Introducing LongCat-Flash-Thinking: A Technical Report

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Main Authors: Meituan LongCat Team, Gui, Anchun, Li, Bei, Tao, Bingyang, Zhou, Bole, Chen, Borun, Zhang, Chao, Han, Chengcheng, Yang, Chenhui, Zhang, Chi, Peng, Chong, Zhang, Chuyu, Chen, Cong, Li, Fengcun, Xu, Gang, Lin, Guoyuan, Jiang, Hao, Liang, Hao, Fu, Haomin, Ma, Haoxiang, Liu, Hong, Hao, Hongyan, Tang, Hongyin, Zang, Hongyu, Ni, Hongzhi, Su, Hui, Liu, Jiahao, Li, Jiahuan, Liu, Jialin, Zhang, Jianfei, Xu, Jianhao, Wang, Jianing, Sun, Jiaqi, Zhang, Jiaqi, Shi, Jiarong, Yang, Jiawei, Wang, Jingang, Ding, Jinrui, Kuang, Jun, Xu, Jun, He, Ke, Zhang, Kefeng, Wang, Keheng, He, Keqing, Wei, Li, Shi, Liang, Qiu, Lin, Kong, Lingbin, Liu, Lingchuan, Guo, Linsen, An, Longfei, Xia, Mai, Zhou, Meng, Zhu, Mengshen, Pei, Peng, Jia, Pengcheng, Gu, Qi, Guo, Qi, Huang, Qiong, Chen, Quan, Weng, Quanchi, Weng, Rongxiang, Shao, Ruichen, Li, Rumei, Lei, Shanglin, Du, Shuai, Liu, Shuaikang, Zhou, Shuang, Hu, Shuhao, Xu, Siyu, Gong, Songshan, Liang, Tao, Hu, Tianhao, He, Wei, Shi, Wei, Wang, Wei, Wu, Wei, Zhuo, Wei, Tang, Weifeng, Shi, Wenjie, Zhu, Wenlong, Su, Xi, Liu, Xiangcheng, Xi, Xiangyu, Huang, Xiangzhou, Liu, Xiao, Jiang, Xiaochen, Shi, Xiaowei, Shi, Xiaowen, Li, Xiaoyu, Chen, Xin, Zhao, Xinyue, Huang, Xuan, Zhang, Xuemiao, Cao, Xuezhi, Cai, Xunliang, Zhang, Yajie, Chen, Yang, Liu, Yang, Zheng, Yang, Wang, Yaoming, Huo, Yaqi, Sun, Yerui, Lu, Yifan, Li, Yiyang, Xiao, Youshao, Lei, Yuanzhe, Xie, Yuchen, Sun, Yueqing, Zhang, Yufei, Wei, Yuhuai, Qian, Yulei, Zhao, Yunke, Ding, Yuqing, Jiang, Yuwei, Yang, Zhaohua, Chen, Zhengyu, Liu, Zhijian, Xia, Zhikang, Su, Zhongda, Li, Ziran, Wang, Ziwen, Zhuang, Ziyuan, Wang, Zongyu, Yang, Zunyuan
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author Meituan LongCat Team
Gui, Anchun
Li, Bei
Tao, Bingyang
Zhou, Bole
Chen, Borun
Zhang, Chao
Zhang, Chao
Han, Chengcheng
Yang, Chenhui
Zhang, Chi
Peng, Chong
Zhang, Chuyu
Chen, Cong
Li, Fengcun
Xu, Gang
Lin, Guoyuan
Jiang, Hao
Liang, Hao
Fu, Haomin
Ma, Haoxiang
Liu, Hong
Hao, Hongyan
Tang, Hongyin
Zang, Hongyu
Ni, Hongzhi
Su, Hui
Liu, Jiahao
Li, Jiahuan
Liu, Jialin
Zhang, Jianfei
Xu, Jianhao
Wang, Jianing
Sun, Jiaqi
Zhang, Jiaqi
Shi, Jiarong
Yang, Jiawei
Wang, Jingang
Ding, Jinrui
Kuang, Jun
Xu, Jun
He, Ke
Zhang, Kefeng
Wang, Keheng
He, Keqing
Wei, Li
Shi, Liang
Qiu, Lin
Kong, Lingbin
Liu, Lingchuan
Guo, Linsen
An, Longfei
Xia, Mai
Zhou, Meng
Zhu, Mengshen
Pei, Peng
Jia, Pengcheng
Gu, Qi
Guo, Qi
Huang, Qiong
Chen, Quan
Weng, Quanchi
Weng, Rongxiang
Shao, Ruichen
Li, Rumei
Lei, Shanglin
Du, Shuai
Liu, Shuaikang
Zhou, Shuang
Hu, Shuhao
Xu, Siyu
Gong, Songshan
Liang, Tao
Hu, Tianhao
He, Wei
Shi, Wei
Wang, Wei
Wu, Wei
Zhuo, Wei
Tang, Weifeng
Shi, Wenjie
Zhu, Wenlong
Su, Xi
Liu, Xiangcheng
Xi, Xiangyu
Huang, Xiangzhou
Liu, Xiao
Jiang, Xiaochen
Shi, Xiaowei
Shi, Xiaowen
Li, Xiaoyu
Chen, Xin
Zhao, Xinyue
Huang, Xuan
Zhang, Xuemiao
Cao, Xuezhi
Cai, Xunliang
Zhang, Yajie
Chen, Yang
Liu, Yang
Liu, Yang
Zheng, Yang
Wang, Yaoming
Huo, Yaqi
Sun, Yerui
Lu, Yifan
Li, Yiyang
Xiao, Youshao
Lei, Yuanzhe
Xie, Yuchen
Sun, Yueqing
Zhang, Yufei
Wei, Yuhuai
Qian, Yulei
