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LLM Reasoning Research

A curated, annotated research collection on reasoning gaps in large language models.

This repository tracks active research on the cognitive limitations of large language models — the places where current LLMs struggle, why those gaps matter, and what's being done about them.

It is maintained by the team at Krellix as a public resource for developers, researchers, and product teams building with LLMs.

Why this exists

Large language models have advanced rapidly, but several core reasoning capabilities remain unsolved or actively contested. These gaps matter — for builders deciding what to ship, for researchers deciding what to work on, and for users trying to understand what LLMs can and cannot reliably do.

Most of the literature is scattered across arXiv, conference proceedings, and lab blog posts. This repo is an attempt to organize the most important work in one place, with honest annotations about what each paper contributes and what it leaves open.

This is curation, not original research. We are practitioners building an AI product. We read this work to understand the landscape we're operating in. This collection is a byproduct of that work, shared publicly because we think it's useful.

What's covered

Currently in the collection

Temporal Reasoning — How LLMs handle time, sequence, duration, and temporal context. Why models that can write a sonnet often fail at "what happened before what."

Causal Reasoning — The gap between correlation and causation in LLM outputs. Why current models struggle with cause-and-effect reasoning, and what the research community is doing about it.

Coming soon

We're expanding this collection over time. Topics on the roadmap:

Mathematical and logical reasoning

Planning and multi-step problem solving

Theory of mind and social reasoning

World models and physical reasoning

Counterfactual reasoning

Long-horizon coherence

If you'd like to suggest a topic or contribute papers to existing sections, see CONTRIBUTING.md.

How this collection is organized

Each topic folder contains:

README.md — An accessible introduction to the reasoning gap, why it matters, and where the research currently stands

foundational-papers.md — The core papers that defined the problem

recent-research.md — Recent work (last ~24 months)

benchmarks-and-datasets.md — How researchers measure progress on the problem

practical-implications.md — What this means for people building with LLMs

Every paper entry follows a consistent format:

### [Paper Title]<br>**Authors** · **Year** · **Venue**<br>Links · TL;DR · Why it matters · Key insight · Limitations

The goal is for each entry to be useful in 60 seconds, with enough signal to decide whether to read the full paper.

How to use this repo

If you're a developer building with LLMs — Start with the practical-implications.md file in any topic. It translates research into things you can act on.

If you're a researcher — The foundational-papers.md and recent-research.md files give you a structured reading path. The benchmarks file points to where evaluation is happening.

If you're a product team — Read the topic READMEs first. They explain the gaps in language that doesn't require an ML background.

Contributing

This repo improves with community input. We welcome:

Suggestions for papers we've missed

Corrections to existing annotations

New topic proposals (see roadmap above)

Better organization of existing...

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