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Can Confidence Estimates Decide When Chain-of-Thought Is Necessary for LLMs?

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Main Authors:	Lewis-Lim, Samuel, Tan, Xingwei, Zhao, Zhixue, Aletras, Nikolaos
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Computation and Language
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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