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cs.CL2026
Know When to Stop: Segment-Level Credit Assignment for Reducing Overthinking
Chia-Hsuan Lee, Sihui Dai, Mingyang Zhou +5
Reasoning language models frequently overthink: generating extended chains of behaviors such as hedging, approach abandonment, and self contradiction that consume tokens without im…
cs.CL2026
Decomposing the Delta: What Do Models Actually Learn from Preference Pairs?
Chia-Hsuan Lee, Mingyang Zhou, Renkun Ni +6
Preference optimization methods such as DPO and KTO are widely used for aligning language models, yet little is understood about what properties of preference data drive downstream…
cs.CL2025
Can Memory-Augmented Language Models Generalize on Reasoning-in-a-Haystack Tasks?
Payel Das, Ching-Yun Ko, Sihui Dai +3
Large language models often expose their brittleness in reasoning tasks, especially while executing long chains of reasoning over context. We propose MemReasoner, a new and simple…