mlsanityData to 14 Oct 2026

Guidance is All You Need: Temperature-Guided Reasoning in Large Language Models

arXiv 2412.06822 ↗First posted 5 Dec 2024cs.CL cs.AI cs.LGcited by 0

On the map: LLM reasoning → Test-time compute and efficient thinking

Abstract (arXiv)

We present Quasar-1, a novel architecture that introduces temperature-guided reasoning to large language models through the Token Temperature Mechanism (TTM) and Guided Sequence of Thought (GSoT). Our approach leverages the concept of hot and cold tokens, where hot tokens are prioritized for their contextual relevance, while cold tokens provide supplementary information. This dynamic modulation of token importance enables the model to achieve superior logical reasoning capabilities compared to traditional chain-of-thought approaches. Through rigorous mathematical analysis, we prove that our temperature-guided attention mechanism converges to optimal reasoning paths with exponential guarantees. Empirical results show significant improvements in reasoning accuracy and computational efficiency across a wide range of tasks, making advanced AI reasoning accessible to a broader range of applications.

Key facts. No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026). Placed in Test-time compute and efficient thinking, one of 17 directions in LLM reasoning. Builds on 2 of its 12 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 5 Dec 2024.

Builds on

2 of 12 references.

References · 2

  1. 2018BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understandingcited by 40,399
  2. 2014Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimizationcited by 37,240

Built on by

Not cited yet.

Similar, not cited

Close in wording, no citation either way

  1. 2026Temperature-Dependent Performance of Prompting Strategies in Extended Reasoning Large Language Models
  2. 2025Making Small Language Models Efficient Reasoners: Intervention, Supervision, Reinforcement
  3. 2025On the Role of Temperature Sampling in Test-Time Scaling
  4. 2025Exploring Multi-Temperature Strategies for Token- and Rollout-Level Control in RLVR
  5. 2025Efficient Inference for Large Reasoning Models: A Survey
  6. 2024T2 of Thoughts: Temperature Tree Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models
  7. 2025A Survey of Efficient Reasoning for Large Reasoning Models: Language, Multimodality, and Beyond
  8. 2025Certainty-Guided Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Dynamic Thinking Budget Approach