Are Stated Reasoning Steps Causally Load-Bearing?
arXiv:2609.27038v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain-of-thought (CoT) monitoring assumes that the reasoning a model writes reflects the computation that directly produces its answer. Previous faithfulness metrics have been predominantly behavioral, as they simply edit the reasoning text and observ…
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Are Stated Reasoning Steps Causally Load-Bearing?