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PublishedNovember 2, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Thinking Inertia: LLMs Keep Thinking When Told Not To
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arXiv:2610.11765v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly ship with explicit "thinking modes", yet their counterpart, "no-thinking", has received far less attention. We study LLMs' no-thinking behavior along two axes. a. How to measure no-thinking? Prior work typi
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