From "Aha Moments" to Controllable Thinking: Toward Meta-Cognitive Reasoning in LRMs via Decoupled Reasoning and Control (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Large Reasoning Models exhibit step-by-step reasoning, reflection, and backtracking, but these behaviors are often unregulated, leading to overthinking. |
| Approach: | They propose a meta-cognitive reasoning framework that decouples reasoning from control to enable independent optimization of control strategies. |
| Outcome: | Experiments show that the proposed model improves efficiency and accuracy across reasoning benchmarks. |
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