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Is Chain-of-Thought Really Not Explainability? Chain-of-Thought Can Be Faithful without Hint Verbalization

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Main Authors:	Zaman, Kerem, Srivastava, Shashank
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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