most citedComprehension Without Competence: Architectural Limits of LLMs in Symbolic Computation and Reasoning

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cs.AI2026

Choosing Before Acting: Comparative Value Estimation for Long-Horizon Tool-Use Agents

Yu Li, Zheng Zhang, Xin Liu +3

Large language models (LLMs) rely on long-horizon tool invocation sequences for complex tasks, where each invocation can alter the task state and condition subsequent decisions. In…

cs.AI2026

From Outcome to Representation: Tracing Reasoning Mechanisms through Integrated Policy Gradient

Changming Li, Kaixing Zhang, Haoyun Xu +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable reasoning capabilities, yet the internal mechanisms driving these multi-step processes remain opaque. Existing mechanistic inter…

cs.LG2026

Grad2Reward: From Sparse Judgment to Dense Rewards for Improving Open-Ended LLM Reasoning

Zheng Zhang, Ao Lu, Yuanhao Zeng +5

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has catalyzed significant breakthroughs in complex LLM reasoning within verifiable domains, such as mathematics and programmin…

cs.AI2025

SkipKV: Selective Skipping of KV Generation and Storage for Efficient Inference with Large Reasoning Models

Jiayi Tian, Seyedarmin Azizi, Yequan Zhao +7

Large reasoning models (LRMs) often incur significant key-value (KV) cache overhead, due to their linear growth with the verbose chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning. This incurs both…

cs.LG2025

Better LLM Reasoning via Dual-Play

Zhengxin Zhang, Chengyu Huang, Aochong Oliver Li +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress through Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR), yet still rely heavily on external supervision (e.g.,…

cs.LG2025

Linking Process to Outcome: Conditional Reward Modeling for LLM Reasoning

Zheng Zhang, Ziwei Shan, Kaitao Song +2

Process Reward Models (PRMs) have emerged as a promising approach to enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) by guiding their step-by-step reasoning towa…

cs.AI2025★ 1 cited

Comprehension Without Competence: Architectural Limits of LLMs in Symbolic Computation and Reasoning

Zheng Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) display striking surface fluency yet systematically fail at tasks requiring symbolic reasoning, arithmetic accuracy, and logical consistency. This pape…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Learning to Select In-Context Demonstration Preferred by Large Language Model

Zheng Zhang, Shaocheng Lan, Lei Song +3

In-context learning (ICL) enables large language models (LLMs) to adapt to new tasks during inference using only a few demonstrations. However, ICL performance is highly dependent…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

Perception, Reason, Think, and Plan: A Survey on Large Multimodal Reasoning Models

Yunxin Li, Zhenyu Liu, Zitao Li +19

Reasoning lies at the heart of intelligence, shaping the ability to make decisions, draw conclusions, and generalize across domains. In artificial intelligence, as systems increasi…