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LLM Reasoning2 papers, newest first
- LLM Reasoning
- Safety & Interpretability
LLMs often continue explicit reasoning despite instructions to answer directly
This paper defines and measures "no-thinking" in LLMs as the absence of visible explicit inference before the final answer. Across six LLMs and tasks, explicit no-thinking controls rarely eliminate reasoning traces, especially on open-ended tasks, revealing a trade-off between compliance and accuracy.
Paper: Thinking Inertia: LLMs Keep Thinking When Told Not To · Dianqiao Lei, Kevin Qinghong Lin, Pan Lu and 2 others
215 upvotes on Hugging Face13 Oct 20268 min readRead the article
- LLM Reasoning
- Language Models & Architectures
Protein folding training improves broad reasoning in language models
Training a language model on protein folding-derived question-answer data and 3D geometry improves its performance on ten diverse reasoning benchmarks by 3.23 percentage points, showing that structured scientific data can enhance general reasoning.
Paper: Does Learning Protein Folding Generalize to Broader Reasoning? · Yong Liu, Zhanpeng Shi, Yizhou Dang and 4 others
105 upvotes on Hugging Face5 Oct 20267 min readRead the article