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Main Authors: Zhang, Junyu, Dong, Runpei, Wang, Han, Ning, Xuying, Geng, Haoran, Li, Peihao, He, Xialin, Bai, Yutong, Malik, Jitendra, Gupta, Saurabh, Zhang, Huan
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24863
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author Zhang, Junyu
Dong, Runpei
Wang, Han
Ning, Xuying
Geng, Haoran
Li, Peihao
He, Xialin
Bai, Yutong
Malik, Jitendra
Gupta, Saurabh
Zhang, Huan
author_facet Zhang, Junyu
Dong, Runpei
Wang, Han
Ning, Xuying
Geng, Haoran
Li, Peihao
He, Xialin
Bai, Yutong
Malik, Jitendra
Gupta, Saurabh
Zhang, Huan
contents This paper presents AlphaOne ($α$1), a universal framework for modulating reasoning progress in large reasoning models (LRMs) at test time. $α$1 first introduces $α$ moment, which represents the scaled thinking phase with a universal parameter $α$. Within this scaled pre-$α$ moment phase, it dynamically schedules slow thinking transitions by modeling the insertion of reasoning transition tokens as a Bernoulli stochastic process. After the $α$ moment, $α$1 deterministically terminates slow thinking with the end-of-thinking token, thereby fostering fast reasoning and efficient answer generation. This approach unifies and generalizes existing monotonic scaling methods by enabling flexible and dense slow-to-fast reasoning modulation. Extensive empirical studies on various challenging benchmarks across mathematical, coding, and scientific domains demonstrate $α$1's superior reasoning capability and efficiency. Project page: https://alphaone-project.github.io/
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spellingShingle AlphaOne: Reasoning Models Thinking Slow and Fast at Test Time
Zhang, Junyu
Dong, Runpei
Wang, Han
Ning, Xuying
Geng, Haoran
Li, Peihao
He, Xialin
Bai, Yutong
Malik, Jitendra
Gupta, Saurabh
Zhang, Huan
Computation and Language
This paper presents AlphaOne ($α$1), a universal framework for modulating reasoning progress in large reasoning models (LRMs) at test time. $α$1 first introduces $α$ moment, which represents the scaled thinking phase with a universal parameter $α$. Within this scaled pre-$α$ moment phase, it dynamically schedules slow thinking transitions by modeling the insertion of reasoning transition tokens as a Bernoulli stochastic process. After the $α$ moment, $α$1 deterministically terminates slow thinking with the end-of-thinking token, thereby fostering fast reasoning and efficient answer generation. This approach unifies and generalizes existing monotonic scaling methods by enabling flexible and dense slow-to-fast reasoning modulation. Extensive empirical studies on various challenging benchmarks across mathematical, coding, and scientific domains demonstrate $α$1's superior reasoning capability and efficiency. Project page: https://alphaone-project.github.io/
title AlphaOne: Reasoning Models Thinking Slow and Fast at Test Time
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24863