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2026-06-22
aclanthology.org
large-language-models
A Few Bad Apples Spoil the Bunch: Preventing Global Entropy Collapse Driven by a Small Set of Tokens in LLM Reasoning
Researchers at ACL 2026 found that entropy collapse in LLM reasoning, which undermines test-time scaling, is driven by premature overconfidence at a small set of critical tokens. They proposed SCOPE, โฆ