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6 papers

cs.LG2026

SuperThoughts: Reasoning Tokens in Superposition

Zheyang Xiong, Shivam Garg, Max Yu +4

Long Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning improves LLM problem-solving but is computationally expensive due to sequential token generation. While recent works explore reasoning in cont…

cs.AI2026

MEMENTO: Teaching LLMs to Manage Their Own Context

Vasilis Kontonis, Yuchen Zeng, Shivam Garg +7

Reasoning models think in long, unstructured streams with no mechanism for compressing or organizing their own intermediate state. We introduce MEMENTO: a method that teaches model…

cs.LG2026

Endless Terminals: Scaling RL Environments for Terminal Agents

Kanishk Gandhi, Shivam Garg, Noah D. Goodman +1

Environments are the bottleneck for self-improving agents. Current terminal benchmarks were built for evaluation, not training; reinforcement learning requires a scalable pipeline,…

cs.LG2025

Wait, Wait, Wait... Why Do Reasoning Models Loop?

Charilaos Pipis, Shivam Garg, Vasilis Kontonis +3

Reasoning models (e.g., DeepSeek-R1) generate long chains of thought to solve harder problems, but they often loop, repeating the same text at low temperatures or with greedy decod…

cs.CL2025

Sample More to Think Less: Group Filtered Policy Optimization for Concise Reasoning

Vaishnavi Shrivastava, Ahmed Awadallah, Vidhisha Balachandran +3

Large language models trained with reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards tend to trade accuracy for length--inflating response lengths to achieve gains in accuracy. While…

cs.LG2025

Inference-Time Scaling for Complex Tasks: Where We Stand and What Lies Ahead

Vidhisha Balachandran, Jingya Chen, Lingjiao Chen +8

Inference-time scaling can enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) on complex problems that benefit from step-by-step problem solving. Although lengtheni…