Advancements in Large Language Model Reasoning

The field of Large Language Model (LLM) reasoning is rapidly evolving, with a focus on developing more robust and reliable evaluation benchmarks. Recent research has highlighted the importance of systematic analysis and verification of LLM performance, particularly in high-stakes domains such as law and engineering. The development of new benchmarks, such as TempoBench and CLAUSE, has enabled more nuanced assessments of LLM reasoning capabilities, including their ability to detect and reason about fine-grained discrepancies and subtle errors. Furthermore, the introduction of frameworks like EngChain and LiveSearchBench has facilitated the evaluation of LLMs in dynamic and specialized contexts, such as engineering problem-solving and retrieval-dependent question answering. Noteworthy papers in this area include TempoBench, which introduces a formally grounded and verifiable diagnostic benchmark for LLM reasoning, and CLAUSE, which presents a benchmark for evaluating the fragility of LLM legal reasoning. Additionally, papers like EngChain and LiveSearchBench have made significant contributions to the development of more comprehensive and realistic evaluation protocols for LLMs.

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Mechanics of Learned Reasoning 1: TempoBench, A Benchmark for Interpretable Deconstruction of Reasoning System Performance

ARC-GEN: A Mimetic Procedural Benchmark Generator for the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus

Better Call CLAUSE: A Discrepancy Benchmark for Auditing LLMs Legal Reasoning Capabilities

Assessing LLM Reasoning Steps via Principal Knowledge Grounding

TSVer: A Benchmark for Fact Verification Against Time-Series Evidence

FEval-TTC: Fair Evaluation Protocol for Test-Time Compute

The Ouroboros of Benchmarking: Reasoning Evaluation in an Era of Saturation

LiveSearchBench: An Automatically Constructed Benchmark for Retrieval and Reasoning over Dynamic Knowledge

EngChain: A Symbolic Benchmark for Verifiable Multi-Step Reasoning in Engineering

Unlocking the Power of Multi-Agent LLM for Reasoning: From Lazy Agents to Deliberation

Knowledge Graph-enhanced Large Language Model for Incremental Game PlayTesting

KGFR: A Foundation Retriever for Generalized Knowledge Graph Question Answering

Monitor-Generate-Verify (MGV):Formalising Metacognitive Theory for Language Model Reasoning

Ground-Truth Subgraphs for Better Training and Evaluation of Knowledge Graph Augmented LLMs

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