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20242026
most citedPosition: Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces!

4 citations · 4 across the 2 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.AI20264 cited

Position: Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces!

Subbarao Kambhampati, Karthik Valmeekam, Siddhant Bhambri +6

Intermediate token generation (ITG), where a model produces output before the solution, has become a standard method to improve the performance of language models on reasoning task…

cs.LG2026

Beyond Semantics: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Reasonless Intermediate Tokens

Karthik Valmeekam, Vardhan Palod, Kaya Stechly +2

Recent impressive results from large reasoning models have been interpreted as a triumph of Chain of Thought (CoT), and especially of the process of training on CoTs sampled from b…

cs.RO2025

PAC Bench: Do Foundation Models Understand Prerequisites for Executing Manipulation Policies?

Atharva Gundawar, Som Sagar, Ransalu Senanayake

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly pivotal for generalist robot manipulation, enabling tasks such as physical reasoning, policy generation, and failure detection. Howev…

cs.AI2025

REAL: Benchmarking Autonomous Agents on Deterministic Simulations of Real Websites

Divyansh Garg, Shaun VanWeelden, Diego Caples +15

We introduce REAL, a benchmark and framework for multi-turn agent evaluations on deterministic simulations of real-world websites. REAL comprises high-fidelity, deterministic repli…

cs.CL2024

Robust Planning with Compound LLM Architectures: An LLM-Modulo Approach

Atharva Gundawar, Karthik Valmeekam, Mudit Verma +1

Previous work has attempted to boost Large Language Model (LLM) performance on planning and scheduling tasks through a variety of prompt engineering techniques. While these methods…

cs.AI2024

Planning in Strawberry Fields: Evaluating and Improving the Planning and Scheduling Capabilities of LRM o1

Karthik Valmeekam, Kaya Stechly, Atharva Gundawar +1

The ability to plan a course of action that achieves a desired state of affairs has long been considered a core competence of intelligent agents and has been an integral part of AI…