Large Language Models' Reasoning Stalls: An Investigation into the Capabilities of Frontier Models

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Large Language Models' Reasoning Stalls: An Investigation into the Capabilities of Frontier Models

26 May 2025

Lachlan McGinness

Peter Baumgartner

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Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards Implicitly Incentivizes Correct Reasoning in Base LLMs Xumeng Wen Zihan Liu Shun Zheng Zhijian Xu Shengyu Ye ... Yang Wang Junjie Li Ziming Miao Jiang Bian Mao Yang LRM 43 0 0 17 Jun 2025
Steamroller Problems: An Evaluation of LLM Reasoning Capability with Automated Theorem Prover Strategies Lachlan McGinness Peter Baumgartner LRM 60 1 0 17 Jul 2024
Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Geometric Perspective Romain Cosentino Sarath Shekkizhar LRM 104 3 0 02 Jul 2024
Let's Think Dot by Dot: Hidden Computation in Transformer Language Models Jacob Pfau William Merrill Samuel R. Bowman LRM 100 83 0 24 Apr 2024
Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Large Language Models: A Survey Yunfan Gao Yun Xiong Xinyu Gao Kangxiang Jia Jinliu Pan Yuxi Bi Yi Dai Jiawei Sun Meng Wang Haofen Wang 3DV RALM 347 1,846 1 18 Dec 2023
Instruction-Following Evaluation for Large Language Models Jeffrey Zhou Tianjian Lu Swaroop Mishra Siddhartha Brahma Sujoy Basu Yi Luan Denny Zhou Le Hou ELM ALM LRM 107 299 0 14 Nov 2023
Unleashing the potential of prompt engineering in Large Language Models: a comprehensive review Banghao Chen Zhaofeng Zhang Nicolas Langrené Shengxin Zhu LLMAG 122 13 0 23 Oct 2023
Embers of Autoregression: Understanding Large Language Models Through the Problem They are Trained to Solve R. Thomas McCoy Shunyu Yao Dan Friedman Matthew Hardy Thomas Griffiths 69 160 0 24 Sep 2023
DISC-LawLLM: Fine-tuning Large Language Models for Intelligent Legal Services Shengbin Yue Wei Chen Siyuan Wang Bingxuan Li Chenchen Shen ... Yuxuan Zhou Yao Xiao Song Yun Xuanjing Huang Zhongyu Wei AILaw ELM 119 99 0 20 Sep 2023
Large Language Models Fail on Trivial Alterations to Theory-of-Mind Tasks T. Ullman LRM 92 241 0 16 Feb 2023
Challenging BIG-Bench Tasks and Whether Chain-of-Thought Can Solve Them Mirac Suzgun Nathan Scales Nathanael Scharli Sebastian Gehrmann Yi Tay ... Aakanksha Chowdhery Quoc V. Le Ed H. Chi Denny Zhou Jason W. Wei ALM ELM LRM ReLM 301 1,144 0 17 Oct 2022
Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems K. Cobbe V. Kosaraju Mohammad Bavarian Mark Chen Heewoo Jun ... Jerry Tworek Jacob Hilton Reiichiro Nakano Christopher Hesse John Schulman ReLM OffRL LRM 451 4,610 0 27 Oct 2021
Program Synthesis with Large Language Models Jacob Austin Augustus Odena Maxwell Nye Maarten Bosma Henryk Michalewski ... Ellen Jiang Carrie J. Cai Michael Terry Quoc V. Le Charles Sutton ELM AIMat ReCod ALM 218 2,024 0 16 Aug 2021
Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code Mark Chen Jerry Tworek Heewoo Jun Qiming Yuan Henrique Pondé ... Bob McGrew Dario Amodei Sam McCandlish Ilya Sutskever Wojciech Zaremba ELM ALM 307 5,702 0 07 Jul 2021
Scaling Laws for Transfer Danny Hernandez Jared Kaplan T. Henighan Sam McCandlish 100 251 0 02 Feb 2021
Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models Jared Kaplan Sam McCandlish T. Henighan Tom B. Brown B. Chess R. Child Scott Gray Alec Radford Jeff Wu Dario Amodei 679 4,948 0 23 Jan 2020
HellaSwag: Can a Machine Really Finish Your Sentence? Rowan Zellers Ari Holtzman Yonatan Bisk Ali Farhadi Yejin Choi 247 2,538 0 19 May 2019
DROP: A Reading Comprehension Benchmark Requiring Discrete Reasoning Over Paragraphs Dheeru Dua Yizhong Wang Pradeep Dasigi Gabriel Stanovsky Sameer Singh Matt Gardner AIMat 189 967 0 01 Mar 2019
HotpotQA: A Dataset for Diverse, Explainable Multi-hop Question Answering Zhilin Yang Peng Qi Saizheng Zhang Yoshua Bengio William W. Cohen Ruslan Salakhutdinov Christopher D. Manning RALM 277 2,712 0 25 Sep 2018