Universe of Thoughts: A Computational Framework for Creative Reasoning in Large Language Models

arXiv:2511.20471 · cs.AI · Submitted 2025-11-25 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2025-11-25

Updated: 2026-10-06

Terminology

• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Prompting — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes

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