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PublishedMay 11, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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When Does a Language Model Commit? A Finite-Answer Theory of Pre-Verbalization Commitment
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arXiv:2605.06723v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language models often generate reasoning before giving a final answer, but the visible answer does not reveal when the model's answer preference became stable. We study this question through a narrow computable object: \emph{finite-answer preference st
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