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PublishedJune 11, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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Position: Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces!
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arXiv:2504.09762v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Intermediate token generation (ITG), where a model produces output before the solution, has become a standard method to improve the performance of language models on reasoning tasks. These intermediate tokens have been called \say{reasoning traces}
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