AINeutralarXiv – CS AI · 7h ago6/10
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LLM Reasoning Is Latent, Not the Chain of Thought
A new position paper challenges the prevailing assumption that large language models reason through explicit chain-of-thought outputs, arguing instead that reasoning occurs primarily in latent-state trajectories hidden within model computations. The research separates three confounded factors and proposes that current reasoning benchmarks and interpretability claims need fundamental reevaluation based on this distinction.