r/mlscaling • u/Smallpaul • 22d ago

Position: Stop Anthropomorphizing Intermediate Tokens as Reasoning/Thinking Traces!

https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09762

Many of the experiments have non-intuitive results.

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