TRIDENT: Thought-based Reasoning and Improvement through Deep Exploration of Neuronal Trees

Authors:Shivansh Puri, Abhisek Khandelwal, Vedant Joshi, Akash Yadav
Published:2025

Overview

TRIDENT is a self-improving reasoning framework that treats reasoning as a graph search process rather than a single chain of thought. It explores multiple reasoning paths using Tree-of-Thoughts and represents them as a structured thought graph. A Graph Neural Network encodes this graph and predicts a promise score to guide which reasoning branches to expand or prune. This learned verification is more reliable than raw generation, making path selection efficient and accurate. A multi-agent policy balances exploration, backtracking, and self-reflection to avoid dead ends and mode collapse. Adaptive early stopping reduces compute by halting search when reasoning paths converge or reach high confidence. TRIDENT generates its own training data by identifying high-variance problems where the model is inconsistent. Successful reasoning traces are distilled without human annotation. The model is improved via LoRA-based fine-tuning with stabilized rewards. Overall, TRIDENT shows that algorithmic search can significantly amplify the reasoning ability of small language models.

Research Areas

AIReasoningGraph Neural NetworksTree-of-ThoughtsMulti-Agent SystemsSelf-Improving AILoRA Fine-tuning

Key Insights

Advanced AI Architecture

Leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning and neural network technologies

Intelligent Systems

Multi-agent frameworks enabling complex problem-solving and optimization

Practical Implementation

Real-world applications and deployment strategies for various domains

Performance & Scale

Optimized for high-performance computing and large-scale applications

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