2 papers
cs.CL2026
From Latent Signals to Reflection Behavior: Tracing Meta-Cognitive Activation Trajectory in R1-Style LLMs
Yanrui Du, Yibo Gao, Sendong Zhao +6
R1-style LLMs have attracted growing attention for their capacity for self-reflection, yet the internal mechanisms underlying such behavior remain unclear. To bridge this gap, we a…
cs.CL2026
S3-CoT: Self-Sampled Succinct Reasoning Enables Efficient Chain-of-Thought LLMs
Yanrui Du, Sendong Zhao, Yibo Gao +9
Large language models (LLMs) equipped with chain-of-thought (CoT) achieve strong performance and offer a window into LLM behavior. However, recent evidence suggests that improvemen…