Read the full paper here.Title: The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem ComplexityAuthors: Parshin Shojaee, Iman Mirzadeh, Keivan Alizadeh, Maxwell Horton, Samy Bengio, and Mehrdad FarajtabarAffiliation: AppleThis paper systematically investigates the reasoning capabilities and limitations of Large Reasoning Models (LRMs)—language models that generate a "thinking" process before giving an answer.