Zhao, Yunke
Ding, Yuqing
Jiang, Yuwei
Yang, Zhaohua
Chen, Zhengyu
Liu, Zhijian
Xia, Zhikang
Su, Zhongda
Li, Ziran
Wang, Ziwen
Zhuang, Ziyuan
Wang, Zongyu
Yang, Zunyuan
author_facet Meituan LongCat Team
Gui, Anchun
Li, Bei
Tao, Bingyang
Zhou, Bole
Chen, Borun
Zhang, Chao
Zhang, Chao
Han, Chengcheng
Yang, Chenhui
Zhang, Chi
Peng, Chong
Zhang, Chuyu
Chen, Cong
Li, Fengcun
Xu, Gang
Lin, Guoyuan
Jiang, Hao
Liang, Hao
Fu, Haomin
Ma, Haoxiang
Liu, Hong
Hao, Hongyan
Tang, Hongyin
Zang, Hongyu
Ni, Hongzhi
Su, Hui
Liu, Jiahao
Li, Jiahuan
Liu, Jialin
Zhang, Jianfei
Xu, Jianhao
Wang, Jianing
Sun, Jiaqi
Zhang, Jiaqi
Shi, Jiarong
Yang, Jiawei
Wang, Jingang
Ding, Jinrui
Kuang, Jun
Xu, Jun
He, Ke
Zhang, Kefeng
Wang, Keheng
He, Keqing
Wei, Li
Shi, Liang
Qiu, Lin
Kong, Lingbin
Liu, Lingchuan
Guo, Linsen
An, Longfei
Xia, Mai
Zhou, Meng
Zhu, Mengshen
Pei, Peng
Jia, Pengcheng
Gu, Qi
Guo, Qi
Huang, Qiong
Chen, Quan
Weng, Quanchi
Weng, Rongxiang
Shao, Ruichen
Li, Rumei
Lei, Shanglin
Du, Shuai
Liu, Shuaikang
Zhou, Shuang
Hu, Shuhao
Xu, Siyu
Gong, Songshan
Liang, Tao
Hu, Tianhao
He, Wei
Shi, Wei
Wang, Wei
Wu, Wei
Zhuo, Wei
Tang, Weifeng
Shi, Wenjie
Zhu, Wenlong
Su, Xi
Liu, Xiangcheng
Xi, Xiangyu
Huang, Xiangzhou
Liu, Xiao
Jiang, Xiaochen
Shi, Xiaowei
Shi, Xiaowen
Li, Xiaoyu
Chen, Xin
Zhao, Xinyue
Huang, Xuan
Zhang, Xuemiao
Cao, Xuezhi
Cai, Xunliang
Zhang, Yajie
Chen, Yang
Liu, Yang
Liu, Yang
Zheng, Yang
Wang, Yaoming
Huo, Yaqi
Sun, Yerui
Lu, Yifan
Li, Yiyang
Xiao, Youshao
Lei, Yuanzhe
Xie, Yuchen
Sun, Yueqing
Zhang, Yufei
Wei, Yuhuai
Qian, Yulei
Zhao, Yunke
Ding, Yuqing
Jiang, Yuwei
Yang, Zhaohua
Chen, Zhengyu
Liu, Zhijian
Xia, Zhikang
Su, Zhongda
Li, Ziran
Wang, Ziwen
Zhuang, Ziyuan
Wang, Zongyu
Yang, Zunyuan
contents We present LongCat-Flash-Thinking, an efficient 560-billion-parameter open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) reasoning model. Its advanced capabilities are cultivated through a meticulously crafted training process, beginning with long Chain-of-Thought (CoT) data cold-start and culminating in large-scale Reinforcement Learning (RL). We first employ a well-designed cold-start training strategy, which significantly enhances the reasoning potential and equips the model with specialized skills in both formal and agentic reasoning. Then, a core innovation is our domain-parallel training scheme, which decouples optimization across distinct domains (e.g., STEM, Code, Agentic) and subsequently fuses the resulting expert models into a single, nearly Pareto-optimal model. This entire process is powered by our Dynamic ORchestration for Asynchronous rollout (DORA) system, a large-scale RL framework that delivers a greater than threefold training speedup over synchronous methods on tens of thousands of accelerators. As a result, LongCat-Flash-Thinking achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source models on a suite of complex reasoning tasks. The model exhibits exceptional efficiency in agentic reasoning, reducing average token consumption by 64.5% (from 19, 653 to 6, 965) on AIME-25, without degrading task accuracy. We release LongCat-Flash-Thinking to promote further advances in reasoning systems and agentic AI research.
