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Characterizing the role of reasoning tokens in large language models as state over tokens

Nature Machine Intelligence, Published online: 07 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s42256-026-01303-y When large language models ‘reason’ about a problem, they might still solve it differently from what their reasoning transcript suggest. In this Perspective, Levy et al. describe how one can start investi…

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    Characterizing the role of reasoning tokens in large language models as state over tokens

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