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What Makes a Good Reasoning Chain? Uncovering Structural Patterns in Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

As of 20 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 20 of 20 outbound references and 4 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2505.22148.

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What Makes a Good Reasoning Chain? Uncovering Structural Patterns in Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Unresolved cited work

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What Makes a Good Reasoning Chain? Uncovering Structural Patterns in Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Unresolved cited work

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This paper cites Kimi k1.5: Scaling Reinforcement Learning with LLMs.

What Makes a Good Reasoning Chain? Uncovering Structural Patterns in Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Kimi k1.5: Scaling Reinforcement Learning with LLMs

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This paper cites Do not merge steps.

What Makes a Good Reasoning Chain? Uncovering Structural Patterns in Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Do not merge steps

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This paper cites LIMO: Less is More for Reasoning.

What Makes a Good Reasoning Chain? Uncovering Structural Patterns in Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning LIMO: Less is More for Reasoning

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This paper cites Output format: <reasoning_process> Step 1.

What Makes a Good Reasoning Chain? Uncovering Structural Patterns in Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Output format: <reasoning_process> Step 1

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This paper cites A correct step should be able to push the reasoning logic forward and have no errors in itself.

What Makes a Good Reasoning Chain? Uncovering Structural Patterns in Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning A correct step should be able to push the reasoning logic forward and have no errors in itself

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What Makes a Good Reasoning Chain? Uncovering Structural Patterns in Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Text1":

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This paper cites The model comprises two GATv2 layers, each with a hidden size of 64.

What Makes a Good Reasoning Chain? Uncovering Structural Patterns in Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning The model comprises two GATv2 layers, each with a hidden size of 64

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What Makes a Good Reasoning Chain? Uncovering Structural Patterns in Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning DeepSeek-V3 Technical Report

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What Makes a Good Reasoning Chain? Uncovering Structural Patterns in Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Thoughts Are All Over the Place: On the Underthinking of o1-Like LLMs

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What Makes a Good Reasoning Chain? Uncovering Structural Patterns in Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning Can Large Language Models Detect Errors in Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning?

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Pith citing papers

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Towards Concise and Adaptive Thinking in Large Reasoning Models: A Survey cites this paper.

Towards Concise and Adaptive Thinking in Large Reasoning Models: A Survey What Makes a Good Reasoning Chain? Uncovering Structural Patterns in Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

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Which Reasoning Trajectories Teach Students to Reason Better? A Simple Metric of Informative Alignment cites this paper.

Which Reasoning Trajectories Teach Students to Reason Better? A Simple Metric of Informative Alignment What Makes a Good Reasoning Chain? Uncovering Structural Patterns in Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

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Which Reasoning Trajectories Teach Students to Reason Better? A Simple Metric of Informative Alignment cites this paper.

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STOP: Structured On-Policy Pruning of Long-Form Reasoning in Low-Data Regimes cites this paper.

STOP: Structured On-Policy Pruning of Long-Form Reasoning in Low-Data Regimes What Makes a Good Reasoning Chain? Uncovering Structural Patterns in Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

Reference 32

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