Reading Between the Dots: Decoding Hidden Computation across Filler Tokens
arXiv:2607.03502v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Frontier LLMs can perform multi-step reasoning over content-free filler tokens like dots or counting sequences, producing correct answers with no visible chain-of-thought (CoT). This is a…
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Published4 h ago (Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:00:00 GMT)
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AuthorKaley Brauer, Claudio Mayrink Verdun, Samuel Marks