@article{conmaxconfidencemaximizingcompressionfor, title = {ConMax: Confidence-Maximizing Compression for Efficient Chain-of-Thought Reasoning}, author = {Minda Hu and Zexuan Qiu and Zenan Xu and Kun Li and Bo Zhou and Irwin King}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2601.04973}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04973}, }