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Do Thinking Tokens Help or Trap? Towards More Efficient Large Reasoning Model

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Main Authors:	Ding, Bowen, Chen, Yuhan, Wang, Futing, Ming, Lingfeng, Lin, Tao
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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