News / #reasoning Tag Reasoning 500 articles archived under #reasoning · RSS Sign in to follow r/LocalLLaMA community 15d ago The difference between "medium" and "xhigh" reasoning effort for Qwen3.8-27B is actually insane. I'm currently testing out Qwen3.8-27B using Unsloth's UD-Q4_K_XL running a freshly rebuilt llama.cpp. I have a 22GB RTX 2080TI on which I'm able to fit 100k context with q8_0 quantization, and using MTP with --spec-draft-n-max 4 I get about 40tk/s which is slightly less than… 10 r/LocalLLaMA community 15d ago A 150M param recurrent model scores 29.5% on ARC-AGI-1 at $0.0007 per task Not a transformer. It's a recurrent latent reasoning setup that keeps "thinking" in latent space before answering. Sits completely outside the published cost/accuracy frontier for ARC-AGI, and something this size runs on basically anything. Paper is from the Pathway team,… 25 llama.cpp releases dev-tools 15d ago b10434 chat : pass reasoning_effort to template chat: add reasoning_effort to common_chat_templates_inputs Store OpenAI Chat Completions reasoning_effort and make it available to jinja templates (with model specific translations where required). Assisted-by: llama.cpp:Muse-Glimmer-30B… 16 r/LocalLLaMA community 15d ago Alright, We got Qwen3.8-27B. Now it's community's turn to make it more better & faster Facing any issues? Chat Template is fine? Looping issue? Too much reasoning thing? How's MTP with this one? Any other issues faced by Qwen3.6-27B & Qwen3.5-27B during release time? If I missed any other items, please mention in your comments. AND Share comparison with… 31 LangChain releases dev-tools 15d ago langchain-openai==1.5.1 Changes since langchain-openai==1.5.0 release(openai): 1.5.1 ( #39653 ) fix(openai): preserve streamed encrypted reasoning ( #39635 ) chore(infra): support langsmith gateway in CI ( #39651 ) 14 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 15d ago Hybrid-Policy Self-Editing for Composable Unstructured Knowledge Editing Abstract HPSE improves unstructured knowledge editing by distilling from hybrid rollouts that insert missing facts into the model's reasoning paths, enabling composable multi-hop reasoning. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small Large language models (LLMs) achieve… 25 Ollama releases dev-tools 15d ago v0.32.12: qwen3.8: add renderer and MLX import support Qwen3.8 keeps the Qwen3.5 model architecture and parser, but its chat template adds reasoning-effort and preserved-thinking semantics. Detect those template markers during safetensors import, select the qwen3.8 renderer, and cover thinking, tools, continuation, and malformed… 14 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 16d ago Intern-S2-Preview: Scientific Agentic Foundation Model Abstract Intern-S2-Preview is a scientific agentic foundation model series that integrates multimodal pre-training, multi-task reinforcement learning, and memory-augmented extensions to support long-horizon scientific reasoning and forecasting. Generated by… 33 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 16d ago Are You Sure You're Sure? On the Impact of Instruction Tuning on Confidence and Lexical Diversity Abstract Instruction tuning changes model confidence and reduces rationale diversity without improving calibration, indicating distinct effects on reasoning and certainty. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small Instruction-tuned language models achieve strong performance… 26 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 16d ago Knowing When to Quit: Diagnosing and Training LLMs to Abort Futile Reasoning Abstract CaRL uses reinforcement learning with refusal incentives and hindsight augmentation to reduce futile reasoning in large language models while preserving task performance. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small Large language models generate computationally… 28 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Position: Reasoning is a Learnable Rule-Based Process arXiv:2608.12325v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous reasoning is among the most scientifically and economically motivating topics in AI today. Historically the purview of symbolic AI, recent advances have mainly emerged from deep probabilistic generative models. Despite… 22 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago LLMs Know the Constraint But Do Not Use It: Activation Bottlenecks in Pragmatic Constraint Reasoning arXiv:2608.12321v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When a salient surface cue competes with an implicit feasibility constraint, LLMs often fail -- but aggregate accuracy conflates genuine constraint inference with conservative defaulting. We formalize the distinction as conditional… 10 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago What Drives LLM Self-Reflection? A Controlled Ablation of Uncertainty Routing in Armed Conflict Forecasting arXiv:2608.12322v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-reflection is widely assumed to improve LLM reasoning, yet which component drives the gain remains poorly understood. We present a controlled six-condition ablation isolating four components of LLM self-reflection: evidence… 6 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago On Measuring