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Don't Tell the Answer, Truly Guide the Reasoning During RL Rollouts

arXiv:2510.09388v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement Learning (RL) has become a key driver for enhancing the long chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (L

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In LLM Reasoning, there is Irrationality on top of Value Misalignment

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arXiv:2606.20624v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Significant progress has been made in aligning LLMs with target value functions. We argue that, even when an LLM has been well aligned in (post-)train

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Are LLMs Bad at Moral Reasoning?

arXiv:2606.11635v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: For highly capable AI systems to operate safely in dynamic, open-ended environments, they must be able to identify, understand, and respond to moral r

Lung-R1: A Knowledge Graph-Guided LLM for Pulmonary Diagnostic Reasoning

arXiv:2606.11675v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diagnosing pulmonary diseases requires integrating heterogeneous evidence amid phenotypic variability and cross-disease overlap. Although large language

MentisOculi: Revealing the Limits of Reasoning with Mental Imagery

arXiv:2602.02465v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Frontier models are transitioning from multimodal large language models (MLLMs) that merely ingest visual information to unified multimodal models (

On the Optimal Reasoning Length for RL-Trained Language Models

arXiv:2602.09591v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning substantially improves reasoning in large language models, but it also tends to lengthen chain-of-thought outputs and i

Ouroboros-Spatial: Closing the Data-Model Loop for Spatial Reasoning

arXiv:2606.11719v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatial reasoning remains a persistent challenge for multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Existing approaches largely rely on large-scale, static

Plan-and-Verify Video Reward Reasoning with Spatio-Temporal Scene Graph Grounding

arXiv:2606.11838v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reward models for text-to-video (T2V) generation guide post-training but often fail at fine-grained semantic alignment. We trace this to two structural

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Which Speech Representation Better Matches Text-Native Reasoning? A Study of Speech-Text Alignment on Frame Rate and Representation

arXiv:2606.12199v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spoken dialogue models typically start from text LLM backbones, yet reasoning often degrades when conditioning on speech instead of text. We attribute

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WorldReasoner: Evaluating Whether Language Model Agents Forecast Events with Valid Reasoning

arXiv:2606.11816v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Forecasting real-world events requires language-model agents to reason under uncertainty from incomplete, time-bounded information. Yet evaluating whe

Dropout-GRPO: Variational Stochasticity for Continuous Latent Reasoning

arXiv:2606.10184v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) relies on the diversity of K rollouts within each group; otherwise, the group-mean advantage A^{(k)} = r^{(k

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KCSAT-ML: Probing Reasoning Models with Nationwide-Cohort Human Difficulty

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arXiv:2606.10403v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Math reasoning benchmarks have proliferated, yet most lack a per-item difficulty signal grounded in actual human performance. We introduce KCSAT-ML, a d

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LaRI: Layered Ray Intersections for Single-view 3D Geometric Reasoning

arXiv:2504.18424v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present Layered Ray Intersections (LaRI), a fully supervised method for occluded geometry reasoning from a single image. Unlike conventional dept

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MemCast: Memory-Driven Time Series Forecasting with Experience-Conditioned Reasoning

arXiv:2602.03164v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Time series forecasting (TSF) plays a critical role in decision-making for many real-world applications. Recently, large language model (LLM)-

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Predicting Future Behaviors in Reasoning Models Enables Better Steering

arXiv:2606.11172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deployed large reasoning models (LRMs) often behave unexpectedly. Test-time steering controls LRM outputs by intervening on their hidden representations

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TabClaw: An Interactive and Self-Evolving Agent for Spreadsheet Manipulation and Table Reasoning

arXiv:2606.10316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spreadsheets and tables are widely used representations for structured data analysis, but effective analysis still requires substantial manual effort an

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AI Scientists Are Only as Good as Their Evidence: A Stratified Ablation of Proprietary Data and Reasoning Skills in Drug-Asset Valuation

arXiv:2606.09556v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI Scientist agents are often evaluated as if capability were mainly a function of model quality, prompting, or reasoning scaffolds. We test a different

Biological Reasoning-Informed Regression for Interpretable Regulatory DNA Activity Prediction

arXiv:2606.08147v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: DNA cis-regulatory elements (CREs) such as enhancers control gene expression levels. Accurately predicting regulatory activity from DNA sequences is v

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Capacity, Not Format: Rethinking Structured Reasoning Failures

arXiv:2606.09410v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prior work treats structured output as a reasoning tax, but this framing is incomplete: the cost of formatting depends strongly on a model's spare capac

ConSteer-RL: Steering Reasoning Capabilities in Large Language Models via Confidence-Aware Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2606.08088v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has recently become a key paradigm for improving the reasoning abilities of Large Language Models

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Improving Multimodal Reasoning via Worst Dimension Optimization

arXiv:2606.07801v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal reasoning requires a path that retains integrity over a wide range of constraints, from visual grounding to logic consistency. However, the c

Momentum for Reasoning: Dense Intrinsic Signals in Policy Optimization

arXiv:2606.08815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for eliciting long-chain reasoning in large language models. Ho

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Reinforcing Temporal Answer Grounding in Instructional Video via Candidate-Aware Causal Reasoning

arXiv:2606.08436v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The task of temporal answer grounding in instructional video (TAGV), which aims to locate precise video segments that respond to natural language querie

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// The Consistency Illusion // Multi-agent debate can make agents agree on the final answer while their underlying reasoning stays misaligne…

// The Consistency Illusion // Multi-agent debate can make agents agree on the final answer while their underlying reasoning stays misaligned. This work finds that consensus on the output hides disagr

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Think Before You Act: Intention-Guided Reasoning for LLM-Based Location Prediction

arXiv:2606.08122v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting a user's next Point-of-Interest (POI) based on their historical check-in records is a fundamental task in location-based services. While rece

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Thinking-Based Non-Thinking: Solving the Reward Hacking Problem in Training Hybrid Reasoning Models via Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2601.04805v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large reasoning models (LRMs) have attracted much attention due to their exceptional performance. However, their performance mainly stems from think

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Train at Moving Edge: Online-Verified Prompt Selection for Efficient RL Training of Large Reasoning Model

arXiv:2603.25184v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) has become essential for post-training large language models (LLMs) in reasoning tasks. While scaling rollouts can

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VisualFLIP: Do Predictions Depend on Task-Critical Visual Evidence in Multimodal Reasoning?

