2 papers
cs.CL2026
Belief-Trajectory Energy: Measuring the Path to a Prediction
Jiahao Ying, Wei Tang, Boxian Ai +7
Large language models (LLMs) progressively revise their predictions across Transformer layers, yet we typically observe only the final output, discarding the trajectory through whi…
cs.CL2026
From Base Rollouts to RL Reasoning: A Budgeted Search Perspective
Wenhe Sun, Cunxiang Wang, Zijun Yao +1
Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) improves language-model reasoning, but how these gains relate to inference-time decoding and search remains unclear. Does RL c…