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What Actually Happens When a Transformer Thinks Step by Step: The Mechanics of Chain-of-Thought

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What Actually Happens When a Transformer Thinks Step by Step: The Mechanics of Chain-of-Thought You've seen it work. Add "Let's think step by step" to a prompt and the model suddenly solves math problems it couldn't touch before. The output looks like reasoning — intermediate steps, logical progres…

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  1. 2026-10-26 12:40 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    What Actually Happens When a Transformer Thinks Step by Step: The Mechanics of Chain-of-Thought

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