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[[File:Three-stage large language model training workflow.svg|500px200px|thumb|A diagram of the three-stage training workflow used to train LLMs. Training a reasoning model is an optional fourth step of fine-tuning on top of the three-step "assistant model" recipe.]]

'''Reasoning language models''' ('''RLMs''') are [[large language model]]s that are trained further to solve tasks that take several steps of [[reasoning]].<ref>{{cite arXiv |last1=Besta |first1=Maciej |last2=Barth |first2=Julia |last3=Schreiber |first3=Eric |last4=Kubicek |first4=Ales |last5=Catarino |first5=Afonso |last6=Gerstenberger |first6=Robert |last7=Nyczyk |first7=Piotr |last8=Iff |first8=Patrick |last9=Li |first9=Yueling |title=Reasoning Language Models: A Blueprint |date=2025-01-23 |arxiv=2501.11223 |class=cs.CL}}</ref> They tend to do better on logic, math, and programming tasks than standard LLMs, can [[Backtracking|revisit and revise]] earlier steps, and make use of extra computation while answering as another way to [[Neural scaling law|scale performance]], alongside the number of training examples, parameters, and training compute.<ref name=":8">{{cite web |title=Learning to reason with LLMs |url=https://openai.com/index/learning-to-reason-with-llms/ |website=OpenAI |date=2024-09-12 |access-date=2025-07-26}}</ref>