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When Is Thinking Enough? Early Exit via Sufficiency Assessment for Efficient Reasoning

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Main Authors:	Xiang, Yang, Ji, Yixin, Xu, Ruotao, Qiao, Dan, Yang, Zheming, Li, Juntao, Zhang, Min
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computation and Language
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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