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RAG over Thinking Traces Can Improve Reasoning Tasks

Matei Zaharia, Negar Arabzadeh, Sewon Min, Wenjie Ma

Retrieving thinking traces from problem-solving attempts improves reasoning performance on math and code benchmarks.

arxiv:2605.03344 v2 · 2026-05-05 · cs.IR · cs.AI · cs.CL

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Using these traces as a corpus, a simple retrieve-then-generate pipeline consistently improves reasoning performance across strong models and benchmarks such as AIME 2025--2026, LiveCodeBench, and GPQA-Diamond, outperforming both non-RAG baselines and retrieval over standard web corpora.

C2weakest assumption

That thinking traces generated during problem-solving attempts contain generalizable, high-quality reasoning signals that transfer usefully to new problems and different models without introducing systematic errors or biases from the trace-generation process itself.

C3one line summary

RAG over structured thinking traces boosts LLM reasoning on AIME, LiveCodeBench, and GPQA, with relative gains up to 56% and little added cost.

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arxiv: 2605.03344 · arxiv_version: 2605.03344v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.03344 · pith_short_12: BNMDKKCE6ACD · pith_short_16: BNMDKKCE6ACDCGB2 · pith_short_8: BNMDKKCE

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