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Existing code reasoning methods primarily supervise final code outputs, ignoring intermediate states, often leading to reward hacking where correct answers are obtained through inconsistent reasoning. We propose StepCodeReasoner, a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Hao Wang , Rui Li , Lei Sha , Jie M. Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) tackle complex tasks by generating long chains of thought or "reasoning traces" that act as latent variables in the generation of an output given a query. A model's ability to generate such traces can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Alexander Gurung , Nikolay Malkin , Mirella Lapata

In recent years, large pretrained models have been used in dialogue systems to improve successful task completion rates. However, lack of reasoning capabilities of dialogue platforms make it difficult to provide relevant and fluent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Sajjad Beygi , Maryam Fazel-Zarandi , Alessandra Cervone , Prakash Krishnan , Siddhartha Reddy Jonnalagadda

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) achieve strong performance by generating long chains of thought (CoT), but often overthink, continuing to reason after a solution has already stabilized and thereby wasting tokens and increasing latency.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Dehai Min , Giovanni Vaccarino , Huiyi Chen , Yongliang Wu , Gal Yona , Lu Cheng

World models compress rich sensory streams into compact latent codes that anticipate future observations. We let separate agents acquire such models from distinct viewpoints of the same environment without any parameter sharing or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Haoran Zhang , Youjin Wang , Yi Duan , Rong Fu , Dianyu Zhao , Sicheng Fan , Shuaishuai Cao , Wentao Guo , Xiao Zhou

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) has become a cornerstone of reasoning in large language models, yet its effectiveness is constrained by the limited expressiveness of discrete token sampling. Recent latent reasoning approaches attempt to alleviate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Renyu Fu , Guibo Luo

Reasoning in Large Language Models incurs significant inference-time compute, yet the token-level information structure of reasoning traces remains underexplored. We observe that reasoning tokens split into two functional types: low-entropy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Zhenyu Zhao , Sander Land , Daniel M. Bikel , Waseem Alshikh

Large Language Models (LLMs) deployed as autonomous agents commonly use Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), feeding retrieved documents into the context window, which creates two problems: the risk of hallucination grows with context…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Ivan Dobrovolskyi

Depth-recurrence facilitates latent reasoning by sharing parameters across depths. However, prior work lacks combined FLOP-, parameter-, and memory-matched baselines, underutilizes depth-recurrence due to partially fixed layer stacks, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Jonas Knupp , Jan Hendrik Metzen , Jeremias Bohn , Georg Groh , Kristian Kersting

Building on the Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) paradigm, a recent self-supervised learning framework that predicts latent representations of masked regions in high-level feature spaces, we propose Audio-JEPA (Audio…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Ludovic Tuncay , Etienne Labbé , Emmanouil Benetos , Thomas Pellegrini

Aiming at efficient and dense chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, latent reasoning methods fine-tune Large Language Models (LLMs) to substitute discrete language tokens with continuous latent tokens. These methods consume fewer tokens…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Zhi Zheng , Wee Sun Lee

This technical report details a novel approach to combining reasoning and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) within a single, lean language model architecture. While existing RAG systems typically rely on large-scale models and external…

Protein language models are trained primarily with masked language modeling (MLM), which predicts amino-acid identities at masked positions. We ask whether latent-space prediction can complement these token-level objectives under matched…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Dan Ofer , Dafna Shahaf , Michal Linial

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at reasoning and planning when trained on chainof-thought (CoT) data, where the step-by-step thought process is explicitly outlined by text tokens. However, this results in lengthy inputs where many words…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 DiJia Su , Hanlin Zhu , Yingchen Xu , Jiantao Jiao , Yuandong Tian , Qinqing Zheng

Most efforts to improve the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) involve either scaling the number of parameters and the size of training data, or scaling inference computation by letting models generate complex chains of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Yeskendir Koishekenov , Aldo Lipani , Nicola Cancedda

Prior work has shown that a significant driver of performance in reasoning models is their ability to reason and self-correct. A distinctive marker in these reasoning traces is the token wait, which often signals reasoning behavior such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Dmitrii Troitskii , Koyena Pal , Chris Wendler , Callum Stuart McDougall , Neel Nanda

Scaling inference-time compute for Large Language Models (LLMs) has unlocked unprecedented reasoning capabilities. However, existing inference-time scaling methods typically rely on inefficient and suboptimal discrete search algorithms or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Peihao Wang , Ruisi Cai , Zhen Wang , Hongyuan Mei , Qiang Liu , Pan Li , Zhangyang Wang

Test-time scaling via explicit reasoning trajectories significantly boosts large language model (LLM) performance but often triggers overthinking. To explore this, we analyze reasoning through two lenses: Reasoning Length Dynamics, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Zihao Wei , Liang Pang , Jiahao Liu , Wenjie Shi , Jingcheng Deng , Shicheng Xu , Zenghao Duan , Fei Sun , Huawei Shen , Xueqi Cheng

We introduce a simple, yet novel entropy-based framework to drive token efficiency in large language models during reasoning tasks. Our approach uses Shannon entropy from token-level logprobs as a confidence signal to enable early stopping,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Aman Sharma , Paras Chopra

Standard Transformers have a fixed computational depth, fundamentally limiting their ability to generalize to tasks requiring variable-depth reasoning, such as multi-hop graph traversal or nested logic. We propose a depth-recurrent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hung-Hsuan Chen