MarODE, a Markovian ODE framework for scoring LLM reasoning traces, accepted at TMLR
Tanmoy_Chak · x · 2026-10-08
A TMLR-accepted paper from lcs2lab (IIIT Hyderabad) introduces MarODE, an offline framework that scores the quality of LLM reasoning traces. It models reasoning progression as a Markov process and characterizes trace dynamics via ordinary differential equations, evaluated against human-centric perturbations and human judgments. In large-scale tests it beats existing baselines by over 250% under Somers' D correlation, arguing for theory-driven evaluation as reasoning traces become central to LLM systems.
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