Jiayu Ding
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2026
LongReasonArena: A Long Reasoning Benchmark for Large Language Models
Jiayu Ding | Shuming Ma | Lei Cui | Nanning Zheng | Furu Wei
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Jiayu Ding | Shuming Ma | Lei Cui | Nanning Zheng | Furu Wei
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Existing long-context benchmarks for Large Language Models (LLMs) focus on evaluating comprehension of long inputs, while overlooking the evaluation of long reasoning abilities. To address this gap, we introduce LongReasonArena, a benchmark specifically designed to assess the long reasoning capabilities of LLMs. Our tasks require models to solve problems by executing multi-step algorithms that reflect key aspects of long reasoning, such as retrieval and backtracking. By controlling the inputs, the required reasoning length can be arbitrarily scaled, reaching up to 1 million tokens of reasoning for the most challenging tasks. Extensive evaluation results demonstrate that LongReasonArena presents a significant challenge for both open-source and proprietary LLMs. For instance, even GPT-5 achieves only 27.8% accuracy on Level 3. Further analysis also reveals that the accuracy exhibits a linear decline with respect to the logarithm of the expected number of reasoning steps. Our code and data are available at https://github.com/LongReasonArena/LongReasonArena.