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Reasoning Model
A language model trained to work through steps before giving its final answer.
Definition
A reasoning model is a language model trained to produce extended step-by-step working before its final answer, which improves results on math, coding, and logic. It typically spends more compute at inference time to generate this internal reasoning, a tradeoff known as test-time compute. The extra steps trade speed and cost for accuracy on hard problems.