CoRD (LLM reasoning / chain-of-thought): current frontier — recent, not yet superseded in the knowledge base. 0 paper(s) critique it, 0 beat it on benchmarks — not ranked as a superseded baseline. Sub-problem: cluster led by MCTS. Newer alternatives in the same sub-problem include rePIRL, CoRD.

LLM reasoning / chain-of-thought

CoRD

Distilling Long-CoT Reasoning through Collaborative Step-wise Multi-Teacher Decoding

On the frontierfirst seen May 4, 2026

Current frontier — recent, not yet superseded in the knowledge base

0 papers critique it · 0 beat it on benchmarks

What to use instead

Recent methods in the same sub-problem, not yet superseded in the knowledge base — arXiv benchmark leaders, not vetted production recommendations.

rePIRLrePIRL: Learn PRM with Inverse RL for LLM Reasoning
May 19, 2026
CoRDDistilling Long-CoT Reasoning through Collaborative Step-wise Multi-Teacher Decoding
May 4, 2026