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Hongbo Ma

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Preprint Aug 2026

Constraint-First Reasoning: A Training-Free Protocol for Exploiting Answer-Space Constraints in Mathematical Problem Solving

This work introduces Constraint-First Reasoning (CFR), a training-free two-stage prompting protocol that improves direct CoT on multiple backbones and positions CFR as a targeted test-time intervention whose benefit depends on recoverable constraints and reliable Stage 1 extraction.

Hongbo Ma, Bang Yang, Y. Cheng et al. · 0 citations