Bypassing the Rationale: Causal Auditing of Implicit Reasoning in Language Models
arXiv:2602.03994v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting is widely used as a reasoning aid and is often treated as a transparency mechanism. Yet behavioral gains under CoT do not imply that the model's internal…
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AuthorAnish Sathyanarayanan, Aditya Nagarsekar, Aarush Rathore