When chain-of-thought helps and when it hurts: an empirical investigation of the serial-depth bottleneck in LLM reasoning
Read the original at arxiv.org→arXiv:2608.09942v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: It is widely assumed that chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting universally improves LLM reasoning. We investigate this through the conceptual framework of the H_dp...
Original headline: "When Chain-of-Thought Helps and When It Hurts: An Empirical Investigation of the Serial-Depth Bottleneck in LLM Reasoning"
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