Ladders of Thought: A Self-Evolving Curriculum of Progressively Simplified Reasoning Traces
arXiv:2609.25643v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) excel at reasoning when scaled to hundreds of billions of parameters, but small- and mid-scale models remain brittle reasoners even with knowledge distillation (KD). We present Ladders-of-Thought (LoT), a framework that…