LLM reasoning / chain-of-thought

MoT (Merge of Thought)

Superseded baseline#468 of 772 most-superseded

Cited as a baseline — critiqued by newer work, not yet beaten on a benchmark here

1 papers critique it · 0 beat it on benchmarks

What papers say

Verbatim critique sentences, each from a paper that cites MoT (Merge of Thought) as a baseline.

static parameter addition or averaging (e.g., Shen2025MergeofThoughtD) often induces conflicts within the parameter space in distillation tasks. This leads to destructive interference or ``cancellation effects'' among diverse supervision signals, resulting in suboptimal performance.
"The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts": A Compatibility-Aware Multi-Teacher CoT Distillation Framework

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Recent methods in the same sub-problem, not yet superseded in the knowledge base — arXiv benchmark leaders, not vetted production recommendations.