arxivcs.CLcs.AI2026-07-01
CAT: Confidence-Adaptive Thinking for Efficient Reasoning of Large Reasoning Models
Qizhi Jiang, Shuo Wang, Pei Ke, Yuhang Song, Ke Qin
Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have achieved remarkable success on complex tasks by leveraging long chain-of-thought (CoT) trajectories, yet they frequently exhibit overthinking on simple queries, resulting in significant token overhead and reduced inference efficiency. However, e…