Direct Pass@$k$ Optimization for Thought Pruning: Balancing Quality and Diversity in Test-Time Reasoning By Mahdi Salmani, Adel Javanmard, Devansh Gupta, Meisam Razaviyayn · ArXiv · AI/CL/LG · Oct 22, 2026 ArXiv · AI/CL/LG's note score 5 Categories: Research