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When Chain-of-Thought Fails, the Solution Hides in the Hidden States

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Main Authors:	Mehrafarin, Houman, Parekh, Amit, Konstas, Ioannis
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computation and Language Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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