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20242026
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9 papers

cs.AI2026

Soft Guidance Starts to Outperform CoT Prompting as LLMs Improve

Denys Pushkin, Albert Q. Jiang, Aryo Lotfi +3

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting remains the standard baseline for evaluating models' reasoning abilities. Originally, this technique was introduced to elicit step-by-step reasonin…

cs.DS2026

Recovering Assignments with One-Sided Noise

Cassandra Marcussen, Elchanan Mossel, Colin Sandon

We study the query complexity of recovering a planted assignment from a random constraint-satisfaction instance with one-sided noise. We consider the following 1-CNF recovery probl…

math.ST2026

Finding Planted Cycles in a Random Graph

Julia Gaudio, Colin Sandon, Jiaming Xu +1

In this paper, we study the problem of finding a collection of planted cycles in an \ER random graph , in analogy to the famous Planted Clique Problem.…

math.PR2026

Phase Transitions in Planted k-Factor Recovery

Julia Gaudio, Colin Sandon, Jiaming Xu +1

This paper studies the problem of inferring a -factor, specifically a spanning -regular graph, planted within an Erdos-Renyi random graph . We show that as the ave…

cs.IT2026

Polynomial Freiman-Ruzsa, Reed-Muller codes and Shannon capacity

Emmanuel Abbe, Colin Sandon, Vladyslav Shashkov +1

In 1948, Shannon used a probabilistic argument to show the existence of codes achieving a maximal rate defined by the channel capacity. In 1954, Muller and Reed introduced a simple…

cs.IT2026

Tensor Reed-Muller Codes: Achieving Capacity with Quasilinear Decoding Time

Emmanuel Abbe, Colin Sandon, Oscar Sprumont

Define the codewords of the Tensor Reed-Muller code to be the evaluation vectors of all multivariate polynomials in the variables $\le…