FROST: Filtering Reasoning Outliers with Attention for Efficient Reasoning
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| author | Luo, Haozheng Jiang, Zhuolin Hasan, Md Zahid Chen, Yan Sarkar, Soumalya |
| author_facet | Luo, Haozheng Jiang, Zhuolin Hasan, Md Zahid Chen, Yan Sarkar, Soumalya |
| contents | We propose FROST, an attention-aware method for efficient reasoning. Unlike traditional approaches, FROST leverages attention weights to prune uncritical reasoning paths, yielding shorter and more reliable reasoning trajectories. Methodologically, we introduce the concept of reasoning outliers and design an attention-based mechanism to remove them. Theoretically, FROST preserves and enhances the model's reasoning capacity while eliminating outliers at the sentence level. Empirically, we validate FROST on four benchmarks using two strong reasoning models (Phi-4-Reasoning and GPT-OSS-20B), outperforming state-of-the-art methods such as TALE and ThinkLess. Notably, FROST achieves an average 69.68% reduction in token usage and a 26.70% improvement in accuracy over the base model. Furthermore, in evaluations of attention outlier metrics, FROST reduces the maximum infinity norm by 15.97% and the average kurtosis by 91.09% compared to the base model. Code is available at https://github.com/robinzixuan/FROST |
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| spellingShingle | FROST: Filtering Reasoning Outliers with Attention for Efficient Reasoning Luo, Haozheng Jiang, Zhuolin Hasan, Md Zahid Chen, Yan Sarkar, Soumalya Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning We propose FROST, an attention-aware method for efficient reasoning. Unlike traditional approaches, FROST leverages attention weights to prune uncritical reasoning paths, yielding shorter and more reliable reasoning trajectories. Methodologically, we introduce the concept of reasoning outliers and design an attention-based mechanism to remove them. Theoretically, FROST preserves and enhances the model's reasoning capacity while eliminating outliers at the sentence level. Empirically, we validate FROST on four benchmarks using two strong reasoning models (Phi-4-Reasoning and GPT-OSS-20B), outperforming state-of-the-art methods such as TALE and ThinkLess. Notably, FROST achieves an average 69.68% reduction in token usage and a 26.70% improvement in accuracy over the base model. Furthermore, in evaluations of attention outlier metrics, FROST reduces the maximum infinity norm by 15.97% and the average kurtosis by 91.09% compared to the base model. Code is available at https://github.com/robinzixuan/FROST |
| title | FROST: Filtering Reasoning Outliers with Attention for Efficient Reasoning |
| topic | Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.19001 |