Preprint
Jul 2026
OS-Pruner: Pruning Chains-of-Thought of Reasoning Models via Optimal Stopping
OS-Pruner is a lightweight plug-in framework that formulates chain-of-thought pruning as an optimal stopping problem that achieves 20-60\% reduction in generation length with minimal accuracy sacrifice on diverse reasoning benchmarks and base models.
Mohammed Ehab, Aymane El Gadarri, Vivek F. Farias et al.
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