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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation

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This paper cites How far can transformers reason? T he locality barrier and inductive scratchpad.

Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation How far can transformers reason? T he locality barrier and inductive scratchpad

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Beltr\' a n and C

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Graph of thoughts: solving elaborate problems with large language models

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This paper cites Multi-scale metastable dynamics and the asymptotic stationary distribution of perturbed M arkov chains.

Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Multi-scale metastable dynamics and the asymptotic stationary distribution of perturbed M arkov chains

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This paper cites Understanding in-context learning in transformers and LLM s by learning to learn discrete functions.

Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Understanding in-context learning in transformers and LLM s by learning to learn discrete functions

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This paper cites Metastable states, quasi-stationary distributions and soft measures.

Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Metastable states, quasi-stationary distributions and soft measures

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Metastability and low lying spectra in reversible M arkov chains

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation On using extended statistical queries to avoid membership queries

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This paper cites Exploration by random network distillation.

Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Exploration by random network distillation

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Tighter bounds on the expressivity of transformer encoders

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Metastability for general dynamics with rare transitions: escape time and critical configurations

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation The Llama 3 Herd of Models

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Edelman, eran malach, and Surbhi Goel

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Unresolved cited work

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation A general characterization of the statistical query complexity

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Towards revealing the mystery behind chain of thought: a theoretical perspective

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Alphazero-like Tree-Search can Guide Large Language Model Decoding and Training

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Fernandez, F

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Asymptotically exponential hitting times and metastability: A pathwise approach without reversibility

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation An SVD approach to identifying metastable states of Markov chains

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Stream of Search (SoS): Learning to Search in Language

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Training Compute-Optimal Large Language Models

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Distilling Step-by-Step! Outperforming Larger Language Models with Less Training Data and Smaller Model Sizes

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Unveiling the Statistical Foundations of Chain-of-Thought Prompting Methods

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation From self-attention to M arkov models: unveiling the dynamics of generative transformers

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation A robust spectral method for finding lumpings and meta-stable states of non-reversible M arkov chains

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation OpenAI o1 System Card

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Risk and parameter convergence of logistic regression

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Scaling Scaling Laws with Board Games

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Thinking, fast and slow

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Efficient noise-tolerant learning from statistical queries

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Transformers Provably Solve Parity Efficiently with Chain of Thought

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Kimi k1.5: Scaling Reinforcement Learning with LLMs

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Training Language Models to Self-Correct via Reinforcement Learning

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Unresolved cited work

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Metastable Markov chains

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Metastability of finite state M arkov chains: A recursive procedure to identify slow variables for model reduction

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Markov Chains and Mixing Times

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation How do nonlinear transformers acquire generalization-guaranteed CoT ability? In High-dimensional Learning Dynamics 2024: The Emergence of Structure and Reasoning, 2024 a

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Dissecting chain-of-thought: compositionality through in-context filtering and learning

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Chain of Thought Empowers Transformers to Solve Inherently Serial Problems

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Let's Verify Step by Step

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Markov chain decomposition for convergence rate analysis

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Attention with Markov: A Framework for Principled Analysis of Transformers via Markov Chains

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation The Expressive Power of Transformers with Chain of Thought

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation The dondition of a finite M arkov chain and perturbation bounds for the limiting probabilities

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation How Transformers Learn Causal Structure with Gradient Descent

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Show Your Work: Scratchpads for Intermediate Computation with Language Models

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Spinning up: proximal policy optimization ( PPO ), 2018

Reference 54

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Concentration inequalities for Markov chains by Marton couplings and spectral methods

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Improving language understanding by generative pre-training

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Understanding Transformer Reasoning Capabilities via Graph Algorithms

Reference 57

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Transformers, parallel computation, and logarithmic depth

Reference 58

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms

Reference 59

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Failures of gradient-based deep learning

Reference 60

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Distribution-specific hardness of learning neural networks

Reference 61

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Distilling Reasoning Capabilities into Smaller Language Models

Reference 62

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and G o through self-play

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Scaling LLM Test-Time Compute Optimally can be More Effective than Scaling Model Parameters

Reference 64

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation On an SVD-based algorithm for identifying meta-stable states of Markov chains

Reference 65

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Solving olympiad geometry without human demonstrations

Reference 66

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Solving math word problems with process- and outcome-based feedback

Reference 67

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Chain-of-thought prompting elicits reasoning in large language models

Reference 68

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation From Sparse Dependence to Sparse Attention: Unveiling How Chain-of-Thought Enhances Transformer Sample Efficiency

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This paper cites An algorithm for computing stochastically stable distributions with applications to mltiagent learning in repeated games.

Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation An algorithm for computing stochastically stable distributions with applications to mltiagent learning in repeated games

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Estimating the Mixing Time of Ergodic Markov Chains

Reference 71

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Inference Scaling Laws: An Empirical Analysis of Compute-Optimal Inference for Problem-Solving with Language Models

Reference 72

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Towards System 2 Reasoning in LLMs: Learning How to Think With Meta Chain-of-Thought

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Monte Carlo Tree Search Boosts Reasoning via Iterative Preference Learning

Reference 74

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation What Can Neural Networks Reason About?

Reference 75

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Tree of thoughts: deliberate problem solving with large language models

Reference 76

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Large Language Models as Markov Chains

Reference 77

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Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation Star: bootstrapping reasoning with reasoning

Reference 78

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From System 1 to System 2: A Survey of Reasoning Large Language Models Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation

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The Benefits of Temporal Correlations: SGD Learns k-Juntas from Random Walks Efficiently Metastable Dynamics of Chain-of-Thought Reasoning: Provable Benefits of Search, RL and Distillation

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