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arXiv:2606.07872v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a multimodal large language model answers a visual reasoning question correctly, is the prediction actually supported by the task-critical visual e

what constitutes reasoning in AI is a critical debate. i hope that @dwarkesh_sp will respond.

what constitutes reasoning in AI is a critical debate. i hope that @dwarkesh_sp will respond. what does this even mean, @dwarkesh_sp, “the real deal”? is it even a falsifiable conjecture? what’s the e

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Compress-Distill: Reasoning Trace Compression for Efficient Knowledge Distillation

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arXiv:2606.05988v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning models produce long chain-of-thought traces that are costly to distill and encourage verbose student outputs. We study post-hoc compression

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Explainable Action Form Assessment by Exploiting Multimodal Chain-of-Thoughts Reasoning

arXiv:2512.15153v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Evaluating whether human action is standard or not and providing reasonable feedback to improve action standardization is very crucial but challengi

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Imagine Before You Predict: Interleaved Latent Visual Reasoning for Video Event Prediction

arXiv:2606.05769v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video event prediction (VEP) requires models to infer unobserved future states from partial video evidence. Existing video MLLMs usually verbalize inter

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Multi-Granularity Reasoning for Natural Language Inference

arXiv:2606.05181v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Natural Language Inference (NLI) is a fundamental task in natural language understanding that requires determining the logical relationship between a pr

Narrative Knowledge Weaver: Narrative-Centric Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning for Long-Form Text Understanding

arXiv:2606.05724v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-form narrative QA requires reasoning over evolving story worlds rather than isolated passages: answers may depend on earlier goals, changing charac

ReTreVal: Reasoning Tree with Validation and Cross-Problem Memory for Large Language Models

arXiv:2601.02880v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Every existing inference-time reasoning framework discards all failure context at problem boundaries, leaving a model solving problem 500 no w

A Normative Intermediate Representation for ASP-Based Compliance Reasoning

arXiv:2606.04619v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We propose MONIR, a Modalized-Output Normative Intermediate Representation for ASP-based compliance reasoning. Its core fragment has a staged operationa

Prompt-Level Distillation: A Non-Parametric Alternative to Model Fine-Tuning for Efficient Reasoning

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arXiv:2602.21103v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Advanced reasoning typically requires Chain-of-Thought prompting, which is accurate but incurs prohibitive latency and substantial test-time inferen

SCI-PRM: A Tool Aware Process Reward Model for Scientific Reasoning Verification

arXiv:2606.04579v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Process Reward Models (PRMs) have achieved remarkable success in mathematical reasoning, their application in complex scientific domains-such as b

Smart Picks in the Dark: Towards Efficient RLVR for Reasoning via Tracing Metacognitive Pivots

arXiv:2606.04503v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has greatly advanced large reasoning models (LRMs), but it requires timely training on a huge fu

Eliciting Complex Spatial Reasoning in MLLMs through Wide-Baseline Matching

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arXiv:2606.03577v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Wide-baseline matching (WBM) requires integrating geometric understanding, viewpoint changes, fine-grained perception, and occlusion reasoning, making i

From Answers to States: Verifiable Process-Level Evaluation of Chemical Reasoning in Large Language Models

arXiv:2606.03660v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used as chemistry assistants, yet most chemistry benchmarks still score only final answers. This masks a critical

HybridThinker: Efficient Chain-of-Thought Reasoning via Compressed Memory and Transient Thought Steps

arXiv:2606.03768v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Extended chain-of-thought (CoT) traces improve LLM reasoning but incur substantial computational and memory costs. While existing CoT compression method

Physical Plausibility Reasoning via HCM-GRPO: Empowering Compact Model for Superior Performance

arXiv:2511.10055v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The performance of image generation has been significantly improved in recent years. However, the study of image screening is rare, and its performa

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probably the best reward function for reasoning efficiency i've seen

This post likely discusses an innovative reward function design that optimizes for reasoning efficiency in AI systems, possibly in the context of language models or reinforcement learning. The entry a

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World Models Meet Language Models: On the Complementarity of Concrete and Abstract Reasoning

arXiv:2606.03603v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models and multimodal large language models (MLLMs) provide complementary capabilities for predicting future outcomes from static visual observa

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Attention-guided Fine-tuning of Multimodal Large Language Models Improves Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

arXiv:2606.01558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The effectiveness of Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) remains uncertain: across several visual reasoning ben

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Beyond Visual Memory: Mechanistic Diagnostics of Latent Visual Reasoning

arXiv:2606.01287v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent latent visual reasoning methods achieve substantial gains by inserting continuous latent tokens into multimodal language models. These gains ar

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Boosting RL-Based Visual Reasoning with Selective Adversarial Entropy Intervention

arXiv:2512.10414v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recently, reinforcement learning (RL) has become a common choice in enhancing the reasoning capabilities of vision-language models (VLMs). Consideri