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Do Latent-CoT Models Think Step-by-Step? A Mechanistic Study on Sequential Reasoning Tasks

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Main Authors:	Liang, Jia, Pan, Liangming
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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