arxivcs.CLcs.AI2026-07-11
Structured Thoughts For Improved Reasoning And Context Pruning
Zain Sarwar, Supriyo Chakraborty, Berkcan Kapusuzoglu, Chia-Hsuan Lee, Anirban Das, Stephen Rawls, et al.
Large language models (LLMs) excel at generating long chains of thought, but long reasoning traces are often verbose and memory-inefficient. In this work, we introduce Structured Thoughts, a framework that organizes reasoning into alternating <try> and <outcome> blocks: <try> cap…