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Rethinking Thinking Tokens: Understanding Why They Underperform in Practice

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Main Authors:	Vennam, Sreeram, Valente, David, Herel, David, Kumaraguru, Ponnurangam
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2024
Subjects:	Computation and Language Machine Learning I.2.6
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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