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PoTRE: Test-Time Reasoning inspired by Cognitive Heterogeneity

Researchers introduced PoTRE (Poly-Topological Reasoning Ensembles), a heterogeneous framework that decouples inference into four agents to improve complex reasoning in large language models. PoTRE achieves state-of-the-art accuracy of 49.92% on the Humanity's Last Exam (HLE) benchmark, surpassing the previous best official score. The framework uses a Task-Adaptive Aggregation Layer to dynamically reconcile perspectives from adversarial refinement, hierarchical planning, spectrum search, and direct chain agents.

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arXiv:2607.20268v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at many tasks, they frequently struggle with complex reasoning that requires long-horizon planning and iterative error correction. Furthermore, standard single-stream prompting proves brittle when models encounter novel abstractions or rigorous domain constraints. We introduce PoTRE (Poly-Topological Reasoning Ensembles), a heterogeneous framework that decouples inference into four agents: (1) Adversarial Refinement Agent, (2) Hierarchical strategic Planning Agent, (3) Spectrum Search Agent, and (4) Direct Chain Agent. A final Task-Adaptive Aggregation Layer dynamically reconciles these perspectives -- via final candidate selection, semantic synthesis, or neuro-symbolic verification -- to produce a robust global solution. We evaluate PoTRE on three frontier benchmarks: ARC-AGI-2, Humanity's Last Exam (HLE), and PRBench Finance. PoTRE achieves state-of-the-art accuracy of 49.92% on HLE, surpassing the previous best official score. We demonstrate that this architectural heterogeneity achieves improved reasoning performance using similar or fewer inference tokens compared to heavily scaled homogeneous baselines.

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