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The Thinking Spectrum: An Empirical Study of Tunable Reasoning in LLMs through Model Merging

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Main Authors:	Lan, Xiaochong, Zheng, Yu, Cao, Shiteng, Li, Yong
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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