@article{thezerostepthinkinganempiricalstudyofmod, title = {The Zero-Step Thinking: An Empirical Study of Mode Selection as Harder Early Exit in Reasoning Models}, author = {Yuqiao Tan and Shizhu He and Kang Liu and Jun Zhao}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2510.19176}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19176}, }