--- title: "Who cites LightThinker: Thinking Step-by-Step Compression" description: "45 papers of the Elamur Research library cite «LightThinker: Thinking Step-by-Step Compression», found in their bibliographies; the most cited first." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2025-lightthinker-thinking-step-step-compression/cited-by/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2025-lightthinker-thinking-step-step-compression/cited-by/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/) / [LightThinker: Thinking Step-by-Step Compression](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2025-lightthinker-thinking-step-step-compression/) / cited by # Who cites «LightThinker: Thinking Step-by-Step Compression» 45 papers of our library cite it (of the 149,439 whose bibliographies we read) · 18 with a page here, the most cited first · [← back to «LightThinker: Thinking Step-by-Step Compression»](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2025-lightthinker-thinking-step-step-compression/) 1. **[Towards Reasoning Era: A Survey of Long Chain-of-Thought for Reasoning Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2025-towards-reasoning-era-survey-long/) [Science China Information Sciences](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/science-china-information-sciences/)**Qiguang Chen, Libo Qin, Jinhao Liu, et al.*2025 · 176 citations* 2. [**Stop Overthinking: A Survey on Efficient Reasoning for Large Language Models arXiv:2503.16419**Yang Sui, Yu-Neng Chuang, Guanchu Wang, et al.*2025 · 157 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sui-2025-stop-overthinking-survey-efficient-reasoning/) 3. [**A Survey of Efficient Reasoning for Large Reasoning Models: Language, Multimodality, and Beyond arXiv:2503.21614**Xiaoye Qu, Yafu Li, Zhao-Chen Su, et al.*2025 · 55 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qu-2025-survey-efficient-reasoning-large-reasoning/) 4. [**Efficient Reasoning Models: A Survey arXiv:2504.10903**Sicheng Feng, Gongfan Fang, Xinyin Ma, et al.*2025 · 37 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/feng-2025-efficient-reasoning-models-survey/) 5. [**InftyThink: Breaking the Length Limits of Long-Context Reasoning in Large Language Models arXiv:2503.06692**Yuchen Yan, Yongliang Shen, Yang Liu, et al.*2025 · 29 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yan-2025-inftythink-breaking-length-limits-long/) 6. **[ConCISE: Confidence-guided Compression in Step-by-step Efficient Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qiao-2025-concise-confidence-guided-compression-step/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Ziqing Qiao, Yongheng Deng, Jiali Zeng, et al.*2025 · 19 citations* 7. [**Towards Agentic RAG with Deep Reasoning: A Survey of RAG-Reasoning Systems in LLMs arXiv:2507.09477**Yangning Li, Weizhi Zhang, Yuyao Yang, et al.*2025 · 17 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2025-towards-agentic-rag-deep-reasoning/) 8. [**Harnessing the Reasoning Economy: A Survey of Efficient Reasoning for Large Language Models arXiv:2503.24377**Rui Wang, Hongru Wang, Boyang Xue, et al.*2025 · 16 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2025-harnessing-reasoning-economy-survey-efficient/) 9. **[FoE: Forest of Errors Makes the First Solution the Best in Large Reasoning Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jiang-2026-foe-forest-errors-makes-first/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Kehan Jiang, Haonan Dong, Zhaolu Kang, et al.*2026 · 15 citations* 10. [**A Survey on Latent Reasoning arXiv:2507.06203**Rui-Jie Zhu, Tianhao Peng, Tianhao Cheng, et al.*2025 · 15 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhu-2025-survey-latent-reasoning/) 11. **[NeuReasoner: Towards Explainable, Controllable, and Unified Reasoning via Mixture-of-Neurons](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dong-2026-neureasoner-explainable-controllable-unified-reasoning/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Haonan Dong, Kehan Jiang, Haoran Ye, et al.*2026 · 13 citations* 12. [**Implicit Reasoning in Large Language Models: A Comprehensive Survey arXiv:2509.02350**Jindong Li, Yali Fu, Li Fan, et al.*2025 · 10 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2025-implicit-reasoning-large-language-models/) 13. **[LazyEviction: Lagged KV Eviction with Attention Pattern Observation for Efficient Long Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-lazyeviction-lagged-kv-eviction-attention/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Haoyue Zhang, Hualei Zhang, Xiaosong Ma, et al.*2026 · 8 citations* 14. **[Efficient Reasoning for LLMs through Speculative Chain-of-Thought](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-efficient-reasoning-llms-through-speculative/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Jikai Wang, Juntao Li, Jianye Hou, et al.*2026 · 6 citations* 15. **[Mid-Think: Training-Free Intermediate-Budget Reasoning via Token-Level Triggers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2026-mid-think-training-free-intermediate/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Van Yang, Shouren Wang, Debargha Ganguly, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* 16. **[Not All Tokens Matter: Towards Efficient LLM Reasoning via Token Significance in Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2026-not-all-tokens-matter-efficient/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Hanbing Liu, Lang Cao, Yuanyi Ren, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* 17. **[Render-of-Thought: Rendering Textual Chain-of-Thought as Images for Visual Latent Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-render-thought-rendering-textual-chain/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Yifan Wang, Shiyu Li, Peiming Li, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* 18. **[Pru-CoT: Towards Efficient Reasoning Distillation via Pruning Chain-of-Thought](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2026-pru-cot-efficient-reasoning-distillation/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Han Liu, Shuotian Ma, Hui Li, et al.*2026* 27 more papers of our library cite it; they have no page here yet. - [← back to](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2025-lightthinker-thinking-step-step-compression/) — LightThinker: Thinking Step-by-Step Compression