3 papers
cs.CL2026
Constraint-First Reasoning: A Training-Free Protocol for Exploiting Answer-Space Constraints in Mathematical Problem Solving
Hongbo Ma, Bangji Yang, Yunqian Selina Cheng +3
Large language models can derive a plausible mathematical object yet still violate explicit requirements--for example, by omitting a modular reduction, returning a non-integer, or…
cs.IR2026
Trust or Abstain? A Self-Aware RAG Approach
Xi Zhu, Ziqi Wang, Kai Mei +5
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) improves large language models (LLMs) by incorporating external evidence, but it also introduces knowledge conflicts when retrieved contextual…
cs.LG2026
Batched Contextual Reinforcement: A Task-Scaling Law for Efficient Reasoning
Bangji Yang, Hongbo Ma, Jiajun Fan +1
Large Language Models employing Chain-of-Thought reasoning achieve strong performance but suffer from excessive token consumption that inflates inference costs. Existing efficiency…