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The Danger of Overthinking: Examining the Reasoning-Action Dilemma in Agentic Tasks

Aditya Desai, Alejandro Cuadron, Ana Klimovic, Dacheng Li, Graham Neubig, Huanzhi Mao, Ion Stoica, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Luis Gaspar Schroeder, Nicholas Thumiger, Shu Liu, Siyuan Zhuang, Tian Xia, Wenjie Ma, Xingyao Wang, Yichuan Wang

arxiv:2502.08235 v1 · 2025-02-12 · cs.AI

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13d82551207688ad66b47e5c131247c1a14c3fe058bc9a7aac01b761ec2faaa0

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arxiv: 2502.08235 · arxiv_version: 2502.08235v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.08235 · pith_short_12: CPMCKUJAO2EK · pith_short_16: CPMCKUJAO2EK2ZVU · pith_short_8: CPMCKUJA

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