Stop Overthinking: A Survey on Efficient Reasoning for Large Language Models — mentioned by observationist

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:01:29 GMT

This is an active research topic - two papers on this have come out over the last few days, one cutting half of the tokens and actually boosting performance overall. I'd hazard a guess that they could get another 40% reduction, if they can come up with better reasoning scaffolding. Each advance over the last 4 years, from RLHF to o1 reasoning to multi-agent, multi-cluster parallelized CoT, has resulted in a new engineering scope, and the low hanging fruit in each place gets explored over the course of 8-12 months. We still probably have a year or 2 of low hanging fruit and hacking on…

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Stop Overthinking: A Survey on Efficient Reasoning for Large Language Models — mentioned by observationist