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PublishedJune 26, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Humans Disengage, Reasoning Models Persist: Separating Difficulty Registration from Deliberation Allocation
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arXiv:2606.26502v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large reasoning models (LRMs) take longer on harder problems, just as humans do. This surface similarity hides an opposite pattern within items. When an LRM gets a problem wrong, it spends more tokens than when it gets the same problem right; humans do
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