Reasoning budget in LRMs functions as a generation ceiling rather than a real-time dial, leaving cognitive cost alignment with humans invariant across effort levels and supporting a training-time compiled account.
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Effort as Ceiling, Not Dial: Reasoning Budget Does Not Modulate Cognitive Cost Alignment Between Humans and Large Reasoning Models
Reasoning budget in LRMs functions as a generation ceiling rather than a real-time dial, leaving cognitive cost alignment with humans invariant across effort levels and supporting a training-time compiled account.