{
  "id": "2411.15862",
  "title": "Do LLMs Really Think Step-by-step In Implicit Reasoning?",
  "authors": "Yijiong Yu",
  "first_public": "2024-11-24",
  "venue": "arXiv",
  "arxiv": "2411.15862",
  "paper_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15862",
  "lens": [
    "analysis"
  ],
  "representation": [
    "hidden-state"
  ],
  "computation": [
    "depth-wise"
  ],
  "training": [
    "analysis-only"
  ],
  "questions": [
    "evaluation",
    "limitations",
    "interpretability"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "empirical",
    "boundary"
  ],
  "modality": [
    "symbolic"
  ],
  "summary": "Tests whether successful implicit reasoning reflects an internal step-by-step procedure and documents where that interpretation fails.",
  "provenance": "Primary-source literature search, 2026-09-04",
  "author_names": [
    "Yijiong Yu"
  ],
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  "citation_date": "2024-11-24",
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