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5 papers

cs.CL2026

BLADE: Boundary-Expanded and Layer-Adaptive Dynamic Exit for Efficient LLM Reasoning

Keshu Fu, Keqin Peng, Jun Bai +6

Large language models often improve task performance by generating long reasoning traces, but the resulting computation is frequently wasted on redundant verification and revision.…

cs.CL2026

Diagnosing and Mitigating Thinking Collapse in On-Policy Self-Distillation

Keqin Peng, Chen Li, Yuanxin Ouyang +2

On-Policy Self-Distillation (OPSD) has emerged as a crucial paradigm for enhancing and aligning Large Language Models (LLMs). However, in complex reasoning tasks, OPSD paradoxicall…

cs.CL2026

Think Dense, Not Long: Dynamic Decoupled Conditional Advantage for Efficient Reasoning

Keqin Peng, Yuanxin Ouyang, Xuebo Liu +4

Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) can elicit strong multi-step reasoning, yet it often encourages overly verbose traces. Moreover, naive length penalties in gro…

cs.CL2025

Enhancing Input-Label Mapping in In-Context Learning with Contrastive Decoding

Keqin Peng, Liang Ding, Yuanxin Ouyang +3

Large language models (LLMs) excel at a range of tasks through in-context learning (ICL), where only a few task examples guide their predictions. However, prior research highlights…

cs.CL2025

Revisiting Overthinking in Long Chain-of-Thought from the Perspective of Self-Doubt

Keqin Peng, Liang Ding, Yuanxin Ouyang +2

Reasoning Large Language Models (RLLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on complex tasks, largely due to the adoption of Long Chain-of-Thought (Long CoT) reasoning. Howeve…