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ARXIV:2603.12372 · EFFICIENT REASONING · SUBMITTED 02 APR · 02:30 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.12372EFFICIENT REASONINGSUBMITTED 02 APR · 02:30 UTCFRESHNESS STALEarXiv
ReBalance is a training-free framework that enhances reasoning efficiency in Large Reasoning Models by balancing overthinking and underthinking.
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ReBalance is a training-free framework that enhances reasoning efficiency in Large Reasoning Models by balancing overthinking and underthinking. These issues lead to inefficiencies and potential inaccuracies, limiting practical deployment in resource-constrained settings.
Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have shown remarkable reasoning capabilities, yet they often suffer from overthinking, expending redundant computational steps on simple problems, or underthinking, failing to explore sufficient reasoning paths despite inherent capabilities. These…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 8.0/10 on the public viability pass. Therefore, we propose ReBalance, a training-free framework that achieves efficient reasoning with balanced thinking.
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.12372ReBalance is a training-free framework that enhances reasoning efficiency in Large Reasoning Models by balancing overthinking and underthinking.
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Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have shown remarkable reasoning capabilities, yet they often suffer from overthinking, expending redundant computational steps on simple problems, or underthinking, failing to explore sufficient reasoning paths despite inherent capabilities. These issues lead to inefficiencies and potential inaccuracies, limiting practical deployment in resource-constrained settings. Existing methods to mitigate overthinking, such as suppressing reflective keywords or adjusting reasoning length, may inadvertently induce underthinking, compromising accuracy. Therefore, we propose ReBalance, a training-free framework that achieves efficient reasoning with balanced thinking. ReBalance leverages confidence as a continuous indicator of reasoning dynamics, identifying overthinking through high confidence variance and underthinking via consistent overconfidence. By aggregating hidden states from a small-scale dataset into reasoning mode prototypes, we compute a steering vector to guide LRMs' reasoning trajectories. A dynamic control function modulates this vector's strength and direction based on real-time confidence, pruning redundancy during overthinking, and promoting exploration during underthinking. Extensive experiments conducted on four models ranging from 0.5B to 32B, and across nine benchmarks in math reasoning, general question answering, and coding tasks demonstrate that ReBalance effectively reduces output redundancy while improving accuracy, offering a general, training-free, and plug-and-play strategy for efficient and robust LRM deployment. Code is available at https://github.com/yu-lin-li/ReBalance .
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ReBalance is a training-free framework that enhances reasoning efficiency in Large Reasoning Models by balancing overthinking and underthinking. These issues lead to inefficiencies and potential inaccuracies, limiting practical deployment in resource-constrained settings.
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Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) have shown remarkable reasoning capabilities, yet they often suffer from overthinking, expending redundant computational steps on simple problems, or underthinking, failing to explore sufficient reasoning paths despite inherent capabilities. These i...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 8.0/10 on the public viability pass. Therefore, we propose ReBalance, a training-free framework that achieves efficient reasoning with balanced thinking.
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Efficient Reasoning moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 8.0/10.
they often suffer from overthinking, expending redundant computational steps on simple problems
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Existing methods to mitigate overthinking, such as suppressing reflective keywords or adjusting reasoning length, may inadvertently induce underthinking, compromising accuracy
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we propose ReBalance, a training-free framework that achieves efficient reasoning with balanced thinking
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ReBalance leverages confidence as a continuous indicator of reasoning dynamics, identifying overthinking through high confidence variance and underthinking via consistent overconfidence
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ReBalance effectively reduces output redundancy while improving accuracy
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offering a general, training-free, and plug-and-play strategy for efficient and robust LRM deployment
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