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On the Hardness of Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models

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On the Impact of Fine-Tuning on Chain-of-Thought Reasoning cites this paper.

On the Impact of Fine-Tuning on Chain-of-Thought Reasoning On the Hardness of Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models

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Chain-of-Thought in Large Language Models: Decoding, Projection, and Activation cites this paper.

Chain-of-Thought in Large Language Models: Decoding, Projection, and Activation On the Hardness of Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models

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OpenAI o1 System Card cites this paper.

OpenAI o1 System Card On the Hardness of Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models

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How Chain-of-Thought Works? Tracing Information Flow from Decoding, Projection, and Activation cites this paper.

How Chain-of-Thought Works? Tracing Information Flow from Decoding, Projection, and Activation On the Hardness of Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models

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Do Cognitively Interpretable Reasoning Traces Improve LLM Performance? cites this paper.

Do Cognitively Interpretable Reasoning Traces Improve LLM Performance? On the Hardness of Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models

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Parallel-R1: Towards Parallel Thinking via Reinforcement Learning cites this paper.

Parallel-R1: Towards Parallel Thinking via Reinforcement Learning On the Hardness of Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models

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Can Aha Moments Be Fake? Towards Quantifying Decorative and True Thinking in Chain-of-Thought cites this paper.

Can Aha Moments Be Fake? Towards Quantifying Decorative and True Thinking in Chain-of-Thought On the Hardness of Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models

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Can Aha Moments Be Fake? Towards Quantifying Decorative and True Thinking in Chain-of-Thought cites this paper.

Can Aha Moments Be Fake? Towards Quantifying Decorative and True Thinking in Chain-of-Thought On the Hardness of Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models

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Compared to What? Baselines and Metrics for Counterfactual Prompting cites this paper.

Compared to What? Baselines and Metrics for Counterfactual Prompting On the Hardness of Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models

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The Reasoning Trap: An Information-Theoretic Bound on Closed-System Multi-Step LLM Reasoning cites this paper.

The Reasoning Trap: An Information-Theoretic Bound on Closed-System Multi-Step LLM Reasoning On the Hardness of Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models

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Understanding Annotator Safety Policy with Interpretability cites this paper.

Understanding Annotator Safety Policy with Interpretability On the Hardness of Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models

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Reasoning emerges from constrained inference manifolds in large language models cites this paper.

Reasoning emerges from constrained inference manifolds in large language models On the Hardness of Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models

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Decomposing and Steering Functional Metacognition in Large Language Models cites this paper.

Decomposing and Steering Functional Metacognition in Large Language Models On the Hardness of Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models

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When Reasoning Traces Become Performative: Step-Level Evidence that Chain-of-Thought Is an Imperfect Oversight Channel cites this paper.

When Reasoning Traces Become Performative: Step-Level Evidence that Chain-of-Thought Is an Imperfect Oversight Channel On the Hardness of Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models

Reference 49

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Understanding and Mitigating Premature Confidence for Better LLM Reasoning cites this paper.

Understanding and Mitigating Premature Confidence for Better LLM Reasoning On the Hardness of Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models

Reference 28

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Forecasting Future Behavior as a Learning Task cites this paper.

Forecasting Future Behavior as a Learning Task On the Hardness of Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models

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HANSEL: Extracting Breadcrumbs from Web Agent Trajectories for Interactive Verification cites this paper.

HANSEL: Extracting Breadcrumbs from Web Agent Trajectories for Interactive Verification On the Hardness of Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models

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Decodable but Not Faithful: Coupling Natural-Language Rationales to Programmatic Verifiers cites this paper.

Decodable but Not Faithful: Coupling Natural-Language Rationales to Programmatic Verifiers On the Hardness of Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models

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To Isolate or to Score? Model-Adaptive Assessment for Cost-Efficient Multi-Agent RAG cites this paper.

To Isolate or to Score? Model-Adaptive Assessment for Cost-Efficient Multi-Agent RAG On the Hardness of Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models

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Graph-Native Reinforcement Learning Enables Traceable Scientific Hypothesis Generation through Conceptual Recombination cites this paper.

Graph-Native Reinforcement Learning Enables Traceable Scientific Hypothesis Generation through Conceptual Recombination On the Hardness of Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models

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CASE: Causal Alignment and Structural Enforcement for Improving Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness cites this paper.

CASE: Causal Alignment and Structural Enforcement for Improving Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness On the Hardness of Faithful Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Large Language Models

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