2 papers
cs.CL2026
Hán DÄn Xué Bù (Mimicry) or QÄ«ng ChÅ« Yú Lán (Mastery)? A Cognitive Perspective on Reasoning Distillation in Large Language Models
Yueqing Hu, Xinyang Peng, Shuting Peng +2
Recent Large Reasoning Models trained via reinforcement learning exhibit a "natural" alignment with human cognitive costs. However, we show that the prevailing paradigm of reasonin…
cs.CY2026
Beyond Instrumental and Substitutive Paradigms: Introducing Machine Culture as an Emergent Phenomenon in Large Language Models
Yueqing Hu, Xinyang Peng, Yukun Zhao +3
Recent scholarship typically characterizes Large Language Models (LLMs) through either an \textit{Instrumental Paradigm} (viewing models as reflections of their developers' culture…