antirez Discusses CoT: Pre-training Key to LLM Reasoning

Developer antirez highlighted that pre-training gives LLMs the potential to benefit from Chain of Thought prompts even without specific CoT training. He described the mechanism as a combination of sampling search and state reasoning.

2026-08-07 ~ 2026-08-07 · 3 related posts

• antirez: Models Without CoT Training Still Benefit From Reasoning Prompts — antirez · 2026-08-07
• Pretraining Potential: Minimal SFT on Reasoning Traces Significantly Boosts LLM Thinking — antirez · 2026-08-07
• antirez on CoT Essence: A Mix of Sampling Search and State Reasoning — antirez · 2026-08-07