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Internal Chain-of-Thought: Empirical Evidence for Layer-wise Subtask Scheduling in LLMs

Zhipeng Yang, Junzhuo Li, Siyu Xia, Xuming Hu

Presents evidence that transformer layers schedule intermediate subtasks internally, offering a layer-wise view of implicit reasoning.

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arXiv:2505.14530 · Initial submission: 2025-05-20

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