The field of large language models (LLMs) is witnessing significant developments in their reasoning capabilities. Recent studies have focused on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of LLMs' reasoning processes, including the use of chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting, self-optimizing thought vectors, and reinforcement learning. These advancements aim to enhance the accuracy and reliability of LLMs' outputs, particularly in tasks that require complex reasoning and problem-solving. Noteworthy papers in this area include 'Can Confidence Estimates Decide When Chain-of-thought is Necessary for LLMs?', which explores the use of confidence estimates to determine when CoT is necessary, and 'Controllable Mathematical Reasoning via Self-Optimizing Thought Vectors', which introduces a novel approach for controllable mathematical reasoning. Overall, these developments have the potential to significantly improve the performance and trustworthiness of LLMs in various applications.
Advancements in Large Language Models' Reasoning Capabilities
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Can Confidence Estimates Decide When Chain-of-thought is Necessary for Llms?
Reasoning's Razor: Reasoning Improves Accuracy but Can Hurt Recall at Critical Operating Points in Safety and Hallucination Detection
How to Auto-optimize Prompts for Domain Tasks? Adaptive Prompting and Reasoning through Evolutionary Domain Knowledge Adaptation
Boosting Accuracy and Efficiency of Budget Forcing in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning for Mathematical Reasoning
Controllable Mathematical Reasoning via Self-Optimizing Thought Vectors
You Don't Need Prompt Engineering Anymore: The Prompting Inversion
Mapping Faithful Reasoning in Language Models
Modeling Hierarchical Thinking in Large Reasoning Models
HRM-Agent: Training a recurrent reasoning model in dynamic environments using reinforcement learning
Improving Human Verification of LLM Reasoning through Interactive Explanation Interfaces
The Reasoning Trap: How Enhancing LLM Reasoning Amplifies Tool Hallucination
Learning to Reason Efficiently with Discounted Reinforcement Learning
Confidence is Not Competence
ProofSketch: Efficient Verified Reasoning for Large Language Models
SemCoT: Accelerating Chain-of-Thought Reasoning through Semantically-Aligned Implicit Tokens
Can Aha Moments Be Fake? Identifying True and Decorative Thinking Steps in Chain-of-Thought
Scaling Latent Reasoning via Looped Language Models
The Kinetics of Reasoning: How Chain-of-Thought Shapes Learning in Transformers?
SCRIBE: Structured Chain Reasoning for Interactive Behaviour Explanations using Tool Calling
Stitch: Step-by-step LLM Guided Tutoring for Scratch