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Analysing Chain of Thought Dynamics: Active Guidance or Unfaithful Post-hoc Rationalisation?

As of 7 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 37 of 37 outbound references and 3 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2508.19827.

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This paper cites Chain-of-Thought Reasoning In The Wild Is Not Always Faithful.

Analysing Chain of Thought Dynamics: Active Guidance or Unfaithful Post-hoc Rationalisation? Chain-of-Thought Reasoning In The Wild Is Not Always Faithful

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This paper cites Gaizauskas, and Zhixue Zhao.

Analysing Chain of Thought Dynamics: Active Guidance or Unfaithful Post-hoc Rationalisation? Gaizauskas, and Zhixue Zhao

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This paper cites Are DeepSeek R1 And Other Reasoning Models More Faithful?.

Analysing Chain of Thought Dynamics: Active Guidance or Unfaithful Post-hoc Rationalisation? Are DeepSeek R1 And Other Reasoning Models More Faithful?

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Analysing Chain of Thought Dynamics: Active Guidance or Unfaithful Post-hoc Rationalisation? Truthful or Fabricated? Using Causal Attribution to Mitigate Reward Hacking in Explanations

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This paper cites Gonzalez, Hao Zhang, and Ion Stoica.

Analysing Chain of Thought Dynamics: Active Guidance or Unfaithful Post-hoc Rationalisation? Gonzalez, Hao Zhang, and Ion Stoica

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Analysing Chain of Thought Dynamics: Active Guidance or Unfaithful Post-hoc Rationalisation? Measuring Faithfulness in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

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Reward Modeling for Reinforcement Learning-Based LLM Reasoning: Design, Challenges, and Evaluation cites this paper.

Reward Modeling for Reinforcement Learning-Based LLM Reasoning: Design, Challenges, and Evaluation Analysing Chain of Thought Dynamics: Active Guidance or Unfaithful Post-hoc Rationalisation?

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Faithful or Fabricated? A Causal Framework for Rationalization Bias in LLM Judges cites this paper.

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Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened cites this paper.

Phantom Guardrails: When Self-Improving Agent Harnesses Fix Failures That Never Happened Analysing Chain of Thought Dynamics: Active Guidance or Unfaithful Post-hoc Rationalisation?

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