3 papers
cs.CL2026
Improving Reasoning Capabilities in Small Models through Mixture-of-Layers Distillation with Stepwise Attention on Key Information
Yao Chen, Jiawei Sheng, Wenyuan Zhang +1
The significant computational demands of large language models have increased interest in distilling reasoning abilities into smaller models via Chain-of-Thought (CoT) distillation…
cs.CL2026
Sparse Growing Transformer: Training-Time Sparse Depth Allocation via Progressive Attention Looping
Yao Chen, Yilong Chen, Yinqi Yang +9
Existing approaches to increasing the effective depth of Transformers predominantly rely on parameter reuse, extending computation through recursive execution. Under this paradigm,…
cs.CL2026
ATTNPO: Attention-Guided Process Supervision for Efficient Reasoning
Shuaiyi Nie, Siyu Ding, Wenyuan Zhang +7
Large reasoning models trained with reinforcement learning and verifiable rewards (RLVR) achieve strong performance on complex reasoning tasks, yet often overthink, generating redu…