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Attention Illuminates LLM Reasoning: The Preplan-and-Anchor Rhythm Enables Fine-Grained Policy Optimization research paper by Alibaba (Qwen), 2025

Alibaba (Qwen) · Reasoning · Oct 15, 2025 · 32 citations · 59 upvotes · unverified

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Attention mechanisms in LLMs are analyzed to reveal reasoning patterns, leading to novel RL strategies that improve performance by focusing on critical tokens.

By Yang Li, Zhichen Dong, Yuhan Sun and 9 more · arXiv 2510.13554 · PDF

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arXiv.org
Citations
32, 3 influential · Semantic Scholar
Upvotes
59 · Hugging Face
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CitationsNov 2, 2026Influential citations rose from 2 to 3.
CitationsNov 2, 2026Citations rose from 28 to 32.
CitationsOct 5, 2026Citations rose from 27 to 28.
UpvotesSep 25, 2026Hugging Face upvotes rose from 53 to 59.
CitationsSep 25, 2026A first count of 2 influential citations.
CitationsSep 25, 2026A first count of 27 citations.
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