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cs.CL2026
Forking Fast: Efficiently Estimating Uncertainty Dynamics in Text Generation
Eric Bigelow, Amir Zur, Satchel Grant +7
LLM reasoning is stochastic, and so understanding a model requires grappling with the distribution of reasoning chains that it might produce for a given question, i.e., its uncerta…
cs.CL2026
Reasoning Theater: Disentangling Model Beliefs from Chain-of-Thought
Siddharth Boppana, Annabel Ma, Max Loeffler +5
We provide evidence of performative chain-of-thought (CoT) in reasoning models, where a model becomes strongly confident in its final answer, but continues generating tokens withou…