A New Dimension of Reasoning: When to Commit, Not What to Generate
furongh · x · 2026-07-06
The current LLM reasoning surge focuses on longer CoTs, search, verifiers, RL, and test-time compute. However, SAS (Self-Aware Scheduler) points to another dimension: scheduling thoughts. For diffusion language models, reasoning might depend less on "what to generate" and more on "when to commit."
Related event: ICML 2026 Paper SAS: Optimizing Thought Scheduling in Diffusion LMs(15 posts)→
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