Papers with TTC
ThinkBooster: A Unified Framework for Seamless Test-Time Scaling of LLM Reasoning (2026.acl-demo)
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Vladislav Smirnov, Quang-Chieu Nguyen, Sergey Senichev, Minh Ngoc Ta, Ekaterina Fadeeva, Artem Vazhentsev, Daria Galimzianova, Nikolai Rozanov, Viktor Mazanov, Jingwei Ni, Tianyi Wu, Igor Kiselev, Mrinmaya Sachan, Iryna Gurevych, Preslav Nakov, Timothy Baldwin, Artem Shelmanov
| Challenge: | Existing TTC scaling strategies and reasoning scorers are fragmented and evaluated under inconsistent protocols. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for seamless test-time compute scaling of large language model reasoning . they use a modular Python library to implement state-of-the-art scaling strategy and scorer families . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework evaluates performance and computational efficiency on mathematical and coding tasks. |
A Survey of Post-Training Scaling in Large Language Models (2025.acl-long)
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Hanyu Lai, Xiao Liu, Junjie Gao, Jiale Cheng, Zehan Qi, Yifan Xu, Shuntian Yao, Dan Zhang, Jinhua Du, Zhenyu Hou, Xin Lv, Minlie Huang, Yuxiao Dong, Jie Tang
| Challenge: | Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated proficiency in understanding and generating human natural languages. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework for scaling large language models using supervised fine-tuning, RLxF and test-time compute methodologies. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can be used to understand and generate human natural languages. |
FedReFT: Federated Representation Fine-Tuning with All-But-Me Aggregation (2026.findings-eacl)
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| Challenge: | Representation Fine-Tuning (ReFT) adapts large pre-trained models by updating only a small subset of parameters. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that uses sparse intervention layers to steer hidden representations directly to capture rich semantic information. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach outperforms PEFTs on commonsense reasoning, arithmetic reasoning, and GLUE benchmarks while maintaining a high parameter efficiency. |
The Utility and Interplay of Gazetteers and Entity Segmentation for Named Entity Recognition in English (2021.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Recent papers introduce methods to incorporate gazetteer features and entity segmentation techniques in neural named entity recognition models. |
| Approach: | They propose to integrate gazetteer features and entity segmentation techniques into neural named entity recognition models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed methods improve entity segmentation and not just entity typing. |
Zero-shot Topical Text Classification with LLMs - an Experimental Study (2023.findings-emnlp)
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Shai Gretz, Alon Halfon, Ilya Shnayderman, Orith Toledo-Ronen, Artem Spector, Lena Dankin, Yannis Katsis, Ofir Arviv, Yoav Katz, Noam Slonim, Liat Ein-Dor
| Challenge: | Topical text classification is an ancient, yet timely research area in natural language processing. |
| Approach: | They compare the zero-shot performance of a variety of LMs over a large dataset of 23 publicly available TTC datasets. |
| Outcome: | The proposed models outperform their counterparts over a large dataset and show that they perform better in a zero-shot scenario. |
PaCoRe: Learning to Scale Test-Time Compute with Parallel Coordinated Reasoning (2026.acl-long)
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Jingcheng Hu, Yinmin Zhang, Shijie Shang, Xiaobo Yang, Yue Peng, Zhewei Huang, Hebin Zhou, Xin Wu, Jie Cheng, Fanqi Wan, Xiangwen Kong, Chengyuan Yao, Kaiwen Yan, Ailin Huang, Hongyu Zhou, Qi Han, Zheng Ge, Xiangyu Zhang, Heung-Yeung Shum
| Challenge: | Parallel Coordinated Reasoning (PaCoRe) overcomes a central limitation of contemporary language models: their inability to scale test-time compute (TTC) far beyond sequential reasoning under a fixed context window. |
| Approach: | They propose a training-and-inference framework to overcome a central limitation of language models: their inability to scale test-time compute (TTC) under a fixed context window. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model scales to multi-million-token effective TTC without exceeding context limits. |
RTTC: Reward-Guided Collaborative Test-Time Compute (2025.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Reward-Guided Test-Time Compute (RTTC) is a powerful paradigm for large language models . indiscriminate application of TTC strategy incurs substantial computational overhead . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that adaptively selects the most effective TTC strategy for each query via a pretrained reward model. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework maximizes accuracy across diverse domains and tasks. |