Semantic Preservation in Legal Ontology Learning arXiv:2608.12326v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ontology learning transforms unstructured text into structured representations for automated reasoning. Yet structuring information risks losing it, and current evaluation methodologies cannot detect such loss, focusing on… 26 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Thought-Aware KV Cache Compaction for Reasoning via Adaptive Attention Matching arXiv:2608.12331v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning language models generate lengthy chain-of-thought (CoT) sequences whose key-value (KV) cache grows linearly and becomes a memory bottleneck during decoding. Existing compaction methods treat reasoning trajectories as flat… 25 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Large Language Models Pass the History Exam But Miss the <<History>>: A Polish High School Exit Exam Matura Benchmark arXiv:2608.12343v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI chatbots are widely used by students as knowledge sources, yet LLM benchmarks rarely assess interpretative historical reasoning. We evaluate eight leading LLMs on the Polish high school exit exams (Matura) in history - three… 12 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Are you Talking Logic to Me? Assessing Language Models Syllogistic Reasoning Capabilities arXiv:2608.12374v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models (LMs) struggle with logical tasks like reasoning on syllogisms. It has been shown that Knowledge Representation (KR) plays a crucial role in expressing input information to help models solve tasks. This observation… 28 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Unified Multi-Dimensional Benchmark for Complex Graph Reasoning in Large Language Models arXiv:2608.12391v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Graph reasoning provides a promising testbed for evaluating the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs), as graph instances can be programmatically generated, structurally controlled, and naturally scaled to long-input… 36 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago LLMs Are Not Good Strategists, Yet Memory-Enhanced Agency Boosts Reasoning arXiv:2608.12626v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Strategic reasoning in Large Language Models (LLMs) within long-horizon environments is often limited by inconsistent subgoals. In these settings, finite attention resources prevent the model from maintaining strategic coherence… 29 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago CRAFT: LLM-Based Iterative Refinement for Temporal Reasoning over Clinical Narratives arXiv:2608.12779v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Understanding the temporal progression of symptoms in clinical narratives is critical for disease monitoring, safety surveillance, and causality assessment. Clinical narratives, however, rarely provide explicit temporal anchors.… 14 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago From Atomic Evidence to Logical Composition: Structured Compositional Reasoning over Compound Answer Options arXiv:2608.12836v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models often fail when answer options require combining atomic judgments under explicit logical operators, even when they judge the individual atoms correctly. We study compound options connected by AND, OR, and… 8 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago HybridRAG-BN: A Retrieval-Augmented Framework with Fine-Tuned Verification for Bangla KBQA arXiv:2608.13004v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Knowledge-base question answering (KBQA) systems rely on effective retrieval and reasoning mechanisms to generate accurate answers from external knowledge sources. However, developing reliable KBQA systems for low-resource… 19 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago GEM: A Generative Embedding Model Bridging Reasoning and Retrieval arXiv:2608.13200v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern LLMs excel at reasoning and instruction following, enabling users to express complex and diverse information needs. However, conventional retrievers largely rely on surface-level matching between queries and documents,… 32 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Localize, Then Reason: Visual Latent Structural Reasoning for Molecular Properties and Edits arXiv:2608.13244v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Local chemical perception and property reasoning are both essential for understanding how molecular structure determines properties. Current LLM-based chemical reasoning methods either receive SMILES/molecular images together with… 36 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago How Do VLMs Behave When Blind or Misled? Behavioral Evaluation of VLMs on Scientific Figures arXiv:2608.13267v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing vision-language model (VLM) benchmarks emphasize perception and reasoning accuracy (how well VLMs describe and reason about what they see in an image), with limited attention to behavioral reliability under uncertainty… 20 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Beyond Local Accuracy: A Protocol-Level