Post-Hoc Reasoning in Chain of Thought: Decoding and Steering Pre-Committed Answers — mentioned by shawntan

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:49:05 GMT

For the research focused, there are some references in my blogpost here on what kinds of computational problems minimally require how much CoT to solve: https://blog.wtf.sg/posts/2023-02-03-the-new-xor-problem/ Notably Will Merrill's work: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07923 As for how universal transformers (looping transformers, but everyone has since forgotten prior work) will affect this, Will Merrill (again) has a paper here (https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.03961) that discusses exactly this. The original universal transformers is called "universal" because if you allow for per-token looping…

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Post-Hoc Reasoning in Chain of Thought: Decoding and Steering Pre-Committed Answers — mentioned by shawntan