ARM2: Adaptive Reasoning Model with Vision Understanding and Executable Code

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Authors: Jian Hua Xie, Zhendong Chu, Aoxiao Zhong, Kai Zhang, Mingzhe Han, Xing Fan, Jialie Shen, Qingsong Wen
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Abstract

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) often suffer from the "over-thinking" problem, generating unnecessarily long reasoning on simple tasks.Some strategies have been proposed to mitigate this issue, such as length penalties or routing mechanisms, but they are typically heuristic and task-specific, lacking a general framework for adaptive reasoning.In this paper, we present ARM2, a unified model that adaptively balances reasoning performance and efficiency across multiple formats through a reinforcement learning framework augmented with length-aware optimization.Beyond conventional natural language inference, ARM2 integrates vision understanding, extending its applicability to multimodal.Moreover, ARM2 integrates executable code into reasoning, enabling substantial reductions in token cost while preserving task performance compared to long CoT.Experiments demonstrate that ARM2 achieves performance on par with traditional reasoning models trained with GRPO, while reducing token usage by over 70% on average.We further conduct extensive analyses to validate the effectiveness of ARM2 and the soundness of its design.All the code and resources are released on Github.

Fields of Study & Subjects

AI-based Problem Solving and Planning Artificial Intelligence in Games

Publication details

Journal / source
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026
Publisher
Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages
27392–27405
Publication date
1 January 2026
Language
EN