Follow-up plot: Fable 5.1 always uses CoT for large multiplications, leaving small ones in its no-thinking blind spot

maksym_andr · x · 2026-09-17

A follow-up plot to the Fable 5.1 multiplication blind-spot finding: it shows the share of calls answered without thinking. For large enough multiplications the model always chooses to use CoT first, while small multiplications fall in the zone where it skips reasoning — landing near 0% accuracy and confirming the adaptive-thinking failure explanation.

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