Identifiability Audit for Controlled LLM Reasoning Evaluation arXiv:2608.13326v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM benchmark scores can be precise even when the observation protocol does not identify the behavioral property they are intended to measure. In a controlled, solver-grounded setting, we formalize a protocol-level identifiability… 20 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago RippleMem: From Isolated Retrieval to Associative Recollection for Long-Term Agent Memory arXiv:2608.13334v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based agents increasingly rely on external memory to support long-horizon reasoning and interaction. However, the main bottleneck is not simply storing past experience, but recovering the right set of evidence when relevant… 38 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago Large Language Models Can Follow Instructions, But Not Many at Once: Phase Transitions in Compositional Constraint Satisfaction arXiv:2608.12426v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly deployed in settings that require simultaneous adherence to multiple explicit constraints - reasoning structure, safety boundaries, output schemas. Individual constraints are handled… 33 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 16d ago MARC v1: An Open-Source Multi-Agent Framework for Clinical AI Reasoning and Coordination arXiv:2608.13476v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present Multi-Agent Reasoning and Coordination (MARC), an open-source framework that replaces monolithic LLM prompting with deterministic multi-agent orchestration for clinical reasoning. MARC coordinates role-specialized… 17 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 16d ago Spatial Memory Agent: Experience-Grounded Procedure Memory for Spatial Intelligence Abstract A frozen vision-language model improves spatial reasoning by self-evolving through verified experience, reflection, and reusable memory retrieval without parameter updates or external tools. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small Spatial intelligence is becoming a… 30 r/LocalLLaMA community 16d ago 1BIT Qwen 3.8 2.4T a95b (unsloth iQ1_S) (MEDIUM Reasoning) Processing img az99qopcg8jh1... So same as my prior post 1bit test... although this 1bit is a bit interesting you can read on unlsoth blog https://unsloth.ai/docs/models/qwen3.8 508 gigs being used I am using unsloth studio on the mac ultra 512. Im getting ~50pp and ~9.6 tgen… 28 r/LocalLLaMA community 16d ago Fixed Jinja chat template for Qwen 3.5, 3.6, and the new 3.8 release Qwen just released their first 3.8 model. The main addition in 3.8 is prompt-steered reasoning effort. You can tell the model how deeply to think by setting reasoning_effort to xhigh , medium , or low . However, the official template still has some serious problems: You cannot… 14 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 16d ago Learning How the World Evolves: Extrapolative Video World Models via Latent Dynamics Reasoning Abstract Latent Dynamics Reasoning integrates kinematic dynamics in structured latent space to enable video world models that extrapolate physical laws far beyond training distributions with far fewer parameters and faster inference. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small… 35 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 16d ago Full-bandwidth transformer Abstract Full-bandwidth transformers use latent feedback of top-layer hidden states to improve reasoning and efficiency without altering the core architecture. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small Autoregressive transformers compute along two axes: horizontally across… 22 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 17d ago AVA-Encoder: Towards Agent-Native Video Representation Learning Abstract AVA-Encoder learns structured video representations via agentic auto-encoding using knowledge graphs to enable cinematic video generation and reasoning with reduced token usage. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small Creative agents still lack an effective way to… 30 Hugging Face Daily Papers research 17d ago AtlasVLA: Persistent World-Ego State Modeling for Vision-Language-Action Models Abstract AtlasVLA improves embodied AI by replacing reactive control with proactive reasoning via persistent world-ego memory, enabling robust long-horizon manipulation from a single wrist camera. Generated by thinkingmachines/Inkling-Small While Vision-Language-Action (VLA)… 36 arXiv — Machine Learning research 17d ago PAIR: Pairwise-Aware Inclusion Reweighting for Adaptive Rollout Allocation in RLVR arXiv:2608.11368v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) spends most of its compute generating groups of long reasoning trajectories. Recent allocators reduce this cost by assigning budgets to prompts, rollouts, or tokens according to… 26 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 17d ago LEMUR: Latent Entropy-aware Multimodal Unlearning via Visual-anchored Reasoning Redirection arXiv:2608.11691v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement-learning (RL) post-training equips multimodal large reasoning models (MLRMs) with exploratory chains of thought (CoT), substantially improving