Flow Reasoning Models: Turning Flows Into Efficient Recurrent Reasoners
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arXiv:2606.29150v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Structured reasoning requires making and revising interdependent decisions to reach a globally consistent solution. Existing architectures struggle with this: autoregressive models commit sequentially and cannot revise earlier decisions, while masked diffusion models often require careful decoding schemes to coordinate interdependent predictions. We introduce Flow Reasoning Models (FRMs), a novel framework for structured reasoning that adapts continuous flows over discrete structured outputs with a simple recurrent refinement mechanism. By se
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- arXiv:2606.29150v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Structured reasoning requires making and revising interdependent decisions to reach a globally consistent solution.
- Existing architectures struggle with this: autoregressive models commit sequentially and cannot revise earlier decisions, while masked diffusion models often require careful decoding schemes to coordinate interdependent predictions.
- We introduce Flow Reasoning Models (FRMs), a novel framework for structured reasoning that adapts continuous flows over discrete structured outputs with a simple recurrent refinement mechanism.
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