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11 papers

cs.CL2026

Mid-Think: Training-Free Intermediate-Budget Reasoning via Token-Level Triggers

Wang Yang, Debargha Ganguly, Xinpeng Li +5

Hybrid reasoning language models are commonly controlled through high-level Think/No-think instructions to regulate reasoning behavior, yet we found that such mode switching is lar…

cs.AI2026

Longer Context, Deeper Thinking: Uncovering the Role of Long-Context Ability in Reasoning

Wang Yang, Zirui Liu, Hongye Jin +3

Recent language models exhibit strong reasoning capabilities, yet the influence of long-context capacity on reasoning remains underexplored. In this work, we hypothesize that curre…

cs.CL2026

Speculative Thinking: Enhancing Small-Model Reasoning with Large Model Guidance at Inference Time

Wang Yang, Xiang Yue, Vipin Chaudhary +1

Recent advances leverage post-training to enhance model reasoning performance, which typically requires costly training pipelines and still suffers from inefficient, overly lengthy…

cs.CL2026

Mechanistic Diagnostics of Spatial Lexical Bias in Multimodal Large Language Model Spatial Reasoning

Chuang Ma, Qianying Liu, Tomoyuki Obuchi +6

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) remain unreliable on spatial multiple-choice questions, and their failures are often attributed to poorly attended visual information. In t…

cs.CL2026

Path-Lock Expert: Separating Reasoning Mode in Hybrid Thinking via Architecture-Level Separation

Shouren Wang, Wang Yang, Chuang Ma +7

Hybrid-thinking language models expose explicit /think and /no_think modes, but current designs do not separate them cleanly. Even in /no_think mode, models often emit long and sel…

cs.AI2026

AgentCE-Bench: Agent Configurable Evaluation with Scalable Horizons and Controllable Difficulty under Lightweight Environments

Wang Yang, Chaoda Song, Xinpeng Li +7

Existing Agent benchmarks suffer from two critical limitations: high environment interaction overhead (up to 41\% of total evaluation time) and imbalanced task horizon and difficul…