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Reasoning
3 posts tagged Reasoning.
DeepSeek-R1: What Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards Actually Does
DeepSeek-R1 showed that a model can learn to reason—backtrack, self-correct, think for longer on harder problems—with no human-labeled reasoning traces. Just a reward signal that says 'right or wrong.' Here's what that means in practice.
ReAct: What the Reasoning + Acting Paper Actually Says
Every agent framework you've used is built on ReAct's thought/action/observation loop. The paper is more specific — and more fragile — than the abstractions suggest.
Tree of Thoughts: What the Paper Actually Says About LLM Search
Chain-of-thought is one path through a reasoning problem. Tree of Thoughts is a search over many paths. The NeurIPS 2023 paper shows 74% vs 4% on certain benchmarks. The production story is harder.