Reasoning & Test-Time Compute · 2025

LIMO: Less is More for Reasoning

Yixin Ye, Pengfei Liu

Demonstrates that ~800 well-chosen demonstrations elicit competition-level math reasoning, arguing reasoning is latent in pretraining and unlocked by minimal cognitive templates rather than large post-training data.

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Demonstrates that ~800 well-chosen demonstrations elicit competition-level math reasoning, arguing reasoning is latent in pretraining and unlocked by minimal cognitive templates rather than large post-training data.

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P-639
Record created
2026-07-13
Last reviewed
2026-07-14
Record version
2

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