From Chaos to Order: The Atomic Reasoner Framework for Fine-grained Reasoning in Large Language Models

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Main Authors: Liu, Jinyi, Zheng, Yan, Cheng, Rong, Wu, Qiyu, Guo, Wei, Ni, Fei, Liang, Hebin, Yuan, Yifu, Mao, Hangyu, Zhang, Fuzheng, Hao, Jianye
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author Liu, Jinyi
Zheng, Yan
Cheng, Rong
Wu, Qiyu
Guo, Wei
Ni, Fei
Liang, Hebin
Yuan, Yifu
Mao, Hangyu
Zhang, Fuzheng
Hao, Jianye
author_facet Liu, Jinyi
Zheng, Yan
Cheng, Rong
Wu, Qiyu
Guo, Wei
Ni, Fei
Liang, Hebin
Yuan, Yifu
Mao, Hangyu
Zhang, Fuzheng
Hao, Jianye
contents Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable progress, yet their capacity for logical ``slow-thinking'' reasoning persists as a critical research frontier. Current inference scaling paradigms suffer from two fundamental constraints: fragmented thought flows compromising logical coherence, and intensively computational complexity that escalates with search space dimensions. To overcome these limitations, we present \textbf{Atomic Reasoner} (\textbf{AR}), a cognitive inference strategy that enables fine-grained reasoning through systematic atomic-level operations. AR decomposes the reasoning process into atomic cognitive units, employing a cognitive routing mechanism to dynamically construct reasoning representations and orchestrate inference pathways. This systematic methodology implements stepwise, structured cognition, which ensures logical coherence while significantly reducing cognitive load, effectively simulating the cognitive patterns observed in human deep thinking processes. Extensive experimental results demonstrate AR's superior reasoning capabilities without the computational burden of exhaustive solution searches, particularly excelling in linguistic logic puzzles. These findings substantiate AR's effectiveness in enhancing LLMs' capacity for robust, long-sequence logical reasoning and deliberation.
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spellingShingle From Chaos to Order: The Atomic Reasoner Framework for Fine-grained Reasoning in Large Language Models
Liu, Jinyi
Zheng, Yan
Cheng, Rong
Wu, Qiyu
Guo, Wei
Ni, Fei
Liang, Hebin
Yuan, Yifu
Mao, Hangyu
Zhang, Fuzheng
Hao, Jianye
Computation and Language
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable progress, yet their capacity for logical ``slow-thinking'' reasoning persists as a critical research frontier. Current inference scaling paradigms suffer from two fundamental constraints: fragmented thought flows compromising logical coherence, and intensively computational complexity that escalates with search space dimensions. To overcome these limitations, we present \textbf{Atomic Reasoner} (\textbf{AR}), a cognitive inference strategy that enables fine-grained reasoning through systematic atomic-level operations. AR decomposes the reasoning process into atomic cognitive units, employing a cognitive routing mechanism to dynamically construct reasoning representations and orchestrate inference pathways. This systematic methodology implements stepwise, structured cognition, which ensures logical coherence while significantly reducing cognitive load, effectively simulating the cognitive patterns observed in human deep thinking processes. Extensive experimental results demonstrate AR's superior reasoning capabilities without the computational burden of exhaustive solution searches, particularly excelling in linguistic logic puzzles. These findings substantiate AR's effectiveness in enhancing LLMs' capacity for robust, long-sequence logical reasoning and deliberation.
title From Chaos to Order: The Atomic Reasoner Framework for Fine-grained Reasoning in Large Language Models
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.15944