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PublishedJuly 2, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Know When to Stop: Segment-Level Credit Assignment for Reducing Overthinking
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arXiv:2607.00482v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning language models frequently overthink: generating extended chains of behaviors such as hedging, approach abandonment, and self contradiction that consume tokens without improving answers. We show that these behaviors are not merely a consequen
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