Study Reveals LLM CoT Disconnect: Hidden Reasoning Traces Differ from Displayed Summaries
rao2z · x · 2026-08-13
Recent discussions on Large Language Model Chain-of-Thought (CoT) highlight a significant disconnect between the models' hidden internal reasoning traces and the final summaries presented to users.
This observation aligns with findings from recent papers like Stealing Reasoning Traces, further confirming the existing challenges in LLM output transparency and interpretability.
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