From decorative to load-bearing: task difficulty shapes the causal role of chain-of-thought
Read the original at arxiv.org→arXiv:2609.25366v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) monitoring is only meaningful if written reasoning causally constrains the answer. We introduce continuation-based causal testing, an...
Original headline: "From Decorative to Load-Bearing: Task Difficulty Shapes the Causal Role of Chain-of-Thought"
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