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spellingShingle Introducing LongCat-Flash-Thinking: A Technical Report
Meituan LongCat Team
Gui, Anchun
Li, Bei
Tao, Bingyang
Zhou, Bole
Chen, Borun
Zhang, Chao
Zhang, Chao
Han, Chengcheng
Yang, Chenhui
Zhang, Chi
Peng, Chong
Zhang, Chuyu
Chen, Cong
Li, Fengcun
Xu, Gang
Lin, Guoyuan
Jiang, Hao
Liang, Hao
Fu, Haomin
Ma, Haoxiang
Liu, Hong
Hao, Hongyan
Tang, Hongyin
Zang, Hongyu
Ni, Hongzhi
Su, Hui
Liu, Jiahao
Li, Jiahuan
Liu, Jialin
Zhang, Jianfei
Xu, Jianhao
Wang, Jianing
Sun, Jiaqi
Zhang, Jiaqi
Shi, Jiarong
Yang, Jiawei
Wang, Jingang
Ding, Jinrui
Kuang, Jun
Xu, Jun
He, Ke
Zhang, Kefeng
Wang, Keheng
He, Keqing
Wei, Li
Shi, Liang
Qiu, Lin
Kong, Lingbin
Liu, Lingchuan
Guo, Linsen
An, Longfei
Xia, Mai
Zhou, Meng
Zhu, Mengshen
Pei, Peng
Jia, Pengcheng
Gu, Qi
Guo, Qi
Huang, Qiong
Chen, Quan
Weng, Quanchi
Weng, Rongxiang
Shao, Ruichen
Li, Rumei
Lei, Shanglin
Du, Shuai
Liu, Shuaikang
Zhou, Shuang
Hu, Shuhao
Xu, Siyu
Gong, Songshan
Liang, Tao
Hu, Tianhao
He, Wei
Shi, Wei
Wang, Wei
Wu, Wei
Zhuo, Wei
Tang, Weifeng
Shi, Wenjie
Zhu, Wenlong
Su, Xi
Liu, Xiangcheng
Xi, Xiangyu
Huang, Xiangzhou
Liu, Xiao
Jiang, Xiaochen
Shi, Xiaowei
Shi, Xiaowen
Li, Xiaoyu
Chen, Xin
Zhao, Xinyue
Huang, Xuan
Zhang, Xuemiao
Cao, Xuezhi
Cai, Xunliang
Zhang, Yajie
Chen, Yang
Liu, Yang
Liu, Yang
Zheng, Yang
Wang, Yaoming
Huo, Yaqi
Sun, Yerui
Lu, Yifan
Li, Yiyang
Xiao, Youshao
Lei, Yuanzhe
Xie, Yuchen
Sun, Yueqing
Zhang, Yufei
Wei, Yuhuai
Qian, Yulei
Zhao, Yunke
Ding, Yuqing
Jiang, Yuwei
Yang, Zhaohua
Chen, Zhengyu
Liu, Zhijian
Xia, Zhikang
Su, Zhongda
Li, Ziran
Wang, Ziwen
Zhuang, Ziyuan
Wang, Zongyu
Yang, Zunyuan
Artificial Intelligence
We present LongCat-Flash-Thinking, an efficient 560-billion-parameter open-source Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) reasoning model. Its advanced capabilities are cultivated through a meticulously crafted training process, beginning with long Chain-of-Thought (CoT) data cold-start and culminating in large-scale Reinforcement Learning (RL). We first employ a well-designed cold-start training strategy, which significantly enhances the reasoning potential and equips the model with specialized skills in both formal and agentic reasoning. Then, a core innovation is our domain-parallel training scheme, which decouples optimization across distinct domains (e.g., STEM, Code, Agentic) and subsequently fuses the resulting expert models into a single, nearly Pareto-optimal model. This entire process is powered by our Dynamic ORchestration for Asynchronous rollout (DORA) system, a large-scale RL framework that delivers a greater than threefold training speedup over synchronous methods on tens of thousands of accelerators. As a result, LongCat-Flash-Thinking achieves state-of-the-art performance among open-source models on a suite of complex reasoning tasks. The model exhibits exceptional efficiency in agentic reasoning, reducing average token consumption by 64.5% (from 19, 653 to 6, 965) on AIME-25, without degrading task accuracy. We release LongCat-Flash-Thinking to promote further advances in reasoning systems and agentic AI research.
title Introducing LongCat-Flash-Thinking: A Technical Report
topic Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18883