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Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability

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Probability-Consistent Preference Optimization for Enhanced LLM Reasoning cites this paper.

Probability-Consistent Preference Optimization for Enhanced LLM Reasoning Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability

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Reinforcing Video Reasoning with Focused Thinking cites this paper.

Reinforcing Video Reasoning with Focused Thinking Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability

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Beyond the 80/20 Rule: High-Entropy Minority Tokens Drive Effective Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning cites this paper.

Beyond the 80/20 Rule: High-Entropy Minority Tokens Drive Effective Reinforcement Learning for LLM Reasoning Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability

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Demystifying Reasoning Dynamics with Mutual Information: Thinking Tokens are Information Peaks in LLM Reasoning cites this paper.

Demystifying Reasoning Dynamics with Mutual Information: Thinking Tokens are Information Peaks in LLM Reasoning Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability

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RAST: Reasoning Activation in LLMs via Small-model Transfer cites this paper.

RAST: Reasoning Activation in LLMs via Small-model Transfer Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability

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Attention Illuminates LLM Reasoning: The Preplan-and-Anchor Rhythm Enables Fine-Grained Policy Optimization cites this paper.

Attention Illuminates LLM Reasoning: The Preplan-and-Anchor Rhythm Enables Fine-Grained Policy Optimization Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability

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Embarrassingly Simple Self-Distillation Improves Code Generation cites this paper.

Embarrassingly Simple Self-Distillation Improves Code Generation Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability

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AtManRL: Towards Faithful Reasoning via Differentiable Attention Saliency cites this paper.

AtManRL: Towards Faithful Reasoning via Differentiable Attention Saliency Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability

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Select to Think: Unlocking SLM Potential with Local Sufficiency cites this paper.

Select to Think: Unlocking SLM Potential with Local Sufficiency Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability

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Select to Think: Unlocking SLM Potential with Local Sufficiency cites this paper.

Select to Think: Unlocking SLM Potential with Local Sufficiency Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability

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When Are Experts Misrouted? Counterfactual Routing Analysis in Mixture-of-Experts Language Models cites this paper.

When Are Experts Misrouted? Counterfactual Routing Analysis in Mixture-of-Experts Language Models Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability

Reference 38

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Your Language Model is Its Own Critic: Reinforcement Learning with Value Estimation from Actor's Internal States cites this paper.

Your Language Model is Its Own Critic: Reinforcement Learning with Value Estimation from Actor's Internal States Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability

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Your Language Model is Its Own Critic: Reinforcement Learning with Value Estimation from Actor's Internal States cites this paper.

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HTPO: Towards Exploration-Exploitation Balanced Policy Optimization via Hierarchical Token-level Objective Control cites this paper.

HTPO: Towards Exploration-Exploitation Balanced Policy Optimization via Hierarchical Token-level Objective Control Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability

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Stateful Reasoning via Insight Replay cites this paper.

Stateful Reasoning via Insight Replay Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability

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Stateful Reasoning via Insight Replay cites this paper.

Stateful Reasoning via Insight Replay Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability

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Token-weighted Direct Preference Optimization with Attention cites this paper.

Token-weighted Direct Preference Optimization with Attention Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability

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Token-weighted Direct Preference Optimization with Attention cites this paper.

Token-weighted Direct Preference Optimization with Attention Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability

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Smaller Models are Natural Explorers for Policy-Level Diversity in GRPO cites this paper.

Smaller Models are Natural Explorers for Policy-Level Diversity in GRPO Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability

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Thinking Economically: A Hierarchical Framework for Adaptive-Complexity Reasoning in LLMs cites this paper.

Thinking Economically: A Hierarchical Framework for Adaptive-Complexity Reasoning in LLMs Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability

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The Tell-Tale Norm: $\ell_2$ Magnitude as a Signal for Reasoning Dynamics in Large Language Models cites this paper.

The Tell-Tale Norm: $\ell_2$ Magnitude as a Signal for Reasoning Dynamics in Large Language Models Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability

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Sample Where You Struggle: Sharpening Base Model Reasoning via Entropy-Guided Power Sampling cites this paper.

Sample Where You Struggle: Sharpening Base Model Reasoning via Entropy-Guided Power Sampling Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability

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The Periodic Table of LLM Reasoning: A Structured Survey of Reasoning Paradigms, Methods, and Failure Modes cites this paper.

The Periodic Table of LLM Reasoning: A Structured Survey of Reasoning Paradigms, Methods, and Failure Modes Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability

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Beyond Fully Random Masking: Attention-Guided Denoising and Optimization for Diffusion Language Models cites this paper.

Beyond Fully Random Masking: Attention-Guided Denoising and Optimization for Diffusion Language Models Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability

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Beyond Entropy: Learning from Token-Level Distributional Deviations for LLM Reasoning cites this paper.

Beyond Entropy: Learning from Token-Level Distributional Deviations for LLM Reasoning Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability

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Rethinking On-Policy Self-Distillation for Thinking Models cites this paper.

Rethinking On-Policy Self-Distillation for Thinking Models Critical Tokens Matter: Token-Level Contrastive Estimation Enhances LLM's Reasoning Capability

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