Nature journal paper characterizes reasoning tokens in LLMs as state over tokens
lulzxdxdxd · reddit · 2026-10-11
A paper published in a Nature journal (DOI 10.1038/s42256-026-01303-y) proposes characterizing the reasoning tokens generated by large reasoning models as a form of state over the token sequence, offering a new theoretical lens on what chain-of-thought computation actually does. The Reddit post only links the paper without further details.
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