Constructing Pareto Frontiers of Optimal Reasoning Termination Methods for Overthinking in Reasoning Models
arXiv:2610.13570v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning models can benefit from test-time scaling, but continued reasoning may become ineffective or harmful, a phenomenon termed overthinking. Evaluations against full thinking compare accuracy and token usage but lack references for overthinking severity and strategies' theoretical mitigation potential. To characterize overthinking at the model-task level, we first introduce Step-wise Truncation Probing (STP), repeatedly generating answers fro…