Silent Tokens, Loud Effects: Padding in LLMs — mentioned by dist-epoch

Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:12:48 GMT

Since you're already setup, try adding padding to the input prompt. Add 1000 dots "." after the question, this provides extra space where to reason about the problem. It's not as good as real reasoning, since it's not recursive, but it does improve the quality. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01238

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Silent Tokens, Loud Effects: Padding in LLMs — mentioned by dist-epoch