research digesten March 31, 2026 1 min read
The Marginal Cost of Thought: Optimality and Adaptation in Large Reasoning Models
By kualia research desk
Introduction
The emergence of large reasoning models has validated a fundamental bet in modern artificial intelligence: namely, that inference time compute represents a lever
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