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PublishedOctober 1, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Targeted Retrieval, Compact Representations: How CoT Reasoning Improves Long-Context Counting
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arXiv:2609.38958v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have been rapidly improving in long-context tasks, powered by Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. However, the internal mechanisms underlying this improvement remain unclear. We investigate these mechanisms through a needle-i
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