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AIBullisharXiv – CS AI · Jun 47/10

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Mid-Think: Training-Free Intermediate-Budget Reasoning via Token-Level Triggers

Researchers discovered that language model reasoning behavior is primarily controlled by specific token patterns rather than high-level instructions, leading to the development of Mid-Think, a training-free prompting technique that achieves intermediate-budget reasoning with better accuracy-efficiency tradeoffs and improves RL training performance for models like Qwen3-8B.

AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · Apr 106/10

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Illocutionary Explanation Planning for Source-Faithful Explanations in Retrieval-Augmented Language Models

Researchers introduce chain-of-illocution (CoI) prompting to improve source faithfulness in retrieval-augmented language models, achieving up to 63% gains in source adherence for programming education tasks. The study reveals that standard RAG systems exhibit low fidelity to source materials, with non-RAG models performing worse, while a user study confirms improved faithfulness does not compromise user satisfaction.