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Quantifying the Necessity of Chain of Thought through Opaque Serial Depth

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Main Authors:	Brown-Cohen, Jonah, Lindner, David, Shah, Rohin
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Artificial Intelligence
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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