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Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens

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Main Authors:	Zhao, Chengshuai, Tan, Zhen, Ma, Pingchuan, Li, Dawei, Jiang, Bohan, Wang, Yancheng, Yang, Yingzhen, Liu, Huan
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language Machine Learning
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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