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Learning Global Hypothesis Space for Enhancing Synergistic Reasoning Chain

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Chain-of-Thought (CoT) has been shown to significantly improve the reasoning accuracy of large language models (LLMs) on complex tasks. However, due to the autoregressive, step-by-step generation paradigm, existing CoT methods suffer from two fundamental limitations. First, the reasoning process is highly sensitive to early decisions: once an initial error is introduced, it tends to propagate and amplify through subsequent steps, while the lack of a global coordination and revision mechanism makes such errors difficult to correct, ultimately leading to distorted reasoning chains. Second, current CoT approaches lack structured analysis techniques for filtering redundant reasoning and extracting key reasoning features, resulting in unstable reasoning processes and limited interpretability. To address these issues, we propose GHS-TDA. GHS-TDA first constructs a semantically enriched global hypothesis graph to aggregate, align, and coordinate multiple candidate reasoning paths, thereby providing alternative global correction routes when local reasoning fails. It then applies topological data analysis based on persistent homology to capture stable multi-scale structures, remove redundancy and inconsistencies, and extract a more reliable reasoning skeleton. By jointly leveraging reasoning diversity and topological stability, GHS-TDA achieves self-adaptive convergence, produces high-confidence and interpretable reasoning paths, and consistently outperforms strong baselines in terms of both accuracy and robustness across multiple reasoning benchmarks.

Jiaquan Zhang, Chaoning Zhang, Shuxu Chen, Xudong Wang, Zhenzhen Huang, Pengcheng Zheng, Shuai Yuan, Sheng Zheng, Qigan Sun, Jie Zou, Lik-Hang Lee, Yang Yang• 2026

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TaskDatasetResultRank
Mathematical ReasoningGSM8K
Accuracy97.1
1362
Mathematical ReasoningMATH
Accuracy90
882
ReasoningBBH
Accuracy95.4
672
Multi-hop Question AnsweringHotpotQA--
294
Mathematical ReasoningGSM8K
Math Score91.39
197
Arithmetic ReasoningGSM8K
Accuracy95.2
173
Long-context ReasoningLongBench
Score73.8
62
Mathematical ReasoningOlympiadBench
Accuracy19
57
General Knowledge ReasoningMMLU CF
Accuracy75.9
55
Mathematical ReasoningMATH
Score77.19
50
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