Verifiers and Thinking Traces in Reasoning Models

rao2z · x · 2026-07-17

The author shared their keynote recording from the **ICML 2026 LM4Plan workshop**, focusing on the role of **verifiers** and **thinking traces** in reasoning models. The main message is that evaluating reasoning models requires looking beyond the final answer to understand intermediate reasoning steps, verification mechanisms, and their impact on planning and reasoning quality.

Related event: ICML 2026 Keynote on Verifiers and Thinking Traces in Reasoning Models(2 posts)→

Original post →

More from Research

Research channel →