visual reasoning. However, we find that this capability introduces a… 18 arXiv — Machine Learning research 17d ago Chain-of-Thought Shows the Path to a Tree: Realizing Branching Complexity arXiv:2608.11716v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain of Thought (CoT) lifts the expressive ceiling of bounded-depth Transformers, with characterizations tying the number of CoT steps to circuit complexity classes. What remains largely missing are concrete instantiations with… 6 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 17d ago Towards Understanding On-Policy Distillation through the Lens of Test-Time Scaling arXiv:2608.11829v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: On-policy distillation (OPD) has emerged as a promising post-training technique for enhancing LLM reasoning. It is commonly believed to enable the student model to distill knowledge from a stronger teacher model, thereby… 29 arXiv — Machine Learning research 17d ago LoongReflect: Boosting Long-Horizon Reflection in Search Agents via Global Perspective Distillation arXiv:2608.11967v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model agents increasingly rely on long-horizon reasoning to solve complex tasks involving planning, tool use, and memory. A critical capability in such settings is reflection: assessing trajectory progress,… 31 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 17d ago Reproducing and Stress-Testing Two Approaches to LLM Reasoning Reliability: Test-Time Probability Aggregation and Logic-Representation Editing arXiv:2608.08514v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We independently reproduce two recent methods for making large language model (LLM) reasoning more reliable, and stress-test them across domains and models (RPC across four new task domains with Qwen3-8B, LCF across four 7-8B… 35 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 17d ago Reinforcing Step-level Reasoning for Effective Self-Correction in LLMs arXiv:2608.11573v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Achieving effective self-correction, where models verify and correct their own mistakes, remains a fundamental challenge for large language models (LLMs). In this work, we propose Self-Fix Step-DPO (SFS-DPO), a reinforcement… 35 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 17d ago AWARe: Mitigating Catastrophic Forgetting via Activation-Weighted Adaptive REtention arXiv:2608.11758v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) exhibit strong generalization and reasoning abilities due to large-scale multimodal pre-training. However, fine-tuning these models on downstream tasks often leads to catastrophic… 34 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 17d ago GRPO for Financial Advice Generation: Outperforming Commercial LLMs under CATE Evaluation arXiv:2608.11787v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generating actionable financial advice from business records demands that models integrate numerical reasoning, domain knowledge, and sound judgment, while avoiding recommendations that could harm the business. Direct supervision… 6 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 17d ago Social Chain of Thought: A Multi-Agent Architecture Grounded in Medical Differential Diagnosis Methodology arXiv:2608.11420v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical diagnostic reasoning is a high-impact use case for LLMs that carries significant implications for the health and wellbeing of users. When OpenAI (2026) reports that more than 5% of ChatGPT messages globally are… 9 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 17d ago Confucius4-TTS: Transcript-Free Cross-Lingual Zero-Shot TTS with a Learnable Speaker Encoder arXiv:2608.11650v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) have substantially improved speech quality and voice cloning fidelity. However, many zero-shot TTS systems still depend on audio prompt transcripts at inference time. This… 8 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 17d ago LookBack: Where and How to Score LVLM Responses via Visual Reference Usage arXiv:2608.11847v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) integrate visual perception with language generation, enabling responses that span image understanding and complex reasoning. However, LVLMs do not just inherit the text-level hallucinations;… 14 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 17d ago Claim-Level Reliability Assessment for Efficient Test-Time Reasoning arXiv:2608.11994v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose claim-level falsification as a principle for test-time scaling and instantiate it through Claim-Level Reliability Assessment (CLR), a training-free framework that reallocates test-time compute from additional solution… 38 arXiv — NLP / Computation & Language research 17d ago A Reality Check of Language Models as Formalizers on Constraint Satisfaction Problems arXiv:2505.13252v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent work shows superior performance when using large language models (LLMs) as formalizers instead of as end-to-end solvers for symbolic reasoning problems. Given the problem description, the LLM generates a formal program… 17 Page 6 of 10 · 500 articles ← Newer Older →
