Is Token Confidence Just Chain Length? A Signal-Processing Audit of Reasoning Traces
arXiv:2610.36709v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reasoning language models answer math problems by writing long chains of thought, and sampling many chains per problem and taking a majority vote raises accuracy at a large cost in generated text. A popular way to cut that cost scores each chain by th…
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Is Token Confidence Just Chain Length? A Signal-Processing Audit of Reasoning Traces