LLM reasoning failures split into committed (early lock-in) and persistent-uncertainty modes with distinct token-level signatures that hold across 23 model-dataset pairs in 20 of 23 falsifiable tests.
Why models know but don’t say: Chain-of-thought faithfulness diver- gence between thinking tokens and answers in open-weight reasoning models
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CoT traces align with internal answer commitment in only 61.9% of steps on average, dominated by confabulated continuations after commitment has stabilized.
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How Language Models Fail: Token-Level Signatures of Committed and Persistent Reasoning Failures
LLM reasoning failures split into committed (early lock-in) and persistent-uncertainty modes with distinct token-level signatures that hold across 23 model-dataset pairs in 20 of 23 falsifiable tests.
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When Reasoning Traces Become Performative: Step-Level Evidence that Chain-of-Thought Is an Imperfect Oversight Channel
CoT traces align with internal answer commitment in only 61.9% of steps on average, dominated by confabulated continuations after commitment has stabilized.