arxivcs.CLcs.AI2026-07-21
DAIS: Dependency-Aware Intermediate QA Supervision for Complex Reasoning
Yu Wang, Ming Fan, Xicheng Zhang, Zhiyong Li, Zhihu Wang, Caiyue Xu, et al.
Chain-of-thought (CoT) supervision exposes intermediate rationales, but flat rationale targets usually optimize a single reasoning sequence and provide limited supervision on how local conclusions should support later decisions. We introduce Dependency-Aware Intermediate QA Super…