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Don't Overthink it. Preferring Shorter Thinking Chains for Improved LLM Reasoning

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Main Authors:	Hassid, Michael, Synnaeve, Gabriel, Adi, Yossi, Schwartz, Roy
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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