2 papers
cs.CL2026
Barriers to Discrete Reasoning with Transformers: A Survey Across Depth, Exactness, and Bandwidth
Michelle Yuan, Weiyi Sun, Amir H. Rezaeian +5
Transformers have become the foundational architecture for a broad spectrum of sequence modeling applications, underpinning state-of-the-art systems in natural language processing,…
cs.CL2026
Budget-Aware Anytime Reasoning with LLM-Synthesized Preference Data
Xuanming Zhang, Shwan Ashrafi, Aziza Mirsaidova +5
We study the reasoning behavior of large language models (LLMs) under limited computation budgets. In such settings, producing useful partial solutions quickly is often more practi…