Blind Spot Navigation in LLM Reasoning with Thought Space Explorer

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.24155v2
• Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 22:53:31 GMT
• Title: Blind Spot Navigation in LLM Reasoning with Thought Space Explorer
• Authors: Jinghan Zhang, Fengran Mo, Xiting Wang, Kunpeng Liu,
• Abstract summary: We design the Thought Space Explorer (TSE) to expand and optimize thought structures to guide large language models (LLMs) to explore their blind spots of thinking. By generating new reasoning steps and branches based on the original thought structure with various designed strategies, TSE broadens the thought space and alleviates the impact of blind spots for LLM reasoning.
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• Abstract: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated their potential in handling complex reasoning tasks, which are usually achieved by constructing a thought chain to guide the model to solve the problem with multi-step thinking. However, existing methods often remain confined to previously explored solution spaces and thus overlook the critical blind spot within LLMs' cognitive range. To address these issues, we design the Thought Space Explorer (TSE), a novel framework to expand and optimize thought structures to guide LLMs to explore their blind spots of thinking. By generating new reasoning steps and branches based on the original thought structure with various designed strategies, TSE broadens the thought space and alleviates the impact of blind spots for LLM reasoning. Experimental results on multiple levels of reasoning tasks demonstrate the efficacy of TSE. We also conduct extensive analysis to understand how structured and expansive thought can contribute to unleashing the potential of LLM reasoning capabilities.

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