What Does Chain-of-Thought Entropy Measure? A Channel Audit of Scaffolding, Routing, and Content
arXiv:2609.25039v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Entropy over chain-of-thought tokens decides which tokens receive the policy gradient, which get pruned, and whether a run has collapsed, yet each such statistic reads a next-token distribution mixing three choices: whether to emit connective scaffold…
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- 2026-09-24 04:00 · arXiv stat.ML
What Does Chain-of-Thought Entropy Measure? A Channel Audit of Scaffolding, Routing, and Content