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most citedPosition: Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces!

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Position: Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces!

Subbarao Kambhampati, Karthik Valmeekam, Siddhant Bhambri +6

Intermediate token generation (ITG), where a model produces output before the solution, has become a standard method to improve the performance of language models on reasoning task…

cs.AI2025

Performative Thinking? The Brittle Correlation Between CoT Length and Problem Complexity

Vardhan Palod, Karthik Valmeekam, Kaya Stechly +1

Intermediate token generation (ITG), where a model produces output before the solution, has been proposed as a method to improve the performance of language models on reasoning tas…

cs.AI2025

Chain of Thoughtlessness? An Analysis of CoT in Planning

Kaya Stechly, Karthik Valmeekam, Subbarao Kambhampati

Large language model (LLM) performance on reasoning problems typically does not generalize out of distribution. Previous work has claimed that this can be mitigated with chain of t…

cs.AI2024

Planning in Strawberry Fields: Evaluating and Improving the Planning and Scheduling Capabilities of LRM o1

Karthik Valmeekam, Kaya Stechly, Atharva Gundawar +1

The ability to plan a course of action that achieves a desired state of affairs has long been considered a core competence of intelligent agents and has been an integral part of AI…

cs.AI2024

LLMs Still Can't Plan; Can LRMs? A Preliminary Evaluation of OpenAI's o1 on PlanBench

Karthik Valmeekam, Kaya Stechly, Subbarao Kambhampati

The ability to plan a course of action that achieves a desired state of affairs has long been considered a core competence of intelligent agents and has been an integral part of AI…

cs.AI2024

On the Self-Verification Limitations of Large Language Models on Reasoning and Planning Tasks

Kaya Stechly, Karthik Valmeekam, Subbarao Kambhampati

There has been considerable divergence of opinion on the reasoning abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). While the initial optimism that reasoning might emerge automatically w…