SmartThinker: Progressive Chain-of-Thought Length Calibration for Efficient Large Language Model Reasoning

Chenzhi Hu, Qinzhe Hu, Yuhang Xu +6

Large reasoning models (LRMs) like OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek-R1 achieve high accuracy on complex tasks by adopting long chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning paths. However, the inherent v…