Re:Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in the Wild Is Not Always Fait...
by flyingpumba on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @03:55PM
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First author here, surprised to see the paper in HN! :)
When doing the paper we noticed that models are very good at generating post-hoc plausible CoT, which to me knowledge can happen quite often with relatively easy tasks.
When doing the paper we noticed that models are very good at generating post-hoc plausible CoT, which to me knowledge can happen quite often with relatively easy tasks.
You might be interested in reading this other paper that came out after ours: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05246