arxivcs.LGcs.CL2026-06-30
Fork-Think with Confidence
Zena Al-Khalili, Rafi Hakim, Dietrich Klakow, Ji-Ung Lee
Parallel thinking has enjoyed great success for boosting LLM performance on reasoning tasks without the need for any re-training. However, existing methods follow a think-first-then-decide paradigm, i.e., they first sample multiple reasoning paths, which inevitably leads to overg…