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May 18, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

ICML 2026: From Single‑Threaded Thinking to Native Parallel Reasoning in Agents

The paper introduces Native Parallel Reasoner (NPR), a framework that lets language agents generate and maintain multiple reasoning paths using a three‑stage self‑distillation and parallel reinforcement‑learning training paradigm, achieving up to 4.6× speedup and significant accuracy gains across eight reasoning benchmarks.