through stronger models, better tools, and more ef

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DUEL: Adversarial Self-Play for Multimodal Reasoning

arXiv:2605.24794v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as an effective paradigm for improving the reasoning capability of vision-language models (VLMs). However, RL-

FloorplanQA: A Benchmark for Spatial Reasoning in LLMs using Structured Representations

arXiv:2507.07644v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce FloorplanQA, a diagnostic benchmark for evaluating spatial reasoning in large language models (LLMs). FloorplanQA is grounded in struct

HiMed: Incentivizing Hindi Reasoning in Medical LLMs

arXiv:2605.24635v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical large language models hold promise for reducing healthcare disparities, yet Hindi remains severely underrepresented. While medical LLMs excel in

Pragmatic Reasoning improves LLM Code Generation

arXiv:2502.15835v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pragmatic reasoning helps interlocutors infer intended meaning from ambiguous or underspecified messages by considering shared context and cou

Residual Drift Dominates Contradiction in Multi-Turn Constraint Reasoning

arXiv:2605.23940v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: How do multi-turn reasoning systems fail? The expected answer is logical contradiction, in which the system's maintained state becomes unsatisfiable. We

Convex Compositional Reasoning Models

arXiv:2605.23395v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Compositional energy-based models can generalize to larger combinatorial reasoning problems by reusing a learned factor energy across many local constra

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Decoding the Critique Mechanism in Large Reasoning Models

arXiv:2603.16331v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) exhibit backtracking and self-verification mechanisms that enable them to revise intermediate steps and reach correct

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Evaluating Counterfactual Strategic Reasoning in Large Language Models

arXiv:2603.19167v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We evaluate Large Language Models (LLMs) in repeated game-theoretic settings to assess whether strategic performance reflects genuine reasoning or r

VI-CuRL: Stabilizing Verifier-Independent RL Reasoning via Confidence-Guided Variance Reduction

arXiv:2602.12579v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a dominant paradigm for enhancing Large Language Models (LLMs) reasoning,

The Illusion of Reasoning: Exposing Evasive Data Contamination in LLMs via Zero-CoT Truncation

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arXiv:2605.21856v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive reasoning abilities across a wide range of tasks, but data contamination undermines the object

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VRPRM: Process Reward Modeling via Visual Reasoning

arXiv:2508.03556v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Process Reward Model (PRM) is widely used in the post-training of Large Language Model (LLM) because it can perform fine-grained evaluation of the r

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ChronoMedKG: A Temporally-Grounded Biomedical Knowledge Graph and Benchmark for Clinical Reasoning

arXiv:2605.22734v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Biomedical knowledge graphs (KGs) treat disease associations as static facts, but temporal information is crucial for clinical reasoning, e.g., a sympto

22 May 2026

High Quality Embeddings for Horn Logic Reasoning

arXiv:2605.20467v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Neural networks can be trained to rank the choices made by logical reasoners, resulting in more efficient searches for answers. A key step in this proce

22 May 2026

MAVEN: A Multi-stage Agentic Annotation Pipeline for Video Reasoning Tasks

arXiv:2605.21917v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training Vision Language Models (VLMs) for video event reasoning requires high-quality structured annotations capturing not only what happened, but when

22 May 2026

Bridging Structure and Language: Graph-Based Visual Reasoning for Autonomous Road Understanding

arXiv:2605.20942v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Structured road understanding of lane geometry, topology, and traffic element relationships is foundational to safe autonomous driving. While vision-lan

21 May 2026

LamPO: A Lambda Style Policy Optimization for Reasoning Language Models

arXiv:2605.21235v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has become an effective paradigm for improving reasoning language models on tasks such as mathemat

21 May 2026

A Measure-Theoretic Analysis of Reasoning: Structural Generalization and Approximation Limits

arXiv:2605.19944v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While empirical scaling laws for LLM reasoning are well-documented, the theoretical mechanisms governing out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization rema

Distributional Energy-Based Models for Uncertainty-Aware Structured LLM Reasoning

arXiv:2605.18871v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When Large Language Models produce structured outputs such as travel plans, code solutions, or multi-step proofs, individual reasoning steps may appea

From Prompts to Pavement Through Time: Temporal Grounding in Agentic Scene-to-Plan Reasoning

arXiv:2605.19824v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent attempts to support high-level scene interpretation and planning in Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) using ensembles of Large Language Models (LLMs) and

GeoX: Mastering Geospatial Reasoning Through Self-Play and Verifiable Rewards

arXiv:2605.20006v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Geospatial reasoning requires solving image-grounded problems over the complex spatial structure of a scene. However, developing this capability is hind

MotionMERGE: A Multi-granular Framework for Human Motion Editing, Reasoning, Generation, and Explanation

arXiv:2605.18956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent motion-language models unify tasks like comprehension and generation but operate at a coarse granularity, lacking fine-grained understanding and

Scaling Evaluation-time Compute with Reasoning Models as Evaluators

arXiv:2503.19877v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As language model (LM) outputs get more and more natural, it is becoming more difficult than ever to evaluate their quality. Simultaneously, increas

Cultivating Forensic Reasoning for Generalizable Multimodal Manipulation Detection

arXiv:2603.01993v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in generative AI have significantly enhanced the realism of multimodal media manipulation, thereby posing substantial challenges to

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Double-Calibration: Towards Reliable LLMs via Calibrating Knowledge and Reasoning Confidence

arXiv:2601.11956v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reliable reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs) is challenged by their propensity for hallucination. While augmenting LLMs with Knowledge G

EndoCogniAgent: Closed-Loop Agentic Reasoning with Self-Consistency Validation for Endoscopic Diagnosis

arXiv:2508.07292v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Endoscopic diagnosis is an iterative process in which clinicians progressively acquire, compare, and verify local visual evidence before reaching a

GeoSym127K: Scalable Symbolically-verifiable Synthesis for Multimodal Geometric Reasoning

arXiv:2605.16371v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) often struggle with geometric reasoning due to visual hallucinations and a lack of mathematically precise Chain-of-Thou

Leveraging Multimodal Self-Consistency Reasoning in Coding Motivational Interviewing for Alcohol Use Reduction

arXiv:2605.12987v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: BACKGROUND: Coding Motivational Interviewing (MI) sessions is essential for understanding client behaviors and predicting outcomes, but it requires

MemOCR: Layout-Aware Visual Memory for Efficient Long-Horizon Reasoning

arXiv:2601.21468v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Long-horizon agentic reasoning necessitates effectively compressing growing interaction histories into a limited context window. Most existing memor

Merlin's Whisper: Enabling Efficient Reasoning in Large Language Models via Black-box Persuasive Prompting

arXiv:2510.10528v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large reasoning models (LRMs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in tackling complex tasks through step-by-step thinking. However, this length

SAPO: Step-Aligned Policy Optimization for Reasoning-Based Generative Recommendation

arXiv:2605.17648v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative recommendation treats next-item prediction as autoregressive item-identifier generation. Specifically, items are encoded as semantic identifi

SkyNative: A Native Multimodal Framework for Remote Sensing Visual Evidence Reasoning

arXiv:2605.17949v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Remote sensing vision-language models commonly rely on pretrained visual encoders to convert images into semantic features before language-model reasoni