@article{hyperbridgingexplorationandexploitationf, title = {HyPER: Bridging Exploration and Exploitation for Scalable LLM Reasoning with Hypothesis Path Expansion and Reduction}, author = {Shengxuan Qiu and Haochen Huang and Shuzhang Zhong and Pengfei Zuo and Meng Li}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2602.06527}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06527}, }