Maxwell Horton

Researcher, Apple

1 paper at NeurIPS 2025

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Poster Session 1

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 · 11:00 AM → 2:00 PM

The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity

#1914 · Parshin Shojaee, Seyed Iman Mirzadeh, Keivan Alizadeh, Maxwell Horton, Samy Bengio, Mehrdad Farajtabar

We examine how problem complexity affects reasoning models' behavior in controlled test settings, revealing key strengths and limitations of their reasoning capabilities.