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CoT-Space: A Theoretical Framework for Internal Slow-Thinking via Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2509.04027v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Test-time scaling, primarily manifested through multi-step Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning via Reinforcement Learning (RL), has emerged as a pivotal paradigm for enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, a significant theoretical gap persists: traditional token-level analysis fails to capture the macroscopic dynamics of reasoning-level scaling. To address this, we introduce CoT-Space, a novel theoretical framework that recasts the reasoning process from a discrete token-prediction task to an optimi…

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