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PublishedJuly 22, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Measuring and Mitigating Post-hoc Rationalization in Reverse Chain-of-Thought Generation
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arXiv:2602.14469v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reverse Chain-of-Thought Generation (RCG) synthesizes reasoning traces from query-answer pairs, but answer-visible generation can justify a pre-committed answer rather than derive it. This post-hoc rationalization creates a train-inference mismatch
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