2 papers
cs.CL2026
Know When to Stop: Segment-Level Credit Assignment for Reducing Overthinking
Chia-Hsuan Lee, Sihui Dai, Mingyang Zhou +5
Reasoning language models frequently overthink: generating extended chains of behaviors such as hedging, approach abandonment, and self contradiction that consume tokens without im…
math.OC2022
Adapting Zeroth Order Algorithms for Comparison-Based Optimization
Isha Slavin, Daniel McKenzie
Comparison-Based Optimization (CBO) is an optimization paradigm that assumes only very limited access to the objective function f(x). Despite the growing relevance of CBO to real-w…