The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
AuthorsParshin Shojaee*†, Iman Mirzadeh*, Keivan Alizadeh, Maxwell Horton, Samy Bengio, Mehrdad FarajtabarRecent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models
(LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes before providing answers. While these models
demonstrate improved performance on reasoning benchmarks, their fundamental capabilities, scal-
ing properties, and limitations remain insufficiently understood. Current evaluations primarily fo-
cus on established...
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