Pith. sign in

REVIEW 8 cited by

Dynamic Parallel Tree Search for Efficient LLM Reasoning

Not yet reviewed by Pith; the record is open.

This paper has not been read by Pith yet. Machine review is queued; the pith claim, tier, and objections will appear here once it completes.

SPECIMEN: schema-true, not a live event

T0 review · schema-true

One-sentence machine reading of the paper's core claim.

pith:XXXXXXXX · record.json · timestamp

arxiv 2502.16235 v2 pith:XOHXV65F submitted 2025-02-22 cs.AI

classification cs.AI
keywords reasoningsearchtreefocusparallelismaccuracydptsdynamic
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal
0 comments
read the original abstract

Tree of Thoughts (ToT) enhances Large Language Model (LLM) reasoning by structuring problem-solving as a spanning tree. However, recent methods focus on search accuracy while overlooking computational efficiency. The challenges of accelerating the ToT lie in the frequent switching of reasoning focus, and the redundant exploration of suboptimal solutions. To alleviate this dilemma, we propose Dynamic Parallel Tree Search (DPTS), a novel parallelism framework that aims to dynamically optimize the reasoning path in inference. It includes the Parallelism Streamline in the generation phase to build up a flexible and adaptive parallelism with arbitrary paths by fine-grained cache management and alignment. Meanwhile, the Search and Transition Mechanism filters potential candidates to dynamically maintain the reasoning focus on more possible solutions and have less redundancy. Experiments on Qwen-2.5 and Llama-3 with Math500 and GSM8K datasets show that DPTS significantly improves efficiency by 2-4x on average while maintaining or even surpassing existing reasoning algorithms in accuracy, making ToT-based reasoning more scalable and computationally efficient.

Discussion (0). Sign in to comment.

Forward citations

Cited by 8 Pith papers

Reviewed papers in the Pith corpus that reference this work. Sorted by Pith novelty score. Full citation record

  1. AALC: Large Language Model Efficient Reasoning via Adaptive Accuracy-Length Control

    cs.CL 2025-06 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    AALC, an accuracy-aware length reward, reduces reasoning-model response length by over 50% on math benchmarks while preserving or improving accuracy.

  2. MARCO: Meta-Reflection with Cross-Referencing for Code Reasoning

    cs.CL 2025-05 conditional novelty 6.0 of 10

    MARCO combines cross-problem knowledge accumulation with cross-agent lesson sharing to improve LLM code reasoning at inference time.

  3. Not All Errors Are Created Equal: ASCoT Addresses Late-Stage Fragility in Efficient LLM Reasoning

    cs.CL 2025-08 reject novelty 5.0 of 10

    ASCoT claims later reasoning errors are more harmful than early ones and uses a position-weighted verifier to prune and correct CoT steps, but its key evidence is internally inconsistent.

  4. CoRE: Enhancing Metacognition with Label-free Self-evaluation in LRMs

    cs.LG 2025-07 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

    A training-free and label-free detector of cyclic hidden-state patterns triggers early exit during chain-of-thought reasoning, reducing token length while mostly preserving or improving accuracy.

  5. Reasoning on a Budget: A Survey of Adaptive and Controllable Test-Time Compute in LLMs

    cs.AI 2025-07 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

    The survey's L1/L2 taxonomy and benchmark show that current reasoning models waste compute on easy problems and underthink hard ones, motivating more adaptive inference.

  6. Can Past Experience Accelerate LLM Reasoning?

    cs.LG 2025-05 conditional novelty 5.0 of 10

    LLMs can cut reasoning compute by up to 56% on similar questions when memory of past correct solutions is combined with adaptive early stopping, though the benchmark is small and synthetic.

  7. Step-level Verifier-guided Hybrid Test-Time Scaling for Large Language Models

    cs.CL 2025-07 reject novelty 4.0 of 10

    A step-level verifier-guided hybrid of Best-of-N sampling, Monte Carlo tree search, and conditional self-refinement improves reasoning in small instruction-tuned LLMs, claiming up to 28.6-point gains.

  8. PREMISE: Scalable and Strategic Prompt Optimization for Efficient Mathematical Reasoning in Large Models

    cs.CL 2025-06 reject novelty 4.0 of 10

    The paper reports that a concise optimized prompt reduces reasoning tokens by up to 87.5% while roughly preserving accuracy on GSM8K, SVAMP, and MATH-500.

Pith tools