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Academia is divided over whether chain-of-thought truly reflects a model's internal computation, with research indicating that the reasoning text output by models sometimes resembles post-hoc rationalization rather than genuine decision-making basis.
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Visualize and Edit AI Reasoning Chains: Making LLM Thinking Transparent and Controllable
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