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ConceptOverthinking / 过长推理

Overthinking

A phenomenon in which reasoning models generate unnecessarily long chain-of-thought sequences for simple tasks, resulting in wasted tokens and increased latency without a corresponding improvement in answer accuracy.

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Sep 5

Models may fall into the trap of overthinking, as longer reasoning time does not always lead